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...Prince remake (thankfully), but another release in the French disco house genre that entered the global consciousness last year with the enormous success of Stardust, Daft Punk, and Bob Sinclar. Cassius comprises ace French producers Boombass and Philippe Zdar, and their experience as DJs (Paris's Respect is Burning; London's Basement Jaxx) and musicians (Motorbass and La Funk Mob) shows. The album's delectable pastiche of 4/4 beats, cut-up vocals and instruments, and funk-tinged deep bass (even the Foxy Brown theme gets sampled) creates some of the most massive tunes to hit the dancefloor, including the storming...
Already the white b-boy has become an iconic figure--ridiculed in movies like Can't Hardly Wait and the forthcoming Go, and in songs like Offspring's Pretty Fly (for a White Guy). In Pretty Fly the punk band Offspring mocks whites who adopt hip-hop styles, singing, "He may not have a clue/ And he may not have style/ But everything he lacks/ Well he makes up in denial." Irish-American rap-rocker Everlast, whose new CD, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, has proved to be a commercial hit, says the song makes him laugh: "They...
...Offspring is a best-selling punk band, but it isn't a great one: the group lacks the caustic poetry of Nirvana, the righteous snarl of Rancid and the amiable snottiness of Green Day. In its new album the Offspring attempts to make a virtue of its creative limitations: the songs on Americana are basic and direct, and a few of the tracks, including The Kids Aren't Alright, have a brutal appeal. But the band's weakness for cheap laughs soon grows tiresome--there's even a punk-rock parody of the easily mocked standard Feelings. For a group...
...series is nimbly narrated by folk-punk guitarist Ani DiFranco, who brings curiosity and energy to the project. "Beneath the surface of mainstream popular culture, there is the ever-present undercurrent of organically generated music," DiFranco writes in the River of Song companion book. "I'm talking about the indigenous, unhomogenized, uncalculated sound of a culture becoming itself in the streets, bars, gyms, churches and back porches of the real world...
...when Greg Bergdorf (guitar), Justin "Goldtoof" Maurello (vocals, guitar), Ben Osmundson (bass), Ed Udhus (drums) and Ali Tabatabaee (rapper) jammed so well together they decided to depart their other bands and become the best Orange Country band of the 1997 L.A. Music Awards, Zebrahead grew out of the O.C. punk scene into their own inspirational and unique white-light weldwork of angry vocals and freestyle rap. Through a string of charged, high-energy shows, Zebrahead built up an enthusing fan base and had major record labels sweet-talking them to sign even before they had played one show outside...