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...Islands and Australia. Meanwhile, Walker's line of punk rock lullabies is booming. In 2002, the expectant father was looking for some music his newborn son could fall sleep to, and was horrified by the choices on offer. So he set about rerecording his favorite punk tracks - including the Clash's White Riot and the Undertones' Teenage Kicks - as gentle instrumentals. The resulting album, Punk Rock Baby, sold 20,000 copies around the world and made fans out of Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder and Blondie guitarist Chris Stein. Walker has so far produced four follow-ups, including lullaby covers...
...discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful as the Clash, but it's a pretty impressive neighborhood for a debut...
...Jackson's trial began last week with testimony from the accuser's sister and others, who launched the prosecution's case that Jackson molested a 13-year-old boy at his Neverland Ranch. And courtroom watchers got their first good look at the legal teams that are set to clash...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Galileo and Pope Paul V. Thomas à Becket and Henry II. Encounters between great figures, especially when their world views clash, can create historical watersheds. Such an encounter, writes James R. Gaines, took place on a spring evening in 1747, when an aged Johann Sebastian Bach arrived at the court of Frederick the Great, ruler of Prussia. Frederick, a music lover with as deep a passion for the arts as for waging war, had summoned Bach in order to set him a musical challenge--one that Bach triumphantly met two weeks later when he presented Frederick with...
Summers characterized this tension in his National Bureau of Economic Research remarks as a “general clash between people’s legitimate family desires and employers’ current desire for high power and high intensity...