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...these times," as Neil Young says. Or maybe it's the prevailing staleness of pop and the relentless assaults of rap. In any case, there is as much to celebrate in the sudden multiplicity of folk talent as there was at the Garden. Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready from Pearl Jam performed a ferocious version of Masters of War that demonstrated that the hardest rock has a strong and still vital folk lineage. Folk now can comfortably encompass the salty sensitivity and social speculation of Willie Nile's Hard Times in America (Polaris) as well as the rap-inflected rage...
...grungy tunes for independent labels like SST and Velvetone and endured an obscurity they never deserved. Even though their major label debut Uncle Anesthesia ranked high among the year's most critically acclaimed, the Trees' insolent musical attack forced them into the shadow of more accessible stars Nirvana and Pearl Jam, who stormed sales charts during the Seattle/Sub Pop Revolution...
...GREAT CATALAN CELLIST PABLO CASALS is rightly credited with elevating the cello to its royal status as a solo instrument, so it is only fitting that Pearl records pays him homage by beginning its six-CD set, The Recorded Cello: The History of the Cello on Record, with his evocative 1915 performance of Schumann's Traumerei. Among the 74 other masters represented here are Enrico Mainardi, whose version of Dvorak's Concerto in B minor is stately and deeply hued; and Gregor Piatigorsky, playing variations on Paganini with heart- skipping joy. All the tracks demonstrate the delicate timbres and subtle...
...their hour-plus set still featured their pioneering fusion of hardcore and metal--a hard, guitar-driven sound that has reached mainstream with such hands as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The audience responded to the music and Gipe's distinctive growl and wagging tongue with appropriate moshing and stage-diving in a bruising display of fan appreciation. At various times, band members jumped into the crowd and floated atop a sea of large, sweaty, tatooed arms...
...family flew to Seattle shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and were jailed for being non-U.S. citizens travelling from Japan. Shklar's father, an international banker, was able to secure their release through contacts in New York...