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...blurred a bit more this week. DMX, through his publicist, announced plans to turn himself in to authorities to serve a 15-day prison sentence for a traffic infraction (in my critical opinion, the judge ought to tack on a few more days just for DMX's last two CDs). Eminem, also this week, pleaded guilty to carrying a concealed weapon, and prosecutors agreed to drop an assault charge against him (the Grammy folks, who nominated Eminem's bigoted but best-selling "The Marshall Mathers LP" for album of the year, should probably plead guilty to soliciting...
...horizontal culture. Some of it is sardonically funny and talented and diverting, but on the whole, the good tends to be overwhelmed by wanton outpourings of id - the literature on tattooing and body-piercing and drugs and grim sexual mess (domination, S&M and the like), and CDs of rock bands with names taken from an obsessed, sophomoric metaphysics of death. In the democracy of trash, Jeffrey Dahmer achieves afterlife as Hannibal Lecter. The atmosphere of mutilation and stupidity and sickness and unhappiness and emptiness is suffocating. It is the culture of Columbine. To refuse to speak ill of this...
...will expand the market, I said. People will hear songs that they never heard before, and they will rush to the stores to buy the CDs. After all, nobody's going to download a whole album. Artists will be able to cut out the oppressive record companies (except, of course, for those fortunate artists signed to the enlightened companies that are part of the greater AOL Time Warner family) and get the audience and material rewards they deserve. Everyone will be rich, happy, fat and - did I mention rich...
...CDs by the Dartmouth's Aires, Iowa State's Shaggy Boys and Virginia Tech's Juxtaposition have been nominated for Best Male-Group Album...
...these CDs are in Portuguese; Monte and Mercury are in most record stores. To find Coelho and De Castro, you will have to go to online resources like Amazon.com But it's worth crossing the Amazon River to hear music this good...