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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 2016 l i f e s t y l e Music & Movies Chili Peppers to play as new emerges

ed Hot Chili Peppers will headline the Godrich as well as Danger Mouse, a diverse pro- traveling festival to celebrate music and alternative Lollapalooza festival, it was announced yes- ducer with a background in hip-hop who worked culture. The festival declined as fans increasingly Rterday, as the alternative rock greats com- on the latest by Adele and . The album, found it too commercialized, but was reborn in plete work on their first album in five years. The whose release date and title have not been 2005 as an annual event in Chicago’s Grant Park. July 28-31 festival in Chicago, which is marking its revealed, will be the first since the Chili Peppers’ Lollapalooza has since expanded internation- 25th anniversary, also said that Radiohead would 2011 “I’m With You,” which brought in new guitarist ally, with editions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and perform, in the latest date for the acclaimed British Josh Klinghoffer. The Chili Peppers emerged in , with a Colombian version to debut in arthouse rockers whose small arena tour sold out as they brought elements October. For the 25th anniversary, Lollapalooza within minutes. frontman into punk rock. is expanding to four days in Chicago, one day Anthony Kiedis last month told a radio station that Each of the band’s albums has entered the top longer than usual. Other performers include LCD the band had written “two dozen songs” and was five on the US chart since “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” Soundsystem, the influential New York electron- “in the home stretch” of selecting and recording which came out in 1991 during a surge of interest ic act that is reuniting for April’s Coachella festi- them for the new album. for music outside the pop mainstream. val in California, as well as rappers J Cole and Band members have said they were in the stu- Lollapalooza was launched that year by Jane’s Future. — AFP This file photo shows the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform during Super Bowl 48 at MetLife dio with longtime Radiohead collaborator Nigel Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, who envisioned a stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on February 2, 2014. — AFP

Phife Dawg of hip-hop legends Dealing with loss dies helped

hife Dawg, the high-pitched but street-smart rapper Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm,” on which Phife tackle songwriting whose pioneering group A Tribe Called Quest brought a Dawg appeared on only four tracks, offered quirky humor that Pfresh artistic aesthetic to hip-hop, has died, a colleague brought an early following. The group’s two follow-up albums, fter back-to-back tours and albums, Bonnie said yesterday. He was 45. DJ Chuck Chillout, a prominent New “The ” and “” quickly Raitt said finally finding time to deal with the York hip-hop DJ who has long played A Tribe Called Quest, became considered hip-hop classics for their incorporation of Adeaths of her father, mother and brother announced ’s death on Twitter but did not reveal which eschewed standard radio formulas. helped her break writer’s block and craft songs for further details. Phife Dawg, whose real name was Malik Taylor, “Midnight Marauders” also brought in a more political her latest album and tour. “I don’t write often and has long spoken of health problems including his struggles edge, with references to racial oppression and spiritual uplift. easily ...This particular time after a period of about 10 with diabetes and had a kidney transplant in 2008. Phife Dawg, in an interview last month as A Tribe Called Quest years when my family - my parents and my older Phife Dawg formed A Tribe Called Quest in the mid-1980s prepared to reissue its albums, said that he never expected to brother - were all ill and passed away in a short peri- with Q-Tip, his classmate in the New York borough of become famous out of his neighborhood. He attributed the od of time... I was pretty fried, and I took 2010 as a whose thoroughfare of would feature in the group’s success with thinking big rather than pursuing indi- complete break from thinking about what I wanted lyrics. The two rappers became one of hip-hop’s defining pairs, vidual tracks, unlike many rappers. “We wanted the longevity to do next,” she said. “(I did) some grief work with a with Phife Dawg, whose voice in early recordings was marked- of Earth, Wind and Fire and Prince and people of that nature. support person and I just really felt all the things that ly high, generally playing the shrewd back-up man to the We didn’t want to be two-hit and three-hit wonders,” he told had been pushed aside by all that loss and trauma. cerebral Q-Tip. Tensions were never far from the surface, with . Phife Dawg-who called himself the Five-Foot And I came out of it really grateful.” Phife