Word: metallism
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...everyone will understand the appeal of Iowa (Roadrunner), the new CD from Des Moines band Slipknot that's currently No. 3 on the album charts. It helps to think of its lightning-fast heavy metal as a form of country. Merle Haggard never headbanged in a Halloween mask, as Slipknot does, but he sang about feeling trapped in the middle of nowhere. That's exactly what vocalist Corey Taylor is doing when he sings of his home state, "Relax, it's over...You can never leave...
...timing come together, one record company captures prevailing tastes in a way that enables it to define the musical essence of an era. Motown did so in the 1960s with soul; Def Jam followed in the '80s with rap; and Interscope ruled the mid-'90s by mixing rap and metal...
...site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience" and "Brazilia." Headbanger? Try "The Pit" (metal) or "Axis" (adult alternative). With sites like Live365.com that provide average Joes with the bandwidth to open up their record collection to thousands of listeners a day, and sites like indiePOPradio.com that link users to stations geared toward particular interests, the Web holds out the promise of delivering radio from...
That's where the Internet broadcasts of terrestrial stations come in. Alaskans can tune in to the online WFMU as easily as New Jerseyans and thereby subject themselves to a cabal of DJs whose interests include Somalian folk, Italian film scores and klezmer. For that matter, a metal fan from Beijing can log on to BBC.com and come across a Manchester drum-'n'-bass turntablist featured on the home page...
...story. The West seeds the world with metal oil barrels; the world sends them back as steel drums. For today's politically minded world musicians, this kind of appropriation is itself a political act, a direct echo of the challenge to non-Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki...