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Audioslave's self-titled debut (out Nov. 19) is a full-on rocker that mixes Rage's heavy-metal funk with Cornell's Zeppelin wail and tortured lyrics. It tests the bass on your stereo--and it's catchy too. But the main draw is two distinct platinum parts coming together in mid-career. Cornell, who had a solo act going when he fielded Morello's call, did not want to join a political band. "Before we played music together we had the politics conversation," says Cornell. "I said I would take no specific focus lyrically before I started writing...
...ways Vertu is an old phone in a shiny new suit. The company is wholly owned by Finnish phone giant Nokia, and uses a souped-up version of the same software in your basic 3310. But what a suit: the Vertu comes in stainless steel, gold, white gold and platinum. It is sheathed in the same leather used in Rolls Royces, and the face is scratch-proof sapphire. Ruby bearings under each keypad ensure precise key press. But while everyday mobiles are getting tinier by the moment, Vertu recalls an earlier, bulkier era. Kuwaiti fashion mogul Sheik Majed al-Sabah...
...period last year, and the depression isn't merely commercial. For the first time in recent memory, there's genuine apathy among fans and a sense that the music isn't what it used to be. LL Cool J--whose career has risen and fallen but seldom dipped below platinum--suddenly finds himself the genre's wisest head. "There are a lot of limits that people place on rap and rappers nowadays," says LL. "Some of those limits come from record companies, but a lot of them come from rappers themselves. They're afraid to be individuals...
Digital cameras used to be strictly for the AV Club crowd. Now supermodels are bling-blinging them on the red carpet as if they were platinum tongue studs. How did digital cameras go from geeky to superfreaky? Gadgetmakers made them smaller, cheaper, simpler and sexier. Case in point: Sony's new Cybershot U DSC-U10 ($200) is just 4 in. long and weighs a mere 4 oz., and it's finished in a delicious pearlescent white--you want to pop it like a Tic Tac. It's great for taking snapshots and pix for the Web, but if you want...
...still at No. 3 in its 19th week on the charts. Las Ketchup's album, Hijas del Tomate - Asereje plus "nine other songs just to fill up the CD," says Iñigo López Palacios, a pop critic for the Madrid newspaper El Pa?s - has gone platinum. All this success has surprised even Las Ketchup, who grew up in a big musical family but never expected to have a hit with Asereje - or any song at all. Just a year ago, the three sisters from Córdoba had never performed as a group in public. They didn...