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...revival of choice is not as fresh as it might have been four or five years ago. By now, The Rapture and their fellow hipsters have pilfered the 80s in much more innovative ways, with considerably more sincerity. Hysterical, high-pitched vocals, stinging guitar lines and echoing Duran Duran synths are old hats in late...
Boston’s Mix 98.5 presents Mixfest X, the tenth year in what many consider the best Adult Radio concert series. This year’s concert features Mixfest alumni Duran Duran, Barenaked Ladies and Train, as well as radio favorites Dido, Tori Amos, Michelle Branch, and Vertical Horizon. Jason Mraz, the breakout star of the summer, will also take the stage, and Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray is the guest MC. 6 p.m. $39.50-87.50. FleetCenter, 1 FleetCenter Pl., Boston...
Saudi gifts to build or improve mosques and community centers in the U.S. generally come with strings attached, says a U.S. official. "It's conditioned on the preaching of Wahhabism." According to Washington-based Khalid Duran, president of the Ibn Khaldun Society, a Muslim cultural association, virtually every Muslim child in the U.S. receiving religious instruction in Arabic is using Saudi textbooks. "Students are being indoctrinated into this feeling that a Muslim is automatically a better human being," he says. A seventh-grade Saudi text in use in the U.S. and obtained by Rita Katz, executive director of an institute...
...sound is more than just music to retailers' ears. In its quiet, hypnotic way, it is changing the habits of a nation. The versatile VCR can rerun yesterday's shows today and preserve today's for tomorrow. It can deliver movies old and new, the sights and sounds of Duran Duran in concert, a course in auto repair or a daily exercise regimen. With the help of a video camera, it can capture special family moments for an instant home movie or create a "video postcard" for far-off relatives. The VCR's contagious tune is, in short, the anthem...
...typo. The year was 1985, and although shipments of recorded music were down 4%, the worst the industry had to worry about--hair spray and tight pants aside--was that some listeners liked to mix their own cassette tapes with favorite tunes from the latest Phil Collins or Duran Duran albums. Record companies dealt with this casual piracy by printing a skull and crossbones on the backs of tapes along with the claim that HOME TAPING IS KILLING MUSIC. If that was the case, then it was the compact disc, which really took off in the mid-'80s, that brought...