InterpolGotham's It band of the moment, Interpol, returned triumphantly to home turf before heading to Europe for the spring. Locals bid bon voyage to a far tighter, more confident Interpol than the one that became a regular on the city's downtown club circuit three years ago.3/10/2003 2:50pm PT
Bands, Brands and Billions: My Top 10 Rules For Making Any Business Go PlatinumEver wondered how to develop a successful boy band? Build a multimillion-dollar aviation enterprise? Own your own blimp? Entrepreneur Lou Pearlman has braved ridicule and industry skeptics by making millions with those endeavors, and he claims in that the skills behind that success can transfer to just about any start-up business.11/17/2002 5:00am PT
Sonic Boom, Napster, MP3 and the New Pioneers of MusicIt would be difficult to find an author more qualified than John Alderman to write a book about music on the Internet. The former culture editor for Wired magazine has been deep in the online music trenches when most of us were still mastering the intricacies of email.9/4/2001 2:02pm PT
Erykah Badu; CommonAbout halfway through an exquisite rendition of her jazzy ballad "Cleva," Erykah Badu offered up a live demonstration of the honest vulnerability that has made her recent studio work so compelling -- she removed her towering African headdress, omnipresent for most of her career, and revealed a newly shaven pate where ersatz dreadlocks once flowed. The confession drove the Radio City crowd into a frenzy; they leapt to their feet and whooped in praise of her candor. It also set the perfect tone for Badu to showcase the threads of love, betrayal, self-doubt and, ultimately, confidence that wind through her new album "Mama's Gun."2/15/2001 11:00pm PT
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, The History of the Disc JockeyPity the wretched disc jockey. Despite a century-long lineage, a supporting role in the rise of just about every form of popular music, and -- just recently -- some measure of fame and fortune, the DJ has seldom been able to wrench from critics the kind of attention routinely lavished upon blues, jazz and rock artists. Fear not: Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, two intrepid British journalists who have covered DJ music and culture for Mixmag, i-D, the Face and Rolling Stone, are determined to give DJs the scholarly canon they deserve, chronicling their rise from dutiful spinners to creators of a genre.10/22/2000 11:00pm PT