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Anxiety has rarely sounded so good. Sprawling, chaotic and loud, A Ghost Is Born, out on June 22, marks the latest departure for a band whose ability to evoke classic idioms of American pop music, from country to punk, is matched only by its determination to defy them. Wilco's previous album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a collection of well-sculpted melodies buried in layers of static, radio noise and percussion, so bewildered executives at the band's record label, Reprise, that they refused to release it. In response, Wilco left Reprise, bought the rights to the album and released...
...Michael Bennett at work, you could mistake him for a revival preacher: sweating, pacing in his crisp vest and raving hoarsely into a microphone. Bennett is actually a car salesman--not just any car salesman, mind you, but the Slasher. Hired by local car lots--at $12,000 a pop--he flies across the country to set up inventory-clearing extravaganzas, his arrival heralded by obnoxious radio commercials. ("Armed with a savings chainsaw! Slicing high prices!") Like an itinerant evangelist, he rolls into town, sets up his tent and spends 72 hours infusing the customers with the fiery spirit...
While online music services cajole buyers into dropping 99¢ on a pop hit, the wireless industry charges twice that for tinny, 30-sec. cellular ring tones based on the same tunes. And business is booming. Global revenues from ring-tone sales will top $4 billion this year, according to the consulting firm Strategy Analytics. New ways to customize your ring keep coming...
...Pop stars from Britney Spears to Tim McGraw are cashing in on ring-tone royalties. The most popular phone tune at the moment: rapper 50 Cent's In Da Club...
China's biggest soft-drink maker is shipping its patriotic pop to America. This spring, Wahaha, based near Shanghai, exported its first batch of Future Cola--435,000 half-liter plastic bottles--to Los Angeles and New York City. The drink, known in China as Extreme Cola, was designed to provide a domestic alternative to market leaders Coca-Cola and Pepsi. "What they can do, the Chinese people can do as well," says Shan Qining, a Wahaha spokesman. (Never mind that French yogurtmaker Danone owns 51% of Wahaha.) But the homegrown alternative has yet to pose a challenge...