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...Robinson is the rider to watch. Besides biking for gold, he's shooting to shift the stereotype of extreme-sport athletes. "I hope we can bring some edge," he says. "But we're not a bunch of punk kids riding around town vandalizing stuff." That's nice to know. "I'm not the typical action-sport athlete," he says. "I like to sing and dance. That's who I am; that's my personality...
...special band," says Hutz. "What you see on stage is pretty much an amplified version of these people's personalities and lives." Gogol Bordello - an American, a Chinese-Scot, an Ecuadorian, an Ethiopian, an Israeli, two Russians, a Thai-American and Ukrainian Hutz - call their music "gypsy punk," a label Hutz invented, he says, to stop music journalists coming up with a worse...
...focus is on touring relentlessly. A few hours after Hutz's shopping expedition, a 5,000 person sell-out crowd roars its approval as the band strikes up Zina Marina and Hutz struts across the stage in stilettos and his blonde wig. Two hours of frenzied gypsy folk, punk, dub, flamenco, whatever, later, and the audience is ecstatic. But Hutz wants more. People are always asking, he says, why he jumps from project to project, why his life is "such a nonstop thing. But then I'll read something about Leonardo da Vinci or Charlie Chaplin or Michelangelo...
...Pistols peevishly canceled a Saturday Night Live appearance. SNL creator Lorne Michaels, who has himself made a lucrative career out of counterculturalism, complained, ''It's very strange that a group that prides itself on representing the underground turns us down because we can't pay them enough.'' Punk, essentially a working-class British genre, never went fully mainstream in happy-face America. But since then the U.S. has become a significant bit more like Britain: the sense of tapped-out, no-hope job anxiety that has settled over this country helps postpunk bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam sell millions...
...beyond for three nights last week, late-night travelers near Atlanta came upon an astonishing new rock group in the lounge at the Ramada Renaissance. There, goofing and jamming together, were U2's lead singer Bono Vox and guitarist the Edge as well as Lou Reed, the grandfather of punk, Genesis Founder Peter Gabriel and New Orleans' own rock-'n'-soul kings, the Neville Brothers. Gyrating happily on the dance floor to the improvised mix of music was Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights...