Word: sell-out
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...move that seems more like a smart company's buy-in rather than an artist's sell-out, DC comics has just finished publishing Gilbert Hernandez' five-issue "Grip: The Strange World of Men." With his brother Jaime, Gilbert's work on "Love and Rockets" set the benchmark for an entire generation of post-underground comix artists. (They were selected as one of TIME's 21st Century Innovators.) Though the publisher better known for its superhero "properties" clearly didn't know quite what to do with it, Hernandez's "Grip" combines all the elements that have gone into making...
Morning View is the follow-up to Incubus’ incredibly successful third studio album, Make Yourself. Despite their sell-out hit, “Drive,” with its acoustic accompaniment and self-motivating lyrics, Incubus have largely been compared to angrier, more aggressive bands like the Foo Fighters and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But it seems that the prospect of commercial success has gone to Incubus’ collective heads, and on View, the raw energy of their early work is reworked and toned down into something more accessible...
...Onion, while perhaps a sell-out, still has its edge...
...certainly an odd feeling in this area. Boston is known to be a city gung-ho about its sports teams. The Red Sox are everyday front page news. The Patriots usually sell-out home games during the football season, and the Bruins and Celtics are glorified dynasties in their respective athletic organizations...
...Road clothing store McLaren co-owned with Vivienne Westwood. Rotten’s claim that “only the fake survive” was used to incite a reaction among his fans, but in truth his statement was autobiographical. Vicious was unable to reconcile the sell-out aspect of superstardom with his belief in the tenets of punk rock, and died of a heroin overdose after the breakup of the band...