Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked like serial killing of the same victim. For years Starr has been putting the squeeze on Hubbell in the hope of getting him to give up something about either the President or Hillary Clinton, who was Hubbell's law partner at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., in the 1980s. Hubbell has already served 18 months in prison after pleading guilty four years ago to charges that he cheated his law partners at Rose. No sooner was Hubbell free than Starr indicted him again earlier this year on tax-evasion charges. Two months later those were dismissed...
Within this framework of upbeat and catchy music, it is often difficult to take the messages of the songs on Why Do They Rock So Hard seriously. Perhaps the inconsistency of the music and the lyrics is a failing, allowing listeners to willfully misunderstand or ignore the meanings that Reel Big Fish are attempting to express. But the inconsistency may also serve to highlight alternative music's disturbing acceptance of conflict. And besides, if Reel Big Fish set their lyrics to appropriately violent music, their songs would not be nearly as much...
...Paradise Rock Club...
...Halloween at the Paradise Rock Club, and the Cardigans had found a new costume: a mask of hissing, buzzing electronica over the Swedish band's familiar retro pop face. The catchy pop melodies still lurked behind this sizzling new facade, to be sure, but the Cardigans' fans--hip, Eurotrash 20-somethings--had to grapple with a whole new persona...
...their previous albums, this hard core was always there, beneath the sweet melodies; both Peter Svensson, lead guitarist and songwriter, and Sveningsson played in heavy metal bands before forming the Cardigans. Sveningsson explained: "We wanted to become a pop band; [Peter and I] played in individual hard rock bands back in the '80s. We met because we needed someone new to play with. Peter is still in that scene, but I have found other things to listen to." Keyboardist Johansson had a more pithy account of new, harder Cardigans: "We're back, and we're loud...