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Wed, 09 May 2007 10:34:43 +0200

NYT > Rock Music Chosen by David Bowie, Shows That He’d Attend By BEN SISARIO David Bowie has a little trouble taking seriously the job description for his newest gig: curator of the first High Line Festival.... Mr. Bad Example By TOM CARSON An oral biography of Warren Zevon, the hard-drinking, hard-living rock ’n’ roll wit.... Wizards in the Studio, Anonymous on the Street By BEN SISARIO 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.... Stupid and Contagious By BENJAMIN KUNKEL Nirvana’s power owed a lot to its self-divisions: tortured lyrics, catchy tunes.... And Now, a Few Words in Defense of Nostalgia By KELEFA SANNEH There are many reasons to cherish rock reunions, not all of them musical.... TV REVIEW | 'AMERICAN MASTERS - AHMET ERTEGUN'; Revealing the Innovator Behind the Music By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN 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.... [TS] With Indie Rock on 175th St., City’s Reinvention Rolls Uptown By JIM DWYER A former movie theater in Washington Heights has become one of the largest music venues in the city.... A Rock Festival Whose Hallmark Is Taste By BEN RATLIFF Coachella’s lineup of bands is starting to look fairly standardized within the new pop-festival market.... [TS] Menudo Hopefuls Strut, Preen and Even Try to Sing By ANTHONY RAMIREZ 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. MUSIC REVIEW; Hazy Clouds of Sound, Halfway Intelligible Vocals By KELEFA SANNEH 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. [TS] SDEROT JOURNAL; Give Them Shelter: Where Rockets, and Drums, Go Boom By JENNIFER MEDINA 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. [TS] MUSIC; Not Reunions, Reinventions (Back and Better. Really.) By BEN RATLIFF The best reunited bands can sound better than theydid, at a time when live performances define them. [TS] Remaking Old Hits To Earn New Money By JEFF LEEDS By re-recording decades-old hits, artists are keeping a much bigger share of licensing proceeds. MUSIC REVIEW; Two Bands, Different on the Surface but With Quite a Few Shared Ideas By NATE CHINEN 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. MUSIC REVIEW; Flirting With Dystopia, Experimenting With Noise By KELEFA SANNEH 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

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