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...global music doesn't exclude America. After all, America's biggest rock star, Dave Matthews, is a white African; Japan's biggest pop star, Utada Hikaru, hails from Manhattan. The old-school term world music is a joke, a wedge, a way of separating English-language performers from the rest of the planet. But there has always been crossover. In 1958 Dean Martin scored a hit with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based...
...creative musicians more than some polished professionals. Formality was out. At one point Heck left the stage to go searching in his guitar case for the lyrics to a song he had written a few days before. A little later, with Second Act in the first strains of Dave Matthews Band’s “Tripping Billies,” Heck had to stop the music and confess that he had forgotten the first line. He asked if anyone knew what it was. From the audience came a loud shout, just after the music died...
...control was his approach to making music. As a child, Cobain insisted on taking guitar lessons and practiced diligently despite his later rehearsed claims to journalists that he disliked practicing and authority. Upon Cobain’s insistence, Nirvana went thorough a bevy of drummers before accepting the talented Dave Grohl as a permanent member, but was talking of firing Grohl towards the end of the band’s existence as the drummer tried to incorporate songs he had written into Nirvana’s sets. And despite the apathetic grunge prototype which Cobain attempted to purvey...
...recently read that Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb also thought he was star-crossed when it came to outstanding pitching feats. In consecutive starts in 1988, Stieb lost no-hitters with two outs in the ninth...
...Tenacious D worth listening to. Black assumes the voice of an array of comic characters on the album, from a sex-obsessed buffoon on "Kielbasa" to a lonely Don Juan rock star on "The Road" (the latter has been praised for its veracity by no less an expert than Dave Grohl, of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, who contributes drumming on the record.) He also manages to parody a swath of celebrated musicians by incorporating their stylistic trademarks into his songs: Joni Mitchell's upward swoop, the keening harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and, on an slow, instructional song whose...