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...This last fin de siècle saw the rise and fall of Britpop (Oasis, Blur) and the Post-Punk Revival/New York Rock Rennaissance (The Strokes, The Libertines). Both movements suffered from the perception of having valued nostalgia over relevancy, or even quality. When Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas sang, “I’ve got nothing to say, I’ve got nothing to say,” everyone believed him. For the third time round in the last decade or so, people have wised up. There is a group of artists, on both sides...
...itself. We made the cars; the mythology of open-road optimism was an after-market accessory. It was the work of advertising agencies in New York that rhymed U.S.A. with Chevrolet; Californians like the Beach Boys and George Lucas, who made American Graffiti; New Jerseyans like Bruce Springsteen, who sang about pink Cadillacs, Chevrolet Deluxes and suicide machines sprung from cages out on Highway...
...Detroit's glory days as a city and an industry, you have to look hard to find songs by Michigan musicians about driving. Instead, Bob Seger--Michigan's Springsteen, who gave Chevrolet its "Like a Rock" slogan--reminisced about the backseat of his '60 Chevy in "Night Moves" and sang "Makin' Thunderbirds" about workers building Ford muscle cars in 1955: "They were long and low and sleek and fast/ They were classic in a word...
...sang of the past, and for the future. Come Jan. 20, her songs will be heard on the internal iTunes of the people she touched. Some voices can never be stilled...
...declared to thousands of supporters in Caracas on Sunday. "We're going to demonstrate who rules in Venezuela. If God gives me life and health, I will be with you until 2021" - the bicentennial of Venezuela's independence from Spain. "Uh-ah, Chávez no se va," he sang: "Chávez isn't leaving...