Word: rocks
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...drop by and play him whatever songs they've been writing. This eliminates most applicants. Few pop musicians, it turns out, are used to regular writing, and even fewer show enough promise in their songs to interest him. "One of Rick's favorite phrases is 'metaphor deficient,'" says Rock. "If people write things that are metaphor deficient, even he can't help them...
Sting will send an SOS to the world Feb. 11 as he reunites his punk-rock group, the Police, to perform the opening act at the Grammys. Could this be the comeback of the '80s mane...
...Kiedis, Rock and other close Rubin friends (the circle changes and currently includes actor Owen Wilson and Borat director Larry Charles) are pressing Rubin to go to the Grammys and revel in his moment, but Rubin says, "I'm really not a celebrating-myself kind of guy. I'll probably spend the night at the studio, then come home and watch it on TiVo...
...baby--Me! Who'd'a thunk it!--and wrestles to reconcile his or her sensibility with the numbing demands of the cradle. For blogger Rebecca Woolf, that moment came when her baby barfed on the Moby section at an indie record store. Mom's response: "I call that punk rock...
...Howl of this movement is Neal Pollack's new memoir Alternadad (Pantheon). Pollack, a novelist and erstwhile punk-rock frontman, sets out to make sure that in a world of Disney and Barney, his baby Elijah, now 5, will be cool (and thus that Dad will remain so). He home schools the boy in hipster culture, taking him to blues shows and playing him a curated collection of punk. Goodbye, Baby Mozart; hello, Baby Ramone...