Word: salsa
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What is the sound of one Head talking? Check out David Byrne. Since leaving Talking Heads, the brainiest rock band of the '80s, to go solo, Byrne has found his muse in the unexpected: an album of Latin salsa (1989's Rei Momo) and a mystical orchestral soundscape (last year's The Forest). Now Byrne has transplanted his rock roots into fertile tropical soil. In UH-OH (Luaka Bop), / released last week, jangling electric-guitar riffs alternate with piquant Caribbean rhythms, often in the same song, while Byrne aims his quirky intelligence at sex-change operations, domestic discord and even...
...will play salsa, merengue, house, rap, hip-hop among other selections from their varied repertoire, Chang said...
Notzon said that ballroom dancing has grown in popularity at Harvard and other college campuses, in part due to movies such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Salsa...
...everywhere. The 3 Mustaphas 3, a cutting-edge band from England, incorporates styles from the Balkans, Africa and Latin America -- sometimes in a single song. And Shang Shang Typhoon, a Japanese septet with two albums on the Epic/Sony Japan label, blends Okinawan and traditional Japanese music with salsa, reggae, funk and rock. "There is no pure, unadulterated music anymore," says Hart. "Nor should there be. If music doesn't change, it dies. And when the music dies, the community dies." By that measure, the world's future sounds pretty lively...
Vinegars -- herbed, balsamic, homemade, you name it -- took on added cachet as American chefs continued their ceaseless quest for less fattening flavor agents. The shelves of specialty stores groaned with an ever increasing array of novelty mustards, oils and sauces, including a typically macho salsa concocted by that iron-mouthed amateur, actor Paul Newman...