Taught To Be Proud: Tea Leaf Greenby Joe Doherty |
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Most artists floating about the pop music cosmos these days are bought and sold in a marketplace. Just look at the most recent musical trends of the past half decade or so: boy bands, rap-rock, emo, hip-hop—the list goes on. Such blurry faced corporate-molded soon-to-be-where-are-they-now artists like Limp Bizkit, the Backstreet Boys and Ricky Martin have ultimately been chewed up by the public and then spit back out. |
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SXSW 2006by Donny Kutzbach |
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It’s become like a rock and roll Mardi Gras—this South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival. The streets of Austin, Texas fill with a worldwide audience of music lovers, some there for business and others for pleasure, who gaze at scraps of papers, unfold guide booklets from their jeans and scroll through schedules downloaded to iPods. These festival goers huff up and down Texas’ bustling capitol, moving from club to club, hoping to see something great or, in some cases, just hoping to get in. |