Word: gigging
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...find Barry Bonds' quest for the homerun record diverting in the least, and that's not (just) because it?s Barry Bonds. I didn't watch any football over the weekend, and since the good folks here at Time.com aren't forcing me to do my Monday morning sports gig here, but are giving me dispensation to write these occasional updates on life in New York instead, I'm indulging myself...
...Dutton liked Johnson's song Rodeo Clowns so much that he asked Johnson to record it with him for the 1999 album Philadelphonic. When Rodeo Clowns became the album's only hit, Johnson found himself on the radar of several major record labels. "I had a pretty good gig, the surf-film gig," he says. "I had a lot of fun, and I could pay my bills, which is all I was really concerned with. So when [record] people would ask me if I was willing to give up the surf-film thing or if I would give up surfing...
...hate music--are on the upswing. Among the label's top markets: France, Greece, Poland and Germany--despite German hate-speech laws. The Resistance website reflects the label's internationalist bent, promoting a concert in Bologna, Italy, with hate-rockers from across the Continent, and an "Adolf Hitler Memorial Gig" in Serbia...
...rock change the world? The image most of the public has of rockers is that of drive-by dilettantes who throw money at a problem and then limo off to the next gig. U2 is taken more seriously because it has lasted longer than almost every other rock act on the scene--so its commitment to social causes seems, well, more committed. "Rock music can change things. I know that it changed our lives," says Bono. "Rock is really about the transcendent feeling. There's life in the form. I still think that rock music is the only music that...
TIMOTHY BOTTOMS Gig is up as Prez after Comedy Central axes That's My Bush. We're stuck with Will Ferrell...