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...want to be an overnight sensation in classical music these days, you'd best look the part. You can be moodily romantic like long-haired Argentinian guitarist Dominic Miller (signed up by BBC Worldwide to launch their Inversion label), sulkily sexy like the all-girl string quartet Bond (2 million albums sold and counting). Skittishly sexy is also fine, a la Myleene Klass, the English Popstars siren turned classical pianist (also signed by Universal, reportedly for €1.4 million-plus). Smoldering sulkiness is equally bankable, as bad-boy Croatian pianist Maksim is finding out (EMI has signed him for five...
...count on a teen following in Britain, but elsewhere she'll have to get by on talent. As a manufactured pop star she didn't last long, so it's unlikely she'll fare better with the classics. Commercial potential: $$ Artistry: Too soon to tell Dominic Miller Argentinian session guitarist and a favorite collaborator of Sting, he hit the classical charts earlier this year with Shapes - pop reworkings of classics by Beethoven, Bach, Elgar and Albinoni. When his album launched BBC Worldwide's Inversion label, rivals feared the label's built-in media access would mean unfair playtime. Sales might...
SILVERTIDE. Meet lead singer Walt Lafty, lead guitarist Nick Perri, rhythm guitarist Mark Melchiorre, bassist Brian Weaver and drummer Kevin Frank—five shaggy-haired time travelers hell-bent on resurrecting rock’n’roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August...
...Grohl is another rock god living his dream. At 21 he was drumming for Nirvana, and after front man Kurt Cobain's suicide, he moved center stage as guitarist and lead singer for the Foo Fighters. In the past year, Grohl has also played drums on every track of acclaimed albums by heavy-metal rockers Queens of the Stone Age, female singer-songwriter Cat Power and goth princes Killing Joke (whose first album in seven years, Killing Joke, is out this week). Grohl has also released a platinum-selling Foo Fighters record, performed with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello...
...like to say we split up," Hayman says of Hefner. "It's just that four or five albums is enough, unless there's something really new to do." Hefner's drummer and guitarist are pursuing solo projects, while Hayman and bassist John Morrison are the French. Why call a band the French? Hayman, who grew up in Essex, explains that due to the antipathy his countrymen have for their neighbors across the Channel, "it's a kind of litmus test of my audience." His audience - somewhere between big cult and the bottom of the pop charts - will be relieved...