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...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 the '70s (Kiss...
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...
Jack O'Hara, the TV producer, hated to fly. In May, to cover the Preakness for ABC Sports, he drove 170 miles from New York to Maryland to avoid traveling what would have been a short hop by plane. But last week O'Hara had to go to Paris for the Tour de France--his last assignment after being pink-slipped by the network. To help ease his anxieties, ABC threw in two free tickets for his wife Janet and their daughter Caitlin...
...southern end of Los Angeles. Almost everywhere, the views of the Pacific are cluttered by the oil tankers, the container ships, the canneries and the flaming smokestacks that provide the jobs in this working-class town. But at Point Fermin there is a pretty little park where one can hop the crumbling concrete fence, stand at the edge of the cliffs, shut out the life-affirming sounds of dog walkers and picnickers and gaze out upon the Pacific without seeing any of that industrial ugliness. There is a clear view of nothingness from here, and that view is stunning...
...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, age 16 St. Louis, Missouri...