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WHEN A.B. QUINTANILLA talks about his sister Selena, the Tex-Mex music star murdered last March, allegedly by the former president of her fan club, his voice breaks with emotion. "I produced all of Selena's Latin stuff, all her successful stuff, and I'll never run into a vocalist like her ever again, or have a sister like her," he says. "That's what gives me an empty feeling--losing her first as a sister and then as a vocalist...
...haven't lost her as a vocalist. On July 18, EMI Records will release Dreaming of You, a half English, half Spanish pop album that was completed after Selena's death. The CD will undoubtedly bring her music to a far wider audience than she ever had when she was alive. That should not be surprising. The music world has long been fascinated with performers cut off in their prime; death, the old saying goes, is frequently a good career move...
Just after the tour started, Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis reportedly said the band might relent and use Ticketmaster. That brought an outcry--from Pearl Jam vocalist Eddie Vedder, who insisted that Ticketmaster was out. Then, on June 24, Vedder got sick with the flu, ended a San Francisco concert early and decided to cancel the entire tour-sort of. Days later, the band reinstated concerts in Milwaukee and Chicago and hinted at more...
...always tried to turn negative situations around." The more experimental Portishead, on the other hand, wallows in negativity: nearly every song on the band's gloomily ethereal debut CD, Dummy, deals with guilt or fear, or both. On one track, the tentative, tender It Could Be Sweet, Portishead vocalist Beth Gibbons sings, "I ain't guilty of the crimes you accuse me of/ But I'm guilty of fear...
...mutant age." His stylistically eclectic CD Maxinquaye is driven by churning, yearning hip-hop rhythms accentuated by grungy guitar riffs. On the track Pumpkin, Tricky recycles guitar licks from the alternative-rock band Smashing Pumpkins and inserts them into a haunting aria. On Black Steel he employs a female vocalist, Martine, to cover a song by the black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy...