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According to a MIT press release, officials at the Massachusetts State Laboratory in Jamaica Plain carried out tests yesterday which showed that the powder tested negative for the anthrax bacterium...
...quest for change has often been a family affair: many top global-music performers, including Nigeria's Femi Kuti (son of Fela), Jamaica's Ziggy Marley (son of Bob) and Brazil's Max de Castro (son of Wilson Simonal), are the children of musical pioneers. Now, around the world, old traditions are being revived, remolded and returned to prominence by a new generation and new technology. In Tijuana, Mexico, young DJs are crossing traditional norteno (a polka-like music) with not-at-all-traditional techno to create a fresh genre, Nortec. In Bogota, Colombia, the rock duo Aterciopelados is mixing...
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers JAMAICA Ziggy, Stephen, Sharon and Cedella are keeping reggae's (and their father Bob's) positivity and purpose alive. Key album: Spirit of Music...
...TIME's pop-music critic, Farley was well primed for the assignment. In recent years he has traveled to Sweden, Brazil, Japan, the Bahamas, France, Mexico, Jamaica and Ireland, among other places. And, as a Jamaican native who moved to the U.S. as a kid, he was keenly attuned to the diversity of indigenous musical styles and traditions. Even so, Farley found he had a few things to learn about the international scene. When it came to Utada Hikaru, one of Japan's top singing stars, he "had always imagined her far away, in Tokyo or Kyoto. It was startling...
...think it gives me a natural sense of discipline and the ability to be a hard worker. If you look on the map, Haiti is right next to Santo Domingo, and at one time it was really one place, you know? Then you have Jamaica and Puerto Rico. I think musically all of that stuff in the Caribbean--the rhythm and the drums--you just get a natural sense of it. Sometimes, when I'm with my friends in the studio, I start to play salsa or merengue, and they're like, "Man, you're playing like you're from...