Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alternative Boston radio station WFNX (101.7 FM) proclaimed April 8th a day of "mourning" and arranged a Nirvana "A" to "Z" memorial to the punk cult hero. As over-kill, so to speak, they also promised to play a medley of songs by bands that Kurt thought were cool, including the Melvins and the Meat Puppets...
CmdrTaco loves the fast-chip story. Someone submitted the tip anonymously in the form of a link to a story about a new breed of microprocessors at a gaming site called FiringSquad. "An engineering sample of a 600-Mhz processor," says the Commander, reading. "Cool...
...churns down the school corridors to music that sounds like the theme for The Wizard of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West; students scatter rather than get caught in the laser beam of her cool rage. In history class she makes one think of Harry Potter's Professor Snape, so regal is her malevolence, so acute her gift for the demeaning remark that cuts through the skin of her best students and into their fragile egos. Her intellect has veered into artful cruelty. Her ambition has been curdled by this life sentence in a town she was dying...
...labels, has produced a dozen albums, each one featuring some sly subgenre mix, with all net profits going to the fight against AIDS. Red Hot's latest compilation, Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon (Bar/None), features music from Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Angola, etc.) crossed with clubland beats. Obscure? Maybe. Cool? Definitely...
...albums are not just good-hearted, they're also good listening--and almost always on the cutting edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...