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...Breakdown, their first full-length album with major label Sub Pop, best known as the birthplace of Nirvana. Mixing rhythmic drive with some of the catchiest hooks around, Hot Hot Heat belt out a unique brand of rock so irresistibly fun and spastic that bodies demand to twist and jive along with it. This is dance music for punk rockers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...Yank played by Brendan Fraser. Even Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem, has a political agenda tucked inside its rappin'-Rocky plot. It says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. Eminem is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness, and his intimate scenes with the smart, tarty Brittany Murphy lack juice. But the guy has a face for movies. He's Tobey Maguire with 'tude. When Toronto movies couldn't find heroes, they searched for villains. Hitler, for instance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Goes to Canada | 9/27/2002 | See Source »

Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) directs the widely heralded acting debut of hip-hopper Eminem. This rappin' Rocky says that the white underclass should be as free as the black to mouth racist, misogynist, gay-bashing jive. The star is as yet no actor; he recedes into sullenness. But Eminem has a face made for movies. He's Tobey Maguire with 'tude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toronto, A Year Later | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...cheapie black-cast horror movie "Son of Ingagi," He was then hired by Dallas exhibitor Al Sack to write and direct films, apparently with a minimum of front-office interference. In the 40s he made nine or ten of them: oddball melodramas ("Girl in Room 20"), low-octane jive musicals ("Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.," "Juke Joint") and - rare in race movies - religious epics "(The Blood of Jesus," "Go Down, Death," "Of One Blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Cinema: Micheaux Must Go On | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Did Video Kill the Rap CD? | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

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