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The Big Fat Indian Wedding Grows Bigger and Fatter
Simran Kaur got married last December in what she terms a “medium-sized Punjabi wedding”.
Mexican Soap Opera Turns Cops into Narcowar Heroes
“What do you think about before you go on a raid?” the slim, beautiful wife asks the handsome Mexican federal police officer after he’s just busted 23 tons of cocaine. “That they don’t kill me,” the dashing federal replies as emotional music kicks in
Legend Of Dylan
Bob Dylan is flipping through his own back pages. He has finally started writing an autobiography
A Rock Star Changes His Stripes
Jack White works in an office. Until the White Stripes’ formal dissolution in February, White was the singer, guitarist and songwriter for one of the biggest rock bands in the world.
Vinyl Gets Its Groove Back
From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs.
10 Questions for Tim McGraw
He’s a country-music megastar whose tour with wife Faith Hill was one of 2006’s biggest moneymakers. He’s also a doting husband and dad who has vowed never to spend more than two nights away from Hill and their three young girls.
Africa: Get Up Stand Up
The problem for anyone trying to make what Bob Marley once called “rebel music” today is not that there’s too little rebellion out there but, by Western pop culture’s liberal definition, that there’s way too much. Since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll, popular music has been de facto rebellious, at least insofar as the term is defined by record labels and soft-drink ads.
Amazon’s Cloud Music and Storage: Revolution in the Making
When it comes to the distribution of digital entertainment, the planet has only two superpowers. One, of course, is Apple
Music: Full Moon & Empty Arms
Hearing his favorite classics mangled by a dance band, many a music lover has longed to take out after the guilty man, but most lovers of the classics do not know where to look. A 32-year-old Tin Pan Alleyite named Ted Mossman is their man.By setting classics to 4-4 jazz time and adding banal lyrics, Mossman has made more money rewriting masterpieces than the original composers did in writing them.