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...lives on and deserves to be heard. Simply put, it is the best rock release of the year so far. Like such cutting-edge performers as Beck, Tricky and Rage Against the Machine, Sublime draws confidently on the group's new CD from both alternative rock and avant-garde hip-hop, creating a sound that is sharp and soulful. The band also tosses reggae and ska (a faster, jerkier reggae precursor) into the sonic mix, resulting in songs that are hard to categorize and harder still to resist. While much of today's pop wallows in recycled schlock rock from...
California, home to Rancid and Sublime, is the hottest region for ska. There it neatly commingles with skateboarding culture (skateboards are to ska what flannel was to grunge). In fact, much of today's ska is chameleonic, blending with hip-hop (Sublime), pop (No Doubt) and punk (Rancid, Goldfinger). Rancid's Matt Freeman says the music is bigger than trends, and "whether [the attention] goes or stays, we'll still be around...
...blues has in our community? Blues is a result of the racism, poverty and hopelessness felt in the black ghetto, experiences Tigrett has never been familiar with. For the record, blues music was never ignored by the black community; it has simply manifested itself in different genres such as hip-hop, R. and B. (rhythm and blues) and gospel. Before Tigrett makes his billions off the blues tradition, maybe he should try to understand the music. Blues is a vital part of black history, and he can bet the black community will never forget its importance. EVANS RICHARDSON...
...launched last April featuring such blues artists as Lightnin' Hopkins and such gospel acts as Clarence Fountain & the Blind Boys of Alabama and Cissy Houston (Whitney's mom). This summer two HOB-produced concert tours will visit 30 cities each: one, a neosoul lineup headlined by the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees, starts July 22; and another featuring blues acts will hit the road July...
...like that of a subway performer rushing to finish a song and earn a few quarters before the train roars into the station. DiFranco's new CD, Dilate, is her best yet--her vocals and guitar work still seethe, but she's added atmospheric touches, such as a trippy hip-hop beat on a cover of the song Amazing Grace. Like Beck, the singer-songwriter whose single Loser was a surprise best seller two years ago, and whose exceptional new CD, Odelay, will be out June 18, DiFranco makes folk relevant and fresh by incorporating other genres...