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...acts. "As a result, bands don't have the fan base they would normally develop by touring--they don't have a chance to build an audience. MTV also burns out its acts. They take alternative bands and play them to death." Example: semialternative pop-folk singer Sheryl Crow. Videos from her first album, Tuesday Night Music Club, were as inescapable as death, taxes and junk mail on AOL. By the time she released her new album, Sheryl Crow, a lot of people seemed sick of her--sales of her sophomore album have been underwhelming. And it hasn't helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: WAITING FOR THE NEXT BIG THING | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...billion total. Even if that number were to grow to 10% by 2000, as Jupiter predicts, most of the revenue is likely to end up in the pockets of the majors. Al Cafaro, president of A&M records, doesn't seem worried about losing Sting or Sheryl Crow anytime soon. "I don't want to say always," he says, "but generally artists want to reach as many people as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED FOR SOUND | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

Riddle, a history concentrator, said that periods of minority advancement are often followed by periods of setbacks, like the Jim Crow laws passed after the Civil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Reaction Mixed to Passing of Prop. 209 | 11/8/1996 | See Source »

Yellowtail, a member of the Crow tribe, wants to become Montana's first Native American in Congress. He grew up with no running water, no electricity and no telephone. A former EPA administrator, he has also overcome revelations about past indiscretions--being temporarily expelled from Dartmouth for stealing and failing to make child-support payments in the late 1970s--and enjoyed a lead in the polls going into the home stretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MONTANA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Charity makes strange stagefellows. SHERYL CROW and LUCIANO PAVAROTTI dipped into each other's arias of expertise for Pavarotti and Friends for War Child, a concert recording that's intended to raise money for children in war-torn areas. Crow gamely attempted a duet from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Pavarotti almost as bravely launched into Holy Mother with Eric Clapton, Live Like Horses with Elton John and New York, New York with Liza Minnelli. The album's almost worth a listen just to hear him go for the big notes in "Myyyy little town blooos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 28, 1996 | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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