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...Chicago-based alternative-rock quartet Veruca Salt is named after a character in the children's book Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, a spoiled brat who is thrown down a garbage chute by 99 angry squirrels. It's a provocative name because there are a lot of whiny alternative bands that deserve to be disposed of the same...
...quartet -- Stipe, Mills, guitarist Peter Buck and drummer Bill Berry -- met in Athens in the late '70s. It was not altogether friendship at first sight. "We were definitely in different camps in school," says Berry. "((Mills)) was kind of the nerdy, preppie, straight-A student who hung out with the other straight-A students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe...
Fortunately, the situation is not quite so dire. The vocal quartet Boyz II Men is living, singing proof that the love song -- like love itself -- will never really disappear. Other performers may grab the headlines and spark debates on the op-ed pages, but by going against the critical tide and recording harmonious ballads, Boyz II Men has won an enormous following. Its 1991 debut album, Cooleyhighharmony, sold 7 million copies, and in 1992 its mournful, melodic single End of the Road stayed at No. 1 on Billboard's charts for 13 weeks, breaking a record set by Elvis Presley...
Much is at stake with the release of II. There is the sophomore slump to worry about. Then there is the money. The quartet has a seven-record deal with Motown that could pay them between $20 million and $30 million, depending on the number of copies sold, according to a record-industry executive familiar with the deal. "I can't tell you how nervous I am about the record," says Stockman. "I'm praying this record does well." His prayers will probably be answered. II is an album of fulfilled promise, and one that sends a message...
...recently released two classical albums: songs by Aaron Copland (with baritone Thomas Hampson), and lieder by Schumann, Schubert, Wolf and Mozart, with texts by Goethe, accompanied by pianist Richard Goode. Due out in October is a record that shows yet another departure: music from Eastern Europe with the Kronos Quartet...