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...that reflects the been-there-done-that milieu of early '00s Manhattan prep school youth rather than the conspicuously aggravated, dope-addled CBGBs crowd of twenty-five years ago. My guess is The Strokes would sooner die than hold forth with a Patti Smith-style poetry-reading-over-extended-jam-session, a jazzy, Tom Verlaine guitar solo, or one of the Ramones' ceaseless power-chord assaults, the way a nostalgia act might. Gen Y kids that they are, they're way too self-contained, insufficiently grandiose for that sort of thing. And thank God - it's that approach...
...live audiences. She is big on poems themselves these days, performing them straight up, new and old, at all of her recent concerts. She prefaced her newest song, inaugurated Friday night, by reading two short poems by the poet Lucille Clifton. The new song is provocative, and incredibly verbose, jam packed with the kind of raw melodic vocal preaching that DiFranco fans have come to expect. Before reading Clifton’s poem Ani grinningly declared with typical candor, “I’ve always used poems as food, and I’ve been writing poetry before...
...planets are on a highway in the sky,” Sadler said. “Something gets backed up and there is a traffic jam, from our perspective...
...January Def Jam and Jive Records threw a joint press conference to congratulate themselves on their good fortune: Def Jam's top artist, rapper Jay-Z--the multimillion-selling kingpin of the genre--and Jive's top R.-and-B. singer, R. Kelly--whose schizoid canon runs between gospel-infused hits like I Believe I Can Fly and bedroom numbers on the order of Like a Freak--were collaborating on an album. Synergy isn't a science, but given the platinum pedigrees of both artists, the album, The Best of Both Worlds, could plausibly have become the first...
Kelly's label, Jive, blames the disappointing sales of The Best of Both Worlds on CD bootlegging and an industrywide depression. Def Jam and Jay-Z are not even making excuses: they're just fleeing the scene. Def Jam won't release photos of Jay-Z and R. Kelly together, and Jay-Z, through an intermediary, thanked the editor of Vibe magazine for removing him from a cover with Kelly. Elaborate plans for a video and tour have been scrapped. "We don't want any negative associations that might come with a video, any accusations or anything," says Def Jam...