BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK Jakob Dylan says he knows what reviewers will write about his first solo recording, the Rick Rubin-produced “Seeing Things,” which goes on sale June 10. *”The article’s going to say, ‘Dylan goes acoustic’,” he tells NEWSWEEK with a laugh. “I can give you 20 references of what the [writers] will say to be witty.” Those familiar with Dylan’s tenure as leader of rock band the Wallflowers know that this son of Bob Dylan has spent the better part

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR NEWSWEEK If you’re annoyed by those relentlessly happy people who put smiley faces in e-mails, Aimee Mann’s new album is for you: “@#%&! Smilers!” With its scheduled June 3 release, Mann seems to be suggesting that we all take her music a little less seriously from now on. Despite her Grammy-winning couplets about missed opportunities and wayward souls, Mann is not one of the desperate characters in her songs. Somewhere between 1999’s “Magnolia” soun

BY KRISTI YORK WOOTEN FOR CREATIVE LOAFING More than a year after Ken Burns’ Jazz aired on PBS, the debate over the series’ fairness continues to resurface everywhere from The New York Times to Salon. Many musicians, fans and critics feel the 16-hour television series wrongly omitted decades of important music and some of the genre’s key players — namely the white ones. One player missing from the documentary is pianist Keith Jarrett, who blames the Jazz controversy on Burns’

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