• He's under house arrest in Atlanta awaiting trial on weapons charges, but rapper T.I. got good news from a federal magistrate judge on Thursday: He can leave the house ... to go to church. The rapper (real name: Clifford Harris) can attend Easter services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. No word, though, if he can squeeze in a brunch or an egg hunt during his five-plus hours of freedom.
To hear some tell it, a revolution began last night as most in the U.S. drifted off to sleep. At midnight Eastern Standard Time, the British "post-rock" group Radiohead released its newest album "In Rainbows" directly to fans over a Web site of its own creation. The price? Whatever fans decide they'd like to pay - which also includes taking it for free.
Nothing lasts forever, the latest example being the garage-rock revival that blasted off at the dawn of this decade. Although it once injected rock with an energy boost, the style now feels played out, supplanted by more touchy-feely genres like emo and grand-gesture indie bands like the Arcade Fire.
Arctic Monkeys have already been lumped in with all those post-punk spitfire bands from across the ocean, including their very own U.K. labelmates Franz Ferdinand. Yet there's a revealing moment on the Monkeys' "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" that trashes any comparisons.
Britpop seems to rally itself once a decade, and it's about that time again. The last round sputtered in the late '90s -- Oasis sunk by hubris insupportable without more ''Wonderwall''s, Radiohead and Blur choosing artiness over world domination (though Radiohead achieved it anyway).
Last year, in this very section, I griped that in the face of rampant '80s nostalgia, I was prepared to prematurely revisit the decade that followed -- anything to ward off those inane old Poison videos that had returned to haunt us.
When last we heard from Sleater-Kinney, on 2002's "One Beat," one of indie rock's most musically and politically strident bands was as rattled as we were by 9/11.
• He's under house arrest in Atlanta awaiting trial on weapons charges, but rapper T.I. got good news from a federal magistrate judge on Thursday: He can leave the house ... to go to church. The rapper (real name: Clifford Harris) can attend Easter services at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. No word, though, if he can squeeze in a brunch or an egg hunt during his five-plus hours of freedom.
To hear some tell it, a revolution began last night as most in the U.S. drifted off to sleep. At midnight Eastern Standard Time, the British "post-rock" group Radiohead released its newest album "In Rainbows" directly to fans over a Web site of its own creation. The price? Whatever fans decide they'd like to pay - which also includes taking it for free.
Nothing lasts forever, the latest example being the garage-rock revival that blasted off at the dawn of this decade. Although it once injected rock with an energy boost, the style now feels played out, supplanted by more touchy-feely genres like emo and grand-gesture indie bands like the Arcade Fire.
Arctic Monkeys have already been lumped in with all those post-punk spitfire bands from across the ocean, including their very own U.K. labelmates Franz Ferdinand. Yet there's a revealing moment on the Monkeys' "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" that trashes any comparisons.
Britpop seems to rally itself once a decade, and it's about that time again. The last round sputtered in the late '90s -- Oasis sunk by hubris insupportable without more ''Wonderwall''s, Radiohead and Blur choosing artiness over world domination (though Radiohead achieved it anyway).
Last year, in this very section, I griped that in the face of rampant '80s nostalgia, I was prepared to prematurely revisit the decade that followed -- anything to ward off those inane old Poison videos that had returned to haunt us.
When last we heard from Sleater-Kinney, on 2002's "One Beat," one of indie rock's most musically and politically strident bands was as rattled as we were by 9/11.
2004 was an especially fertile year for good music. As always, many deserving albums somehow stayed under the radar and off many year-end lists. Here are five albums that you should have listened to.
Tired of the "alternative" mix on the radio? Looking for something a little more original? Or perhaps you just want to impress your hipster friends by busting out some cool tunes from the underground. Well, here are three indie gems just waiting to be dug up:
With Interpol sitting on top of the indie rock pile, it seems the much-ballyhooed New York music scene has survived the apparent scare after the Strokes' second album, "Room on Fire," came and went with little fanfare.
Spoon Kill the Moonlight Merge With all the roguish swagger of the Strokes and none of the attendant hype, Spoon's new-wave keyboards and angular guitar hooks sound like a high-speed collision betw...
Blackalicious Blazing Arrow MCA People who say that hip-hop is in a rut haven't listened to a lot of hip-hop lately. Case in point: Blackalicious, a California crew whose music steams over with a f...
Cato Salsa Experience A Good Tip for a Good Time Emperor Norton A few months back we raved about Swedish garage rockers the Hives. Now we'll do the same for Norway's Cato Salsa Experience. Don't be...
ABC The Best of ABC Mercury Yeah, Martin Fry and his merry band of fops looked dumb in those shiny silver suits, but ABC's music--a champagne-fizzy cross between Cole Porter and Roxy Music--remain...
Not quite three years ago, Sir Colin Southgate was the toast of British industry. As chairman of EMI, the $5.4 billion music giant behind the Beatles and the Spice Girls, he'd saved a national inst...
Word to Senator Bob Dole: get with it, bro. The Republican presidential hopeful recently scored big points bashing rap music and record companies such as Time Warner (parent of Fortune's publisher)...
Last winter New York City radio station KISS-FM accelerated from 14th place to first in the ratings faster than a Manhattan cabbie goes through a yellow light. How? By targeting upscale black baby-...
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