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...second, diminutively titled “+” disc is sheer, unadulterated pleasure. Here, Scott digs deep into the bag of Baduisms and comes up with her own brand of sweet, sweet soul. This disc is so understated and mellow that it almost sounds as though a different singer has commandeered the spotlight after the exhausting pitch of the live material. “Gotta Get Up” is a classic soul song that might have been a Curtis Mayfield cover were it not for the reference to “staying at home and playing video games...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Is She ‘Experienced?’ | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...singing in his native Phoenix, Ariz. "I just got tired of being in bands that weren't dedicated," he says of the apathetic Phoenix metal scene. He had taken a job transferring property maps into computer files when a mutual friend told him Linkin Park was looking for a singer. With his wife's encouragement, Bennington drove to L.A., auditioned and never left. "Another guy was trying out the same day," says Shinoda, "and he just took off when he heard Chester try out. He was, like, 'Hey, I'm not gonna try to compete with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Linkin Park Steps Out | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...holders for McDonald's came up with a unique promotion during Ramadan two years ago - giving 25 cents (American) out of every sandwich sold to that country's 'Al Quds Intifada Fund,' which supported Palestinian children's hospitals treating casualties of the uprising. And in Egypt, local marketers chose singer Shaaban Abdel-Rahim to perform the jingle for its new McFalafel sandwich - a national hero for his hit song "I Hate Israel," which had become the signature tune of the boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adieu, Ronald McDonald | 1/24/2002 | See Source »

Before she died in a plane crash last August at the age of 22, R.-and-B. singer AALIYAH had already finished shooting her title role as a vampire in a movie version of the Anne Rice novel Queen of the Damned. Some of her lines, however, required further work. The dubbing was due to be completed in postproduction, and as first reported on TIME.com producers decided to keep the role in the family: her lines were provided by her brother Rashad, a musician whose smooth voice resembles his late sister's. As the recently awakened 6,000-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 21, 2002 | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...laugh track, using a single camera that follows the characters around, inserting songs and ditching the three-jokes-a-page rule, the show takes place in real time, so each week a clock in the corner of the screen counts down 22 minutes in the life of lounge singer and Los Angeles single gal Ellie Riggs, uninterrupted except for a freeze frame that precedes the commercial breaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Julia's New Domain | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

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