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Judge who sent TOMMY LEE to jail can find no evidence the rocker violated his parole by drinking...
...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 ain't talking about me, 'cause I'll beat the s___ out of every one of those guys." In fact, Everlast feels confident enough about his standing...
...your typical million-dollar South Beach bash: a star-studded crowd grooving to the sounds of Shotgun rocker Bruce Hornsby at a Gianni Versace mansion. But what was different about this party, thrown last September, was its guest list: 1,800 of the world's leading genomics experts drawn to Miami by a conference sponsored by Craig Venter, the enfant terrible of the gene hunters. Not everyone in the galaxy of genetics stars was there, however. Conspicuously absent was DNA co-discoverer James Watson, a former head of the federal Human Genome Project, who like other scientists in the field...
When Western pop performers draw explicitly from Third World sources, one can get the queasy feeling that somewhere an indigenous artist is producing better, more authentic music that will never be widely heard. In this compilation, rocker David Byrne plays it cool, stands back and simply presents the original work of some of his favorite Brazilian artists. The album draws on samba as well as psychedelic rock and '90s clubland rhythms. It's all a lot of fun, though one wishes it could, at times, be a little less lighthearted. Listeners searching for more depth should check out last year...
...Folk-rocker, later Congressman who died in a skiing accident...