Word: brazile
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Anxieties that Microsoft may not be in a penitent frame of mind emerged last month when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted at a press conference in Brazil that Microsoft had plenty of competition in the software business. Seeming to ignore the findings of a federal district court and a unanimous appeals court in this case, Ballmer told reporters, "I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells...
...Pato Fu BRAZIL Pop rock with a sense of humor and a charge of electronica. Key album: Televisao De Cachorro...
...TIME's pop-music critic, Farley was well primed for the assignment. In recent years he has traveled to Sweden, Brazil, Japan, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Jamaica and Ireland, among other places. And, as a Jamaican native who moved to the U.S. as a kid, he was keenly attuned to the diversity of indigenous musical styles and traditions. Even so, Farley found he had a few things to learn about the international scene. When it came to Utada Hikaru, one of Japan's top singing stars, he "had always imagined her far away, in Tokyo or Kyoto. It was startling...
...right: Brazilians were mixing local rhythms with international rock styles well before his father, Caetano Veloso, helped pioneer the Tropicalia movement in the '60s. And if Brazil continues to produce albums as delicate and emotionally complex as Music Typewriter, that country's music will occupy as honored a place in the 21st century as it did in the 20th...
...album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention to things like that," says Valensi. "It could be a trap, to believe what people write about you." The Strokes may be young, but they're clearly wise beyond their years...