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...Chast: ''Mad About'' CD Covers Making a pointedly unself-serious attempt to attract new buyers, the classical-record label Deutsche Grammophon commissioned fey, funny cartoonist Chast to paint the covers for their Mad About series of reissues. The result: a charming new brand -- and a possible explanation of why CDs are exactly the size of cartoons...
...equipment in his bedroom in Brighton, England. Parton brought in a few local musicians to supplement his playing on his debut 2002 EP, released on the tiny Pickled Egg Records, and for the 2004 album “Thunder, Lighting, Strike!” released on the small-scale label Memphis Industries. In a hurried three weeks, “Thunder, Lighting, Strike!” transformed from a whiz-kid’s solo project to a full-band spectacle. When a booking agent arranged for The Go! Team to open for Franz Ferdinand in Sweden, Parton pulled together...
...fall into certain series. One such series, dominated by song titles beginning with “Alpha,” develops the narrative of a couple entwined in a mutually destructive and inescapable relationship. “Tallahassee,” the group’s first album for label 4AD, arrived in 2002 as a culmination of this series, a concept album that tracks their attempts to salvage a failed marriage and the eventual divorce...
...titled “Your Mom”), she began to write her own songs. Now she describes her music as on a “gradient between rock and folk.” Fitzgerald spent the next few years recording demos, and eventually signed with Jive Records, the label home to such icons as Britney Spears, *NSYNC and R. Kelly. “When I met with the president of Jive, I sat across from him and I wanted to tell him that he had ruined music for my generation and I wanted...
...medicine is a huge problem in Nigeria. Before Akunyili took over her post in 2001, a staggering 80% of the medications sold there were deficient in one way or another. Some contained less of the active ingredient than was specified on the label. Others were past their expiration date. Some were filled with inert lactose or powdered chalk. Still others were poison. In 1990 more than 100 Nigerian children died from a painkiller that had been made with toxic ethylene glycol instead of propylene glycol. In 2003 phony adrenaline led to the deaths of three children undergoing surgery...