Next Stop Nowhere
America's new indie-rock capital, Omaha, is overrun with young
bands and hungry industry execs. It's enough to make a singer want
to run away from home
By Spin Staff; Will Hermes 06.29.03 3:00 AM
I'll leave behind dull care / I'm going there, and I'll not be alone.... I'm going back to dear old Omaha--"I Want to Grow With Growing Omaha," Albert Adair and Julius K. Johnson, 1923
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Madonna, 'American Life' (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
Madonna addresses a fearful nation.
By James Hannaham 06.29.03 3:00 AM
Even if you dislike Madonna's music, it's hard to deny that she'd make as good a candidate as anyone for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. She's world-renowned for her charisma and business savvy. Getting married, becoming a mother, reaching 44, and penning children's books have upped her cred more than they've eroded her pinup status.
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Fitter Happier: Radiohead Return
For years, Radiohead have been known as cold, cutting artistes
who do everything--particularly interviews--the hard way. So why
are they now acting like a bunch of chatty, regular guys who simply
read lots of books and fear for our future?
By Chuck Klosterman; Spin Staff 06.29.03 3:00 AM
MEETING THOM IS EASY
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Spin Record Guide: Essential World Music
Back in the 1980s, hippies made “worldbeat”--a catchall
for any music from outside America or England--a dirty word. Which
is a shame. From African funk to Asian punk, Cuban rumba to
Algerian disco, global pop is constantly mutating. In a small world
that’s only getting smaller--and scarier--a little musical
multilateralism goes a long way.
By Jon Dolan; Spin Staff 06.29.03 3:00 AM
Back in the 1980s, hippies made “worldbeat”--a catchall
for any music from outside America or England--a dirty word. Which
is a shame. From African funk to Asian punk, Cuban rumba to
Algerian disco, global pop is constantly mutating. In a small world
that’s only getting smaller--and scarier--a little musical
multilateralism goes a long way.
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Fischerspooner
The Fischer Kings
By Spin Staff 06.26.03 3:00 AM
Who: Composer Warren Fischer and his Art Institute of Chicago schoolmate/vocalist Casey Spooner. Dancers, backup singers, chocolate-syrup wranglers, and wig fluffers flesh out the duo's live performances.
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