Word: demos
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...ukulele player for the Mahina Stars, a group that plays Hawaiian pop and is well known in Japan. It was while studying in art school that he started a kitsch pop band called Flipper's Guitar with former junior-high buddy Kenji Ozawa (nephew of conductor Seiji Ozawa). A demo tape of theirs found its way to Polystar Records (where Oyamada is still based) and the duo were immediately signed...
...quiet time. Plainly, demonstrators had no stomach for a real confrontation with the heroes of Sept. 11; equally, it has been very clear from talking to representatives of NGOs that the events in Genoa, which led to one death, have persuaded them to stay away from any demo that was likely to be hijacked by anarchists and the Black Blocs. Some of us have been urging responsible NGOs to take such a position since the riots in Prague at the World Bank/IMF meetings in 2000; better late than never...
...content with his own unlikely act of self-creation, Moby has applied himself to reimagining the summer concert tour. Area: One, his dazzling, multigenre, multiact music festival, took to the road in Atlanta last week with the laudable goal of attracting not just a core demo of Bic-flicking heavy-metal geezers or profoundly dilated techno kids but everyone: teens, adults, blacks, whites--just plain music fans, in the old-timey sense...
...overcommercialized." Above all, producers and advertisers agree, placements need to be "organic"; an out-of-place product or overly enthusiastic shill (remember Colby gushing over the Pontiac Aztek's capacious luxury) breaks the spell. But organic is in the eye of the beholder. Slagle says PVI recently made a demo with a rerun of Bewitched, adding a box of SnackWell's cookies in the 1960s kitchen of Samantha and Darrin's nosy neighbors, the Kravitzes. "It absolutely fit in," he marvels. "They would be the sort of people who would eat SnackWell's." Samantha will always be in her time...
...Fallon, who was unimpressed by their early demo tapes, says it was the vigor of the band that attracted...