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Billy Corgan: over the years music's most penetrating singer-songwriters have straddled the line between poet and lyricist. With the recent publication Billy Corgan has sold almost 30 million records, first as one of the founding fellas of alternative rock with Smashing Pumpkins, and most recently with ......(Continue Reading) Amp'd Brings Hip Music, Videos to Phones Young people like things fast and flashy. So that's how a new mobile phone carrier, Amp'd Mobile, intends to deliver the music, games and videos that young people and the young-at-heart want: by usin...(Continue Reading)Beastie boys: they were once a band of rhyming hopefuls who were dismissed as a novelty act. But two decades later, and with a new album, they're at the Nearly 20 years ago, three hip-hop-obsessed Jewish teenagers from New York City--Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, ......(Continue Reading)Up from the Underground: the Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary Anna Szemere Pennsylvania State UP, University Park, 2001 253 pp. (paperback), ......(Continue Reading)Club for heroes: William Cook on how the boys in skirts are back in town - Music - Boy George and the New Romantics - Brief Article "Give me a freak any day of the week," warbles a bloke in a policewoman's cap and an off-the-shoulder ball gown. "I'm comfortable with those you call ......(Continue Reading)
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