Word: limpness
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...Limp Bizkit...
...place where the stars shopped--some of its earliest customers included members of Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys. Since then, the chain has kept its focus on professional musicians by maintaining an artist-relations staff to provide personal service to Willie Nelson, Run-D.M.C. and Limp Bizkit, among others--loaning them equipment and stocking the rare and vintage instruments they favor. The store's reputation as a hangout for pros creates a "cool factor" that is seductive to musical neophytes and serious hobbyists, says Sharon Zackfia, an analyst at William Blair...
...cathartic songs about Ron Laffitte, the A.-and-R. guy who signed and then abandoned Spoon--The Agony of Laffitte and Laffitte Don't Fail Me Now. Daniel kept on writing and shuffled the lineup a bit, and in one of those moments that make up for all the Limp Bizkits in the world, Spoon stumbled onto a sound of its own. Girls Can Tell, the 2001 reanimation of Spoon, was a brilliantly minimalist rock album about love (or the lack of it). It was hardened but not ironic, tense but not jagged, smart but not so smart that Daniel...
...can’t stop thinking that everyone in the room is staring at my obvious fraudulence, but really, no one has given me a second glance. I walk with a slight limp (due to a pulled quadriceps) and pray that it translates to a cocky strut. I can’t stop sneering...
Music has always been an industry, but these days, that’s all it is. From the manufactured rage of groups like Korn and Limp Bizkit, to the greasy puppy love of boy bands, the shameless narcissism of divas like Mariah Carey and the pseudo-bohemian Urban Outfitters rock of the Hives and the Strokes, the product is the same: a few catchy tunes and a sterile, hollow image...