Dawg gradually taking more vocals but Q-Tip becoming Assassin for his short physique-tried a solo career with a 2000 “Dig In Deep,” released last month, features a the face of A Tribe Called Quest and going on to a successful album, “Ventilation: Da LP,” but met mixed reviews and eventu- number of personal songs Raitt co-wrote as well as solo career, recently being named the first artistic director for ally saw his career clouded by health issues. — AFP her signature guitar. She also said she got a boost hip-hop at the Kennedy Center in Washington. from her last album, 2012’s “Slipstream,” which won A Tribe Called Quest-at times a four- or three-man group the Grammy for best Americana album. “I was rejuve- This file photo shows Rapper Malik ‘Phife nated by ‘Slipstream’ ... and I co-wrote a song on that and best known for the hit song “Can I Kick It?”-helped chart a Dawg’ Taylor at the premiere of ‘Beats, new direction for rap beyond straightforward rhyming and one with my guitarist ...The words didn’t go, so it Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called forced me to write some songs that went with what beats, with the group often described as pioneers of alterna- Quest’ during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival tive hip-hop. The group’s debut album, 1990’s “People’s my experience was, and that kind of got the wheels at BMCC Tribeca PAC in New York. — AFP greased,” she said. “I kind of wrote on assignment. ...After all that loss, to finally have the time and free- dom and not have to be worrying about family mem- Leonardo DiCaprio says China bers, I had more opportunity to write.” International dates On the new album, 66-year-old Raitt co-wrote five can be ‘climate change hero’ of the 12 tracks, including upbeat album opener “Unintended of Love” and the political “The Comin’ Round Is Going Through.” The album also eonardo DiCaprio praised China’s work world that that is their intention.” DiCaprio includes her versions of INXS’ “” and to combat climate change on a trip to was in Beijing to promote “The Revenant,” Los Lobos’ “Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes.” She said the sec- LBeijing on Sunday, and said he believes which won him his first Oscar, for best actor, ond verse of the piano ballad “The Ones We Couldn’t the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gas- at this year’s ceremony. The movie was Be,” which she co-wrote, is “really about family mem- es could be “the hero of the environmental released in mainland China on Friday and has bers.” “I know they were sorry they couldn’t be what I movement.” The actor and environmentalist, already earned 100 million yuan ($15 million) needed and I was sorry I couldn’t live up to the who called for action to combat climate at the Chinese box office, according to an expectations,” she said. “And at the time when the change during his Oscar acceptance speech announcement at Sunday’s news conference. relationship’s not working or you’re under stress, you last month, praised China’s shift toward DiCaprio, who has made several trips to tend to put blame not necessarily where it’s really In this Feb 9, 2016 photo, John Taylor from the band Duran Duran poses for a portrait. — AP renewable forms of energy to lower carbon China in the past, is one of China’s most pop- accurate - it’s all about them, if only they acted differ- emissions. “As we all know, the ular Hollywood actors, mainly because of his ent - so the reckoning that happens years later is and China are the two biggest contributors, performance in “Titanic,” one of his few films your realize you both just did the best you could.” Bassist John Taylor spills Duran and I think that China has made radical move- that have been shown in mainland Chinese The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, whose hits ments forward as far as alternative energy cinemas. He is affectionately called Xiao Li, include “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” “Something to and ways to be sustainable,” he said at a news or Little Lee, by Chinese. China is the world’s Talk About” and “Love Sneakin’ Up on You,” said she’s Duran secrets ahead of tour conference. largest coal user and producer, but has also thrilled to be touring with the new songs. The “I really think that China can be the hero of become a leading investor in renewable “Bonnie Live in 2016” tour kicked off last week and ohn Taylor is an only child, but if he’s ever good thing, because it allows us to the environmental movement, they can be forms of energy, such as solar and wind will visit , Oakland, Austin and experienced anything like a family road change and morph.” the hero of the climate change movement,” power. — AP Nashville, Tennessee. She will also play international Jtrip, it’s been while on tour with Duran • The band never knew what lead singer he said. “They have an opportunity to change dates in the summer. Raitt also said there was some Duran. The British rockers are about to get Simon