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Three items at the top of today's music news:
Article on NHHPC. The Hip-Hop Convention in Newark examines the Message in the Music: "Hip-Hop has the power to make Japanese people want to learn to speak English," said Newark-based underground artist Lady Luck. "We haven't even seen how much power there is in hip-hop.")
The Pistol Packin' Padre (A Mexican Parish Prist)
Stongehenge Rocks. BBC News Online examines how a small gathering of hippies celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge evolved into the high point of the British counter-cultural calendar. (Why Thatcher took on the New Age Music Festival)