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...U2 has it right, life as we know it will end in the greatest traffic snarl in history. The Irish rockers almost caused it last week, when they made a video for the Armageddon-theme song Last Night on Earth from their new CD Pop. Motorists in Kansas City, Mo., got a glimpse of hell: highways were closed, city streets were blocked, and police corralled hundreds of fans. In the video, author WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 84, whose nihilistic novels have influenced U2 front man BONO, embodies a malign force that brings down civilization. Symbolizing the band's dim view...
...Sneaker Pimps and Morcheeba and the promising avant-dance group the Prodigy are giving what has largely been instrumental music a voice, fresh faces and heart; and rock vets like Eric Clapton (with his new band T.D.F.) and David Bowie are tapping into it for inspiration. Now, this week, U2 releases its electro-tinged CD Pop, which features drum-and-bass-driven songs like Mofo and dance-rock numbers like Discotheque. Pop is passionate, futuristic and completely engaging. Lead singer Bono, on the phone from Dublin, talked about his band's bold new direction...
TIME: As usual with U2, there's religious imagery on Pop. Are you a churchgoer...
...CASSANDRA WILSON NEW MOON DAUGHTER (Blue Note). With her knowing, nocturnal voice, Wilson is the queen of contemporary jazz vocalists and the true heir of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Here she branches out, with remakes of songs by the likes of U2, Hank Williams, even the Monkees. She graces all of them--covers as well as spellbinding originals--with a classy Afrocentricity that shatters boundaries even as it breaks your heart...
...U2 always wanted to be pioneers in the music business, but not this way. Two clips from the album the band is currently recording have been smuggled onto the Internet. A fan in Hungary got hold of some private videotapes and uploaded 30-sec. audio clips from cuts called Discotheque and Wake Up Dead Man to his U2 Website. In cyberseconds, the clips were on sites worldwide and, despite their iffy quality, were playing on radio and mtv and selling on the streets of London for $10. U2 won't comment, but its label, Island Records, has asked that...