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...city of Roswell, N.M. (pop. 49,000), is the birthplace of Demi Moore. It is also home to the nation's largest mozzarella plant. On warm spring nights, visitors deplaning onto the tarmac at the local airport may be struck, in a not necessarily unpleasant way, by the rich, manurelike odor rolling in from the surrounding ranchlands. But none of these things is what Roswell is most famous...
Roswell's pop-cultural apotheosis has been as an inescapable reference on Fox Television's The X-Files, a paranormal Dragnet that details the efforts of two wooden, underacted FBI agents to expose what has metastasized over the show's four seasons into an increasingly baroque conspiracy between the Federal Government and sinister extraterrestrials--a fiction whose particulars have been cherry-picked from among the wilder theories flitting through the UFO community. Its perspective is offered by John Price, founder of Roswell's UFO Enigma Museum, which began in 1988 in the back of his video store and today sprawls...
This was supposed to be the summer of "electronica"--artificially flavored pop that relies heavily on synthesizers, samples, loops and dance-beats and less on guitars and vocals. But so far, electronic, or techno, music seems to have only a few more fans in the U.S. than Dennis Rodman has in Utah; the most heralded acts have been weak performers in the marketplace. Now the Prodigy has arrived in the U.S., and its potent album, The Fat of the Land (Maverick/Mute XL/Warner Bros.), due out July 1, is not far behind. Can the band give electronica the jolt it needs...
...band will headline Lollapalooza along with Tricky, the most innovative electronic musician around. "Don't ever judge us by what you read in articles," says Maxim. "The only way you can judge us is to come to the show yourself." A solid sales pitch. The Prodigy may be pop stars...
...came from hell, and we're on the way to heaven--and you're hearing that transformation." Also, gangsta attitude isn't the only thing that sells: the recent chart success of such Christian acts as God's Property and Bob Carlisle demonstrates that religiously oriented inspirational pop has a market...