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David Bowie has a little trouble taking seriously the job description for his newest gig: curator of the first High Line Festival....
An oral biography of Warren Zevon, the hard-drinking, hard-living rock ’n’ roll wit.... 
Tor Erik Hermansen and Mikkel S. Eriksen are wholesome-looking Norwegians who have quickly become two of the most in-demand figures in pop music.... 
Nirvana’s power owed a lot to its self-divisions: tortured lyrics, catchy tunes.... There are many reasons to cherish rock reunions, not all of them musical....
PBS’s “American Masters” series cannily presents Ahmet Ertegun’s biography - along with the story of the great pop musicians of the 20th century he helped make famous.... A former movie theater in Washington Heights has become one of the largest music venues in the city....
Coachella’s lineup of bands is starting to look fairly standardized within the new pop-festival market.... About 50 or so boys auditioned a cappella at the food court at the Queens Center Mall for the final round of selections for the next Menudo.
Was that blood? Probably not, but it wasn’ t easy to tell with the Atlanta-based band Deerhunter onstage at the Mercury Lounge on Thursday night.Teenagers in an Israeli town known for its underground pop-rock scene are grappling with the music that comes out of it and the rockets that come into it.
The best reunited bands can sound better than theydid, at a time when live performances define them.
By re-recording decades-old hits, artists are keeping a much bigger share of licensing proceeds.
The bands share a fascination with the laws of attraction,and both proselytize the art of letting go. And eachplayed a strong show on Sunday, though not without brushing up against limitations.
With its sneaky bass lines and ever-mutating timbres, “ Year Zero” is a throwback to the days when computer-generated music was full of static and blips.Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
