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...electronic musician who is definitely getting the nod these days is the American deejay-composer Moby. Most deejays a decade ago were faceless shadows lurking behind turntables. Now deejays associated with the rave scene--like Van Dyk, Armand Van Helden, Keoki and BT--are artists, celebrities, superstars. "If Stravinsky were alive today, this is the kind of music he'd make," says BT, who composed music for the rave movie Go (1999) as well as the PlayStation game Die Hard Trilogy. "It just affords you a broader sonic palette to work from...
...measure of creative people's achievement when their success allows them to be known by one name (Picasso, Yanni). But a musician from Minneapolis, Minn., did those titans one better, insisting that he be referred to only as an unpronounceable hieroglyphic. Since 1993, the man born PRINCE Rogers Nelson has refused to use his given name to protest the terms of his recording contract. Last week, however, the singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead...
...taking the red-eye flight back to Boston so that he can open for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with two other bands he is a part of (FinkFankFunk and one that is yet unnamed), the next day. Sandoval is excited about maybe one day being seen as a total musician, not just a physics concentrator who plays music on the side. “Everyone plays music on the side,” he says. It doesn’t hurt that he has reporters from his home town in Mount Prospect, Ill, calling him to write about the band...
...Earth" provides some expansive and impressive melodic inventions, while still maintaining a paradoxically loose and driving Latin feel. Everything emerges extremely ear-friendly, and while Schwartz doesn't provide extraordinary insights into old material, he does offer a varying array of comfortable, well-worn tunes. This is a musician who focusses on his strengths but also knows his own limits, leading to an easy and diverse sound...
Moreover, the new professorship, named in honor of renowned musician Quincy Jones, directly attests to the prominent position the Harvard Afro-American Studies Department holds in the field, as well as in academia as a whole. Several top-tier universities have Afro-American studies departments, making Time Warner's decision to entrust Harvard with its money symbolic of the University's unparalleled commitment to Afro-American studies over the past 10 years under President Neil L. Rudenstine's tenure...