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$4.95 (U.S.), $5.95 (CAN.), £3.95 (U.K.) 111 IN MUSIC NEWS $BXNCCVR *** ***** 3 -DIGIT 908 1GEE4EM740M0990741 002 0677 000 BI MAR 2396 1 03 MONTY GREENLY A740 ELM AVE APT A ^CACH, CA 90807 -3402 New Songs To Follow Beach Boys Reissues? PAGE 12 ÇpT THE INTERNATIONAL NEWSWEEKLY OF MUSIC, VIDEO AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT AUGUST 27, 1994 ADVERTISEMENTS PICTURE A MULTI - Warner's Waronker Vows To FORMAT Sony's Laing Glad To Return BREAKTHROUGH T H I S P I C T U R E New Zealander Sets Sights On U.S. Keep Ostin's Artist Legacy BY GRAHAM REID Laing's new album is more person- BY CRAIG ROSEN not named a new chairman of the al and less political than some of board. AUCKLAND -New Zealand sing- her earlier work. It builds on the LOS ANGELES -Lenny Waronker, The Aug. 15 announcement of Os- er Shona Laing, who earned a high success of her 1988 debut album, Mo Ostin's handpicked successor, tin's departure put an end to months profile in her homeland and a cult "South," which sold some 100,000 vows that the label will maintain Os- of speculation, that reached a high following worldwide with copies in the U.S., accord- tin's famed "art- pitch following the such provocative songs as ing to Sony, and the inter- ist- oriented" phil- appointment of "Glad I'm Not A Kenne- national exposure of her osophy when Os- Doug Morris as dy," has once more set 1992 release "New On tin steps down as president /C00 of her sights on an Ameri- Earth." Although "New chairman of the Warner Music - can breakthrough with On Earth" reaped only board and CEO on U.S. and the sub- her current album, modest sales of 25,000 Jan. 1, 1995. sequent resigna- "Shona." LAI NG worldwide, it was re- Waronker, cur- WARONKER EEOPOS tion of Elektra Released July 26 in the leased by Epic Records in rently the compa- Entertainment U.S. by Sony's TriStar Music label, (Continued on page 135) ny's president, will assume the title chairman Bob Krasnow (Billboard, "HEART OF ANOTHER MAN' of CEO in January. The company has (Continued on page 126) The band that delivered the #1 Alternative hit "NAKED RAIN" returns to explore new musical terrain. ALTERNATIVE TEXAS: NEW MUSIC BUILDS ON TRADITION The first single from their new album CITY OF SIN. Now at Rock, Modern Rock and MA. Coming to Top 40 on 8/22. San Antonio Retailer Trance Syndicate Has Drives Buyers Hogwild Lone Star State Shines Austin Under Its Spell SAN ANTONIO -Dave Risher re- BY MELINDA NEWMAN members when he decided to turn his hobby-selling cutout records at flea With Regional Rock Scenes AUSTIN -Austin has long been markets on weekends -into a full - BY MELINDA NEWMAN From roadside honky -tonks to heralded a great music town, but time profession. "I got tired of the 60,000-seat stadiums, music still when it came to gun dealers with booths around me TEXAS -Few states have provid- pours out onto the streets of Tex- cutting -edge al- using my merchandise [for target ed the world with as rich a musical as, much of it now made by young ternative rock, it practice] as they were aiming their legacy as Texas. alternative rock was sorely lack- guns." The state has bands eager to ing. At least until spawned masters make names for Trance Syndicate representing virtu- themselves outside came along, that ally every genre, their hometowns. is. The 4- year -old from country to "Each major city label, helmed by Butthole Surfers blues, tejano to 13\veh O has developed a sup- drummer King Coffey, is a critical That was 1982, and little did the rock. Blind Lemon et port network of and commercial success that has owner of Hogwild Records & Tapes Jefferson, Leadbel- ey varying degrees for spawned a legion of underground know that the gun dealers would look ly, T -Bone Walker, its beginner rock rock labels here. pretty good compared with what he Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills, Roy Orbi - bands," says Casey Monahan, ex- "The Butthole Surfers had to go to would have to deal with eight years son, Buddy Holly, George Strait, ecutive director of the Texas Mu- (Continued on page 47) later. But that's jumping ahead. Don Henley, the sic Office, a govern- Risher traces his entry into the mu- members of ZZ Top ment organization sic business back to 1977, when he and Asleep At The that promotes and was a graduate student in economics Wheel, and, of supports all kinds of and "thought the first