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This ain't Mika or Kelly Clarkson. Cool teen Londoners are into "credible music," according to Sam Killcoyne, the15-year-old organizer of the Underage events. And the roster of young talent assembled at London's Victoria Park for the festival was dripping with cred. The Young Knives, Jack Peñate and Cajun Dance Party may have already made an impression on the charts, but even the likes of Nottingham's electro-popsters, Late Of The Pier and Brighton's Maths Class have mustered a substantial London following by word of MySpace alone...
...have been quick to embrace the trend, and all the hard parts - staging, logistics, security - have been arranged and paid for by the likes of MySpace, Converse and BBC's Radio1. Seizing the moment, UK indie music company Mute Records has also launched a label, Irregulars, pitching new, young talent at a new, young market, with Killcoyne on board as a talent-spotter...
...show didn't have the cachet or the clout of Carson's. But Griffin and his producers were smart enough to realize that to compete they had to take more chances, and that made him more receptive to some of the era's most groundbreaking new talent. George Carlin and Richard Pryor were little-known stand-up comics performing in the folk and jazz clubs of Greenwich Village in 1965 when scouts from Griffin's show discovered them just weeks apart and booked them on the show. Griffin gave both of them multi-show contracts and had them on regularly...
...lagging behind. It's feared that attention to the so-called boy crisis will hamper achievement by girls. But education is not a zero-sum game. Boys and girls thrive under different conditions, and it's time we accommodate the learning styles of both. In a global competition for talent, we cannot afford to handicap any of our children. Adam Habib, Los Angeles...
...feared that attention to the so-called boy crisis will hamper achievement by girls in the classroom. But education is not a zero-sum game. Boys and girls thrive under different conditions, and it's time we accommodate the learning styles of both. In a global competition for talent, we cannot afford to handicap any of our children...