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...appearance. The Conner boys probably weigh in at 500-plus pounds. Drummer Barrett Newman never looks too cool thrashing his parted afro coif. Gravelly voiced and stationary frontman Mark Lanegan stares blankly into the lights, oblivious to fanatics rushing about and pawing him. His self-conscious exhortation, "Narcotics. Do 'em. Share 'em. Love each other," was acknowledged by laughter from the crowd...
...CADILLACS NEVER DIE," OBSERVES the great trumpet player and immortal bopcat at the close of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac. "The finance company just fade 'em away." DIZZY GILLESPIE must never have had a brush with the collection agency: there is no fading, only gleam on Dizzy's Diamonds (Verve), a 3-CD collection spanning 1950 to 1964. Grouped into three broad grooves -- Big Band, small group and Afro-Cuban -- these 40 wondrous cuts show Dizzy setting the pace for some fast company, including Stan Getz, Charlie Parker and Bud Powell. The Big Band material blasts, the small-group sides jump...
Perhaps in an age of powerful computers and fast traveling information, we might as well get used to the idea that just about whatever we do--down to every little phone call we make--is ultimately discoverable by other people. Privacy? Freedom? Forget 'em. They're outta here...
...more of those, entirely your decision of course, those Vulture 13 heat-seeking fighter planes with the can openers attached. You could use 'em, right...
...probably due less to political calculation than to dramatic necessity. Artists tend to gravitate toward humanistic concerns rather than institutional ones; pitting an underdog against the system always makes for a better story. This is not necessarily proof of liberal bias any more than the proliferation of TV shoot-'em-ups means that Hollywood producers support the N.R.A...