Elvis Costello course, Willie Nel- music emanating record was a lot more important than son are just a few of from the Lone Star YIIAE s what I was being taught." So he and the artists raised on THE N IXONS State. "It involves a 8 HOlIOAY PRODUCE 9HOWCA9E a friend tried to launch a record label. Texan soil. (Continued on page 38) (Continued on page 99) SEE PAGES 53 AND 77 IN THIS ISSUE Woodstock Il: The Sound And The Fury Freed ohnston " * *. Nobody soiAnds Tike Freely JokVSI-0 x. He's an Anerican orì9ìnal. "- ROWE! AOMI PAGES 17 & 114 ** "A rewarkable bai-ch oP 1-oIA9lA, lii-eral -e, hotiiNi ivt songs. A 9ewx. "- EMI MEW YORKER "Ine -Fably AMelodìc, near -perPeci- pop 1'RAnes. A. 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The pale auto- with its shattering chorus regarding callous desire: "Sex sells THE BILLBOARD 200 mobile's license plate read "JUST ICE." And the woman, who everything/And sex kills." * THE LION KING SOUNDTRACK WALT DISNEY happened to be one of the world's finest songwriters, couldn't "For the second time in recent historic memory, we have a help wondering if justice really was merely the means to be cold. sexually transmitted plague," says Mitchell. "Before the discov- T TOP CLASSICAL 46 "I still believe in the power of the word, that words inspire," ery [in 1928] of penicillin, the earlier scourge was syphilis, and * CHANT BENEDICTINE MONKS ANGEL [1837 O says Joni Mitchell, and in considering the proposition that the cultural response during Queen Victoria's reign -1901] chance and a traffic sign had placed before her, she later turned was a prudish conservatism that made open pregnancy indis- P' TOP CLASSICAL CROSSOVER to Plato's Republic, a philosophical discussion of moral ideals creet and put long skirts on everything, including piano legs! * THE PIANO MICHAEL NYMAN VIRGIN written and dramatized four centuries before Christ. "I also be- Meantime, I'm told the London whorehouses were never so pop- lieve in the idea that the performing arts, including songs and ular. Back then, the fearfulness created some public courtesies, A COUNTRY 32 plays, are capable of slowing people down and touching their but these days the family structure is rocking and nihilism is L * NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON TIM McGRAW CURB souls in order to generate thoughtfulness. The premise of rampant among the young. B Plato's play is the presentation of the argument that the strong "But I don't like using scary or tragic chords in heavy mate- HEATSEEKERS 21 do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must, debating rial like `Sex Kills.' Music provides the emotional skeleton for u * THE WAY THAT I AM MARTINA McBRIDE RCA if that's both true and fair." a lyrical plot, and songs need to be more direct M In the act of exploring these and other related than poetry because the hybrid of pretty sounds S JAZZ 47 notions, Mitchell would create an inspiring, 10- and serious images creates pathos. So I try to * MW UNPLUGGED TONY BENNETT COLUMBIA song series of musical dialogs and playlets that lighten up melodically to open the listener's comprise this autumn's "Turbulent Indigo" (Re- heart." JAZZ / CONTEMPORARY 47 prise, due Oct. 25), one of the most commanding music A native of Alberta, Canada, Mitchell was * BREATHLESS KENNY G ARISTA statements of a peerless, 17 -album career that TO MY EARS born Roberta Joan Anderson Nov. 7, 1943, her has itself questioned most accepted precepts in adult surname being the result of a brief mid - R &B popular music. "The arts are an important part '60s marriage to fellow folksinger Chuck Mit- * WE COME STRAPPED 24 MC EIHT FEATURING CMW EPIC STREET of cultural justice," says Mitchell, "and truth and chell. At age 9, Joni contracted polio in an epi- beauty are the essence of their greatness, so art- demic that swept her country, "and it was pre- ists have a big responsibility in every era to dicted I might never walk again." Like Job, she THE HOT 100 130 * I'LL MAKE LOVE TO YOU BOYZ II MEN MOTOWN probe the rules by which we live, inquiring resisted the temptation to curse the Almighty whether they serve us well." for her ill fortune, though she does recall ADULT CONTEMPORARY By means of "Turbulent Indigo" material like screaming out Christmas carols in her hospital *CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT 121 "Magdalene Laundries" (named for the Irish ward as a gesture of secular defiance.