Word: rocker
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...risks, is mostly painless and has a grandeur about it that erases all obligations, social and professional. It is the Get Out of Work card. All you do is put a hand to your chest, and people hold the door open for you and help you into a rocker...
...real instrumental, honest-to-goodness rock 'n' roll talent on the stage. There should have been more such moments. There were more than a few musical stars in the audience who would have energized the proceedings considerably had they gotten to perform a song or two. For example, Colombian rocker Shakira was in the house. Why not let her do a number? Why not have 'N Sync, who did get to perform, watch Shakira...
Ryan Adams is a little bit country, and he's a little bit rock 'n' roll. Don't confuse him with Canadian pop-rocker Bryan (Cuts Like a Knife) Adams--the two are no relation, by blood or by music. Ryan, 26, the former lead singer for the alt-country band Whiskeytown, writes songs that have the passion of youth and a melancholy that one might think would be beyond his years. Sometimes he sounds like the old Bruce Springsteen; other times he sounds like a new Hank Williams. Adams' last album, Heartbreaker (2000), was released on a small label...
...covered and euphemized for white folks by Billy Haley, ushered in what became known as rock ?n roll. An artistic and commercial restlessness sent agreeable tremors through the industry. As Leiber and Stoller could simultaneously produce the Coasters and the Drifters, a performer like Darin could quickly switch from rocker to saloon singer...
...psychedelic, '60s-inspired acts, but Matsutani says he isn't used to any of them doing very well outside a small community of die-hard rock fans. But that has changed with the recent success of Yura Yura Tei Koku, a once-underground band that sounds remarkably like Woodstock rocker Jimi Hendrix. "This band is selling out 5,000-seat theaters," Matsutani says with disbelief. "People seem to be tired of the same old pop?they're looking for feeling, a kind of musical trip...