PINK

�So What� (Zomba): B+

So much for amicable breakups. Since visiting Splitsville with hubby/motocross star topology Carey Hart, Pink has taken the high road in the press, simply in real life she�s laughing all the way to the studio.

The leading single turned her fifth album is almost whole directed at Hart and teeters 'tween self-empowerment and schoolyard parody, from the opening chants of �na na na na na na na� to the icy chorus, �So, so what?/I�m motionless a rock star/I got my rock'n'roll moves/and I don�t demand you/And infer what?/I�m having more fun/and now that we�re done/I�m gonna show you tonight/I�m alright, I�m just fine/and you�re a tool/so, so what?�

Perhaps the lady doth protest too much, as hints of loneliness and absent-husband syndrome creep in. Regardless, breakups, attitude and guitar riffs sure make for fun music.

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When music barely pays the bills

Tim Eckert's job requires a light touch and a mensuration of heavy lifting.

As a routine classical musician, he lugs a 40-pound double bass from business district Los Angeles to Century City to Azusa and points in between.

"In the most reductionist price, I am paid to come in with my bass and play these notes," he said, transactions before descending, tuxedo-clad, into the orchestra pit at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. "We ar the laborers."

























Eckert's quotidian illustrates how the business of producing beautiful sounds can

Fatal

   
Artist: Fatal

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 Transparent (TPT011)

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 2

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Rapper Fatal first surfaced as a appendage of the Outlaws, a collective organized by Tupac Shakur during his 1994 immurement in an upstate New York prison house mobile telephone set. Also including rapper Khadafi, the Outlaws made their recorded debut on Shakur's All Eyez on Me album; however, afterward Shakur and Khadafi were both murdered in separate 1996 incidents, Fatal was forced to go it solitary, signing with the Relativity label to release his solo debut In the Line of Fire.





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Rob Stevenson to be president of Virgin US

Will begin Aug. 15




EMI Music has appointed Rob Stevenson to president of Virgin US, effective Aug. 15. He will be based in the company's New York office and report to Nick Gatfield, president of A&R for North America, U.K. and Ireland at EMI Music.

Most late, Stevenson was executive VP of A&R at Island Def Jam Music Group in the United States. In that role, he signed and helped develop such artists as Fall Out Boy, the Killers, the Bravery, Sum 41, Lady Sovereign, Saliva and Thrice, among others.

In addition to his A&R persona, Stevenson also served as president of Stolen Transmission, a joint venture imprint label with Island Def Jam Music Group. Prior to that, he held various older A&R positions at Universal Music Group.