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...Cash found a sympathetic producer in Rick Rubin, co-founder of the rock-and-rap label Def Jam. It was Rubin's inspiration to return Cash to his roots: the voice, a guitar and the sparest backing. The result was the four American albums. These CDs didn't go platinum--they barely went rhinestone. But they validated Cash's status and towering stature. The latest one, The Man Comes Around, proves to be the perfect send-off for an artist who was failing in everything but artistry. It's Cash's own elegy, eulogy and last words...
...stationing of so many well-armed troops in Kathmandu Valley has made some in the capital complacent. This week the Miss Nepal 2003 contest will go ahead as planned in Kathmandu. And in a bizarrely bold move, a new city-center nightclub, called Platinum, aimed specifically at Nepal's high society, is also due to open this month. "A lot of people still believe the risk is not real," says Bhandari, the media mogul. "There's a degree of denial. History tells us there are always parties and merriment just before regimes fall...
...Going for Platinum In "Liz Gets Girly" [July 21], you said that the feminist-indie-rock star Liz Phair is going pop to make her new album more commercial. Say it isn't so! I like my female rockers to sound angry?at people who have betrayed them and the guys who broke their hearts. Phair's CD Exile in Guyville was a hit because every woman could relate to it. It is one of my top-10 favorite albums of all time. Get with it, Liz, and get your fire back! Deborah C. Partee Fort Wayne...
...past year, Grohl has also played drums on every track of acclaimed albums by heavy-metal rockers Queens of the Stone Age, female singer-songwriter Cat Power and goth princes Killing Joke (whose first album in seven years, Killing Joke, is out this week). Grohl has also released a platinum-selling Foo Fighters record, performed with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello at the Grammys and been floated as a possible replacement for John Bonham on a Led Zeppelin reunion tour. "My everywhere-ness," Grohl says, "is kind of freakish--even...
November brings yet another Grohl collaboration, a self-produced album called Probot, on which he plays all the instruments while his favorite heavy-metal singers get the glory. "It's not a platinum seller; it's not going to change the world," he says. "It's just my tribute to all those guys I worshipped when I was 16." Meanwhile, the biggest of all drum cameos is still out there. "I have John Bonham tattoos all over my arms," he says of the drummer, who died in 1980. "I learned to be a drummer by listening to the Zeppelin catalog...