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...Christopher John Farley. Reported by Jordan Bonfante and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...mature, well-crafted debut" is how TIME's Christopher John Farley describes the eponymously titled first album from the New York City-based alternative rhythm and blues duo Groove Theory. The album is remarkably consistent; every song amply lives up to the promise of the sweetly insinuating first single "Tell Me". Groove Theory is a restrained affair, with reservoirs of emotion. Singer-lyricist Amel Larrieux's voice is a placid soprano with an intriguing hint of hidden hurt that evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead...
...whole week. If in recent years Springsteen had lost touch with his proletarian passions, he's rediscovered them with "The Ghost of Tom Joad," a new collection of songs about desperate lives along the Mexican border. "This album has the power to haunt," says TIME's Christopher John Farley. "Springsteen's sound, which is somewhere between his stark 'Nebraska' album and his serenely wrenching hit 'Streets of Philadelphia, is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, a harmonica and a keyboard...
...Tupac Shakur. The decision followed Interscope's refusal to allow Warner Music Group to review lyrics for an upcoming rap record by Tha Dogg Pound. "The sale of Interscope is not going to reduce the amount of sex and violence in American culture," says music critic Christopher John Farley. "It is all around us: in the streets, on television, in movies. There is more sex in the Packwood diaries than in any record Snoop has released." Farley notes that the Time Warner decision may prove to be an opportunity for gangsta rappers to move beyond "self-defeating nonsense obscenity...
Michaels, meanwhile, has spent the summer overseeing SNL's most sweeping overhaul in a decade. After conducting nationwide auditions, he has hired five new cast members, most of them unknowns. Such stalwarts as Chris Farley and Adam Sandler will be gone. Except for a couple of lower-profile players (Mark McKinney and Molly Shannon), the only major returnees are Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald and David Spade, who will have his own regular commentary spot...