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Assigning ultimate responsibility for the disaster will hinge on determining who knew the band intended to set off fireworks. Local authorities say the Station did not have a permit to use fireworks, but the most intense scrutiny was directed at Great White, a largely forgotten hard-rock outfit that scored its biggest hit in 1989 with a cover of Ian Hunter's Once Bitten, Twice Shy. Through a lawyer, the owners of the Station said Great White's managers never informed the club that the band's act included pyrotechnics. And a co-owner said on Saturday the band...
SOiL’s major label debut, Scars, explodes from the Windy City with a hard-rock radio blend of melodic hooks and crunching riffs. This nu-metal outfit manages to temper the simplicity of drop-d tuned chunk metal with alt-rock and cock-rock attitude. The band keeps it simple. They don’t blend hip-hop, they don’t dose tracks with techno-loops, but stick to simple meat and potatoes rock-metal power, with an occasional decrease in distortion for a few seconds of sensitivity. Catapulted by their debut single...
...progress that rock has made against pop this year, three dudes who write their own songs and play their own instruments are outselling Britney Spears with their new CD. For many people over 14, that sounds like an answer to a fervent prayer. But it's unclear whether the hard-rock band Creed's new album Weathered (Wind-up), which debuted at first place on the Billboard 200 by selling 887,000 copies in its first week, is salvation or the devil in disguise...
Like its chart-topping hard-rock colleagues in Staind, Creed may prove to be a lesson in Rock 101 for the Britney generation, a bland Big Mac to wean the kids off musical Gerber. But after a few bites of what this band serves up, experienced buds will crave more exotic fare--like Pearl...
...Tuesday, the administration announced it was withdrawing tough new limits (set by an outgoing President Clinton) on the amount of arsenic allowable in drinking water, pending further review. Wednesday, the administration said it would seek to undo regulations forcing more hard-rock miners in the West to post cleanup bonds. And Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney told "Hardball" that if it's emissions environmentalists are worried about, his energy-policy task force may well recommend that more nuclear power be part of the solution...