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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Folkways recording than a concert stage. Some of the most magical moments on this latest album come when Burnside shuts off the incessant drum beat behind him and just, as they say, does his thing. Unfortunately, the dance element of Come On In hardly matches Burnside's bluesy croonings. Except on a few tracks like "Been Mistreated" and "Let My Baby Ride," where Burnside uses a real drum set rather than an electronic beat, the dance aspect sounds forced and awkward. Maybe blues really is nothing but dance music, but the rhythms of the Mississippi delta are not those...

Author: By David Kornhaber, | Title: Album Review: Come On In by R.L. Burnside | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...where signed artists come to a town near you to perform their album material. Put simply, next to the cozier, more covert settings of what we can loosely term the "underground," such shows are just weak-wack. Typical rap artists either stand on stage with nothing entertaining to deliver except the mere presence of their stardom (e.g., Jay-Z), or they riddle their acts with gimmicky stage props or too many cohorts (e.g., Nas, Wu-Tang). Or they repeat their tracks with genuine energy, but without anything you couldn't find in their albums (e.g., almost every other...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: Notes on the Beat | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...stretches are not enough. In an environment as manic as Harvard, maybe there is something more than mechanical to RSIs. "I hadn t ever heard of [RSI] before I developed it." Suleiman recalls. "All of a sudden people started talking about it and it literally became kind of trendy, except that it was real also, it was all so real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...stop-shopping future, and the No.1 cable company is already the No. 1 phone company. When it also has deals with the No. 1 software company and the Nos. 2 and 3 cable companies (Time Warner, behemoth parent of TIME Daily, and Comcast), and just about everybody else except the Baby Bells, its sounds great for AT&T. But maybe not so great for competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something's Buggin' Feds About New-Look Ma Bell | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

Stokes and Markovic stand together, wearingmatching bull's eye buttons. They say they havenot missed a single protest since the NATObombings began except for one weekend, when theywent to Washington, D.C. for a protest in front ofthe White House...

Author: By Alysson R. Ford, | Title: Area Residents Cope With Kosovo Crisis | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

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