THE LYRIC CHAMBER ENSEMBLE presents THE BRIDGE ENSEMBLE One of America's fastest rising chamber groups - bridging the cultures of Russia and America through music - /=) / N_ label for the heavy punk-influ- enced music being made in Seat- tle before Nirvana turned that city into a mecca for talent scouts. Hassidic. Don't look in the rap section of the music store. Heavy Metal. Another genre that's been subdivided like crazy. Metallica, AC/DC and Ozzy Os- bourne still keep the banner fly- ing, though. Hip-Hop. The blanket head- ing for street culture that includes rap, bfeakdancing, scratching and graffiti art. It's become an al- ternative (sorry) term for less vi- olent forms of rap, too. Hot A/C. Adult Contemporary that picks up the softer side of CHR — the Cranberries or R.E.M., for instance. Industrial. Another accu- rately descriptive label. Driving, intense, mechanical music that sounds like it was created in a clanging, sweltering steel mill. The masters of the art are Min- istry and Nine Inch Nails, though the lat- ter has moved in more melod- ic directions. Modern. As in modem rock, a preferable alter- native to Alterna- tive. Still a difficult distinction, though, considering bands such as Hootie & the Blowfish and Gin Blossoms sound like they were transported via some 1970s sound machine. New Age Slightly more tuneful than am- bient, this mostly instrumental form uses bits of jazz and touches of folk. You can play it for hours and not remember a note of what you heard. New Jack/Jill. R&B that in- corporates old soul values and modem hip-hop techniques. Sam- ple via Boyz II Men, Mary J. Blige or Babyface. New Wave. A defunct late 1970s/early 1980s term, even if it does apply to three-quarters of what we now call Alternative. Pop. What? Do you think you can get away with something this general. Power Pop. Punk meets CHR, — the Monkees with louder gui- tars, or proof that the Beatles' in- fluence never dies. A group like Green Day epitomizes the form. Punk. It's about attitude as much as music. Jerry Lee Lewis was a punk; so were the Rolling Stones, the MC5, the Sex Pistols and the Clash. These days, Ran- cid and Pennywise are among the scores of bands carrying on the tradition. Rap. Beat-driven urban word poetry that's evolved in directions that are ugly (gangsta rap) or in- triguing, such as the blending of rap and jazz by Digable Planets and Jazzmatazz. Retro. A nicer name for oldies. In respect to Alternative, it means early punkers and new wavers such as the Clash, the Jam, or Duran Duran. Or a new Lenny Kravitz album. Rockabilly Twangy, rootsy rock drawn directly from early Sun Records legends such as Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Roy Orbison. With an under- ground scene currently brewing, this is likely the Next Big Thing. Rock 'N' Roll. See Pop. Ska. A frenetic form of reggae blended with punk energy. It made it to radio this year with Rancid's Time Bomb. Soul. The great days of Mo- town and Stax may be gone, but the good news is that Al Green has returned to sec- ular music and a few youngsters, such as D'Angelo, are picking up the mantle. Speed Metal. Just what the name implies. It's heavy — and fast. Techno. Modern disco, /4k more electron- ic sounding and mostly instrumental, cre- ated by Detroiters such as Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. Thrash. More rock 'n' roll ono- matopoeia; it's an- other form of metal with a more grinding quality. Of course there are still some who would use it to describe Chuck Berry. Trick Hop. Hip-hop with smooth grooves and a woozy psy- chedelic ambience. Check out massive attack or Soul II Soul. Unplugged. Geez. Kiss just did one of these acoustic sessions, so it really is a genre in which everyone can rent space. Urban. The industry term for soul, though it's a nice umbrella that radio can play any kind of R&B under. World Music. Anything that's polyrhythmic and comes from anywhere south of the Equator. It covers a lot of territory, much of it worth exploring. Young Country. The genre that's left George Jones, Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton in the cold. Heck, even Garth Brooks and Travis Tritt — whos careers are less than a decade old — seem like senior citizens next to new, bucks like The Mav- jo Michael Mont- ericks- and hn gomery. 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