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Ravi became known to the West during the '60s, when he played at Woodstock and the Monterey festival and collaborated with the Beatles. His most recent album won a world music Grammy earlier this year. Anoushka, who lives with her parents in New Delhi - home to the new Ravi Shankar Center - and San Diego, also gets her musical inspiration from both East and West. Her repertoire is rooted in India's Hindu tradition, but colored by an upbringing in London, New Delhi and California spent listening to artists such as Sting and Tori Amos. "People tend to find...
...about getting a crappy childhood out of your system. It's about having a crazy time." Almost 50 years after Bill Haley, rock audiences have had lots of crazy times, but they long to repeat the great experiences of the past--hence the interest in classic-rock radio, Woodstock '99 and Lenny Kravitz--without feeling like a bunch of retro losers. The Hives' reckless, joyful punk evokes nostalgia for an era the band's young listeners missed out on, while the suits, T shirts and the best ironic song titles in recent memory--The Hives Are Law You Are Crime...
...everything they do (save their songs) with a sweetly humanistic approach. They may scream "Shut up when I'm talking to you" like misunderstood demons, but they don't wear goth makeup, cut themselves onstage, objectify women or encourage kids to "break stuff," as Limp Bizkit infamously did at Woodstock '99. They are earnest, middle-class guys who sign autographs until the arena lights go out, give their e-mail addresses to fans and refrain from uttering a single curse word on their album. "I think at one point I wrote, 'I can't take this f______ s___,'" says Bennington...
...time of peace, plenty and triviality, when we coasted in blissful self-absorption, drunk on day trading, egged on by a selfish, amoral popular culture. The period has become as instantly stereotyped as the '60s: just replace acid with half-caf lattes, Charles Manson with Gary Condit, and Woodstock with Survivor. It's a response that is both self-loathing (smacking of the Falwellian idea that we somehow brought disaster on our frivolous selves) and comforting (if so much was taken from us, shouldn't we get a sense of moral superiority in return?). It's also, in one important...
DIED. JOHN ROBERTS, 56, a founding producer of Woodstock, the 1969 music festival that defined a generation of sex, drugs and music-loving hippies-who-became-yuppies; of cancer; in New York City. Roberts and three friends put on the show to fund a music studio. With "local talent" like Bob Dylan, they expected 50,000 at Yasgur's farm in upstate New York; the event drew more than...