Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fixation. Having been in at least 15 independent films since she left As the World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre. "I'm not crazy about the way controversy is so important for independent films," she says. "This year it's lesbian punk rockers and heroin needles." But still, she's happy not to go Hollywood--yet. "First-time directors are much more thoughtful about their work," she says. "And first features happen only once...
...just in time. Straight-ahead rock is a bit exhausted right now. Instead, rockers who draw from R. and B., hip-hop and/or ska are hot--the funky rock band 311, the pop-ska band No Doubt, the ska-punk band Sublime. "Some of the stuff that's big for us lately seems less rock and has more of a beat influence," says Lisa Worden, music director for kroq, an alternative-rock station in Los Angeles. "Beck stays away from the typical rock sound." Odelay isn't a flawless album--Beck isn't as soulful as some...
...Sublime Sublime (Gasoline Alley/MCA). A good-hearted street riot of punk rock, avant-garde hip-hop and ska (a faster, jerkier reggae precursor), Sublime's music is hard to categorize and harder still to resist. The band is already defunct (the lead singer and songwriter, the puckishly gifted Brad Nowell, died of a heroin overdose in May), but no rock album this year sounds more alive...
...DiFranco Dilate (Righteous Babe Records). Tart, topical songs from this 25-year-old genre-bending singer-guitarist, who blends folk, punk, trip-hop and whatever else strikes her fancy into insurgent and often arrestingly beautiful music. DiFranco hitches these tunes to scathing lyrical and deeply personal takes on romance and gender issues, then releases her records through her own record company...
...with creative activity--and has for decades. The singer Sade was a student in the '70s, and the first Sex Pistols concert was held there. Louise Wilson, head of the graduate program, says, "Lots of French designers come from good backgrounds, but here the likelihood is that kids are punk, with an emphasis on the street...