Word: rockers
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Richie Valens hit it big with La Bamba in 1959. The music industry didn't wholeheartedly embrace another Latin rocker until Santana's autumnal success...
...artist who has lost his way. Interestingly, he has adopted a low profile on his own album, while reaping the benefits of a bizarre and fantastic series of collaborations, from various elements of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (check out Anthony Kiedis on the out-and-out rocker “Girls,” where Tricky puts Prodigy in their place, sneering, “I’m not a firestarter, ‘cause I’m a little smarter”), Alanis Morissette, Ed Kowalczyk of Live, and, perhaps most bizarrely, Cyndi Lauper...
...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...