![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() tickets are $8.Įven when Yothu Yindi is playing straight-ahead rock-and-roll, this Australian aboriginal ensemble always retains elements of its traditional music. Monday at the Academy, 234 West 43d Street in Manhattan, (212) 840-9500. Also: Sunday at the Amazon, Pier 25 at North Moore Street and the Hudson River, Manhattan, (212) 227-2900. Tomorrow at Wetlands, 161 Hudson Street, Manhattan, (212) 966-4225. What follows is a closer look at the way five bands performing during the seminar deal with the boundaries, or lack thereof, of their chosen styles. Even Straitjacket Fits, a relatively old-fashioned rock band from New Zealand, tries to reconcile pop melodics with noise dynamics. Yothu Yindi, a predominantly aboriginal group from Australia, tries to marry its ancient indigenous music with contemporary Western rock. Fatima Mansions from Ireland recasts pop, rock and noise into a jittery, semi-schizophrenic collage that's as unpredictable as Madonna's next image. If the vast variety of bands represented at the 12th New Music Seminar shows a breakdown of categories on a large scale, many of the individual bands reflect the same trend within their own music.įishbone and Shabba Ranks, two of the seminar's major headlining groups, offer amalgams of rock-funk-hip hop and reggae-dancehall-funk-hip hop, respectively. What's national will be international, what's old will be new, and barriers between different areas of pop music will be trampled and thrown down in the name of a new polyocracy. Pretty soon, everything is going to be new music. Seminar panels include "The Americanization of World Radio" and "Rap, Metal, Alternative: We're All in the Same Gang." One showcase is titled "The History of Our Future." FROM the MTV program "120 Minutes" to the alternative departments at major record labels to the New Music Seminar, an annual music-industry conference that begins this weekend at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Manhattan, new music has grown to be a serious business over the past few years.įor the next six days, the seminar and its live-music branch, New Music Nights, will bring more than 400 bands and 8,000 music-industry delegates into New York this year, the "new music" umbrella includes metal, rap, dance music, pop, Latin, reggae, funk, African, house, rave, avant-garde jazz, techno-pop, folk-rock, punk, Mexican, Spanish, Irish, Russian, rockabilly, calypso, Eastern European and various recombinations of all of the above. ![]()
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