LeBon was talking about in some the world and I have all the confidence in the anxiety when she began writing for her new album. that old family feeling again as they head out of their early songs: “In the ‘80s, Simon “It made me nervous knowing I was going to be writ- for a North American tour with dates sched- had very specific way of writing lyrics - ing more of the songs and I was saying, ‘Oh my God, I uled through summer. The “Paper Gods Tour,” which was amazing - and half the time I know so many people out there, they’re gonna say, which kicks off Friday, is split into two month had no idea what he was singing about. ‘This one unfortunately is not as good,’” she said. “I long legs: the first covers the east coast from And none of us really did. But it didn’t don’t like to be compared (to myself), I just wish ’s Niagara Falls to San Juan, Puerto matter, because the pictures he was mak- everybody would say, ‘She’s doing the best she can’ - Rico; the second launches July 6 in Nashville, ing were extraordinary.” especially because it was more risk with my own Tennessee, and wraps in Glendale, Arizona. • Taylor was disappointed the “Paper Gods” tunes. But so far everyone’s relating to them so I’m Sitting in a sunny room at Warner Bros. album didn’t get a Grammy nod: “That really smiling a lot these days.” Records recently, Taylor, 55, shared a few was just something that was driving me Raitt also wants more people outside of her fan secrets about himself and the musical family through the second year of the making of base to gravitate to the new music: “I hope people he calls Duran. Touring now is not like it was in ‘Paper Gods.’ I was like, ‘This is why I’m can relate to it, no matter what age they are.” Though the 1980s: “When people say how’s it like now doing it.’ None of the rest of the band it’s hard to tell, Raitt said she started to play guitar compared to how it was, they’re probably could care less, but it was driving me.” and write songs as a “hobby.” She recalls getting her thinking of the ‘80s, the crazy ‘80s - particularly • He regrets that the Internet has made first guitar for Christmas and playing some much her the early ‘80s, where the band sort of cruised music so easy to “burn through”: “All art, fingers bleed. “I just played till I had calluses and my at a very high altitude for a couple of years. whether it’s music or painting or cinema, fingers bleed and I just learned every Joan Baez song Well, I wouldn’t want to work like that again... I it’s got a shelf life. It doesn’t matter how I could learn, and I became the camp fire counselor think when fame hits you - we were quite good you like it, you’re going to burn that sang the songs at my camp,” she said. “And I just young, we’d only been in the business for like through it. And there’s something about thought music can change the world, and I still feel two years really when it started taking off. We delayed gratification. And certainly to me, that way.” — AP weren’t really - well I wasn’t really ready for it. some of my favorite music, it took me a It’s like being given your first car - and it’s a long time to get hold of it and when I got Ferrari. So now we’re in a Buick. It’s a very it, it was precious. I knew every note, sedate Buick, but it gets around into all the every beat of those songs. And now, sightseeing trips. It’s good.” music’s almost too accessible. It’s too easy • Duran Duran reinvents itself with every to get a hold of... Now I almost want music album: “It’s like a restyling exercise always. to be harder to get. I want the experience And I think that’s the blessing and the to be a little bit harder. I need to appreci- curse of being in Duran, which is a band ate it. I need to work for it. And that way I whose blueprint was really based on will appreciate it more.” — AP being modern. We weren’t like the Stones, who are really rooted in R&B. We just had American actor Leonardo DiCaprio pounds the casks of Japanese sake to celebrate the this thing, and it’s essentially kind of a Japan premiere of his new movie ‘The Revenant’ in Tokyo, Japan, yesterday. — AP Hilary Swank announces engagement to former tennis pro

ilary Swank has announced she is Dollar Baby.” The 41-year-old actress was engaged to former tennis pro previously married to actor Chad Lowe. The HRuben Torres. The two-time Oscar Colombian-born Torres attended the winner on Tuesday announced her engage- University of Southern California and ment on the social media site Instagram. played his last professional tennis match in Swank wrote that Torres proposed while on 2008.—AP In this March 7, 2016 photo, singer Bonnie Raitt a hike, and she posted a photo the couple poses for a portrait in New York to promote her hugging and smiling. new album, Dig In Deep.’ — AP In this file photo, actress Hilary Swank, left, and Ruben Torres attend the Vanity Fair Oscar Swank won best actress Academy Party in Beverly Hills, Calif. — AP Awards for “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Million