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Folk music is all over the place these days. There's Beck with his hip-hop folk, Ani DiFranco with her punk-folk, and Jewel with her sexy, wet-lipped pop-folk. Relative to that lot, the veteran duo Indigo Girls and newcomer Laura Love sound almost like folk traditionalists...
...Indigo Girls have been so good for so long--they were formed in 1983--it's easy to yawn when they come out with yet another solid album. It's sort of like Michael Jordan scoring 30 points: unless he scores 50, is it really news? Still, Indigo Girls' pleasant new album, the Shaming of the Sun (Epic), represents a noteworthy step in the evolution of the pair, singer/songwriter/guitarists Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The Girls, who are both gay (but not a couple), became more open about their sexuality a few years ago, and on Sun their music seems...
...harmonica and funky guitar. Her topics are very coffeehouse--there's a pro-tree song--but there's also a sharp cover of Come As You Are that remakes Kurt Cobain's anguished alternative-rock classic into a plaintive, acoustic plea for self-acceptance. At their best, Love and Indigo Girls sidestep trends and go straight to the heart...
...player enlivened the voyage. Passing through New Jersey, the group played Bruce Springsteen. Other selections included Indigo Girls and the Top Gun soundtrack...
According to Rucker, other Ivy League schools receive allotments of as much as $25,000 from their college administrations. This money is used to sign better known bands such as the Indigo Girls, which played at the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, or No Doubt, which will play this year at Brown's Spring Weekend...