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Musicians performing in different languages often strike similar chords. Listen to the intense, undulant wail of Assane Ndiaye on the song Nguisstal, a track on Streets of Dakar: Generation Boul Fale, a compilation of young Senegalese acts. Boul fale is a Wolof phrase that means, loosely, "Never mind." The American punk group Nirvana's seminal album of teen angst was also titled Nevermind. Alienation, it seems, is a nation without borders...
...reason this story is set in Florida to begin with is that Shakira wouldn't send any tracks from her still-in-the-works CD to TIME's offices in New York City. She wanted a critic to go to the studio where she was working and listen to her new music there. She wanted to stand right next to the critic as he took in her just recorded songs. Hmm. Actually, come to think of it, having Shakira--who recently graced the cover of PEOPLE EN ESPANOL's "25 Bellezas Latinas" issue--personally play her new material...
...first listen, the rock band RaHoWa's song When America Goes Down sounds like any bad hard-core-rock ballad. The lyrics are cheesy high school poetry: "Will our 'twained lives split asunder?/ Will our love submerge and drown?" The vocals are often mumbled and atonal. And the instrumentals have all the professionalism of a Wayne's World guitar riff. But it's not every love song that features verses in which a man assures his beloved that "the color of our skin" will become "our uniform of war"--or every rock group whose name is short for Racial Holy...
...turn to the computer. Internet radio offers continuous treams of music, and other kinds of sound, to any consumer who can log on and download audio files. The software that makes this possible comes in the form of programs like RealPlayer that are available for free online. Users can listen to streams, called stations, created by others, or they can create their own streams. And the streams can run while the computer does other things...
...very expensive to do right now," says Jed Grodin, who is in charge of music programming at Hypnotic, the online entertainment company, owned largely by Vivendi Universal, which recently subsumed the Web radio site Nibblebox. "The cost for one person to listen to one minute of music is so high. Streaming providers charge by the megabyte, so every person you add costs money." That means the more listeners a Web radio station attracts, the higher its costs, whereas old-fashioned, "terrestrial" stations have relatively fixed costs for a license, staff and facilities, and tend to get more profitable as they...