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...stupid garage-rock revival, which is probably why their debut album, Fire, is so much fun. The first single, Danger! High Voltage, went to No. 2 in England earlier this year thanks to a Gloria Gaynoresque bass line, electric-current sound effects and lyrics like "Fire in the disco! Fire in the Taco Bell!" The track has a ferocious vocal cameo from a purported auto mechanic named John S. O'Leary, who everyone insists is not Jack White of the White Stripes. The same Jack White who insists that his drummer is his sister, not his ex-wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brilliant Idiots | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...Killed. Sam (Mosquito) Bockarie, 40, West African warlord, former hairdresser and champion disco dancer; in a shootout with Liberian soldiers; near the Ivory Coast-Liberia border. A native of Sierra Leone, Bockarie was one of the most feared guerrilla fighters to emerge from the overlapping civil uprisings in West Africa. In March, a U.N.-backed special court investigating atrocities in Sierra Leone indicted Bockarie for crimes against humanity. In a 1999 interview with a wire service, he admitted, "I cannot tell how many people I have killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...Disco Science...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candy Plant To Shift From Sugar to Science | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...call it disco-science,” Steele says. “These areas need to be at the crossroads, where everyone has to walk through...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Candy Plant To Shift From Sugar to Science | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...Join forces with the aristocratic Trusticons to spread the virus of party and bullshit with superior sophistication.” This alliance will snip the last thread that connects them with hip-hop’s protest roots. Now, “instead of guns, they use lawyers and disco-balls...

Author: By Michael S. Hoffman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review | 4/4/2003 | See Source »

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