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...start with a divisive statement: all these "open-minded" artists are getting old. I mean the horde of platinum-selling genre-hybrid acts: rap-rockers (Limp Bizkit), R-and-B-rock-teen-poppers (Pink), pop-dance-post-punkers (No Doubt) and Latin-rock-pop divas (Shakira), who practice the eclecticism that has been hot since way back when it was settled that the electronica revolution was a non-starter. Their songs are generally okay, and occasionally breach the lower depths of pretty good, but they're last decade's news; Rage Against the Machine brought rap-metal mainstream...
...Linkin Park also exemplifies hard rock at its most open-minded, with a line-up that includes a rapper and a D.J.; nearly every song juxtaposes heavy riffs with ambient electronic sounds. If none of this seems revolutionary, thank Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rage Against the Machine, who transformed rap-metal from a novelty into a commonplace...
...cynic he was, it was with acerbic joy--a shameless love for all the scoundrels who schemed to get rich, kill the cuckolded husband, exploit the misery of a man trapped in a cave, beat a murder rap, shin up the corporate ladder, bamboozle an insurance company or steal a nice guy's girl. For Wilder, mankind was divided not into the haves and have-nots but into the haves and let's-gets. He celebrated the ugly American: brash men on the make, women on the take. What knaves these mortals be! How smart they are, though...
...pronounced “sex”) was a little out of place as an opening act for the evening. Both Death Cab for Cutie and the Dismemberment Plan are indie rock/emo bands. Cex is not so much a rock band as an irreverent rap...
...match over Morrison’s salmon-colored guitar, Cex’s awkward and unskilled attempts to play said guitar after winning the battle for it and a good deal of confused and amused looks from members of the audience. Interspersed throughout were shouted, yet barely audible, familiar rap lyrics made all the more hilarious by the on-stage goofing While Cex growled and snarled, Morrison maintained a babyish and docile facial expression reminiscent of a young Sarah Jessica Parker as Annie singing “Tomorrow...