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...Three EPs by the Beta Band," announces John Cusack as the world-weary record store owner Rob in 'High Fidelity'. After he throws on the album's first track, "Dry the Rain," his face droops into an abstracted, too-cool-for-words expression and his head begins to nod appreciatively to the stately beat; soon the heads of self-conscious twenty something males all across his store do the same...
...Like The Three EPs, the Beta Band's new CD, 'Hot Shots II'(Astralwerks, July 17), is rock music to nod to. Over the history of rock 'n' roll, artists have demanded audiences do just about everything: dance, overthrow the government, indulge in controlled substances, fight for the right to party, find God; to obey all of those commands you'd have to be superhuman, or at least George W. Bush. Most people aren't willing to follow rock stars' orders anymore, and that might explain the burgeoning popularity of mellow British groups, such as the Beta Band, who demand...
...should be "Won," a cover of Harry Nilsson's 1968 composition "One" with a rap section thrown in. The juxtaposition of sixties pop with contemporary beats and rhymes is silly, self-consciously experimental, and ultimately beautiful -the Beta Band in a nut shell. If they and their fellow nod-inducers from across the Atlantic continue to churn out tunes of this caliber, we shall not want for lush, trippy ear candy in the '00s, and so we must be grateful for this miniature British invasion. Cohesive themes? Maxims to live by? Don't scratch your copy of Sgt. Peppers...
...Bush's first two appointments are in the pipeline. Tennessee banker Susan Bies was nominated last month, and Mark Olson, former staff director of the Senate Banking Committee and former president of the American Bankers Association, got his nod Tuesday. Both bankers...
...lifelong Democrat, Bloomberg saw he would never get the party's nod and switched eight months ago to the anemic New York G.O.P. He is hoping that his puckish smile, fabulous parties and high-wire life (he owns homes in Manhattan, London, Bermuda and Westchester County, flies his own helicopter and has dated women like Diana Ross) will outshine a Democratic field littered with smart but lackluster pols. And Bloomberg has proved that his dollars come with sense, hiring an A-list team of political veterans to finesse his policies and produce his image...