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...Belle and Sebastian" percolated through fogged brains, and noiseless shock gave way to intense chatter. Some questioned the result, but most just wanted to know, "Who the hell are Belle and Sebastian?" One exec thought they might be a firm of music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group with a notorious aversion to the press hit the front pages. scots band in brits fix scandal, raged the tabloid Sun. Of course, there was no fix. The band...
Take the time I went in for my son's four-month check up. After the requisite poking and prodding, the doctor consulted my child's chart and casually noted that his head was growing very quickly and that we should "keep an eye on that." Then she was gone...
...would not be surprised if musicians like Dizzee Rascal (probably the most famous grime artist) continue to take this music far beyond the scope of contemporary rap. It is only a matter of time before some enterprising American producer waters down this sound and into a massive chart hit for a faceless dance-pop act, thereby blowing it up and clearing the genre for mainstream success. I’m looking forward to it. —Staff writer J. Samuel Abbott can be reached at abbott@fas.harvard.edu...
...lineup by the mid-90s—the era that saw Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G., and the “Gangsta-Funk” aesthetic attain success as pop music—and “The Dark Side” faded into obscurity. Jacoby speculates that the rapid chart ascendancy of rap music in the mid-90s was precisely why it fell out of favor with WHRB DJs. “I think the lack of interest in rap during those years was the result of there being no real underground hip-hop scene,” he says...
...purports to be based on the travels of Zheng He, an admiral who sailed throughout Asia and the east coast of Africa between 1405 and 1433. But Liu's map also shows the Americas, Australia and Europe, where Zheng He isn't known to have traveled. "The chart I bought," said Liu, "shows a completely different picture from those recorded in the history books...