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CORRECTION: SEE CORRECTION APPENDED; Record label -- An article in Sunday's Calendar about the Raveonettes gave the wrong release date and label for the band's mini-album. It comes out March 18 on Columbia Records, not last week on Crunchy Frog. In the same article, an incorrect credit was attributed to record producer Richard Gottehrer. He wrote and produced "My Boyfriend's Back," not "Leader of the Pack."
Rolling Stone magazine's biannual "Next Wave" list, a kind of tip sheet on promising new acts, is where a lot of pop fans first read about the White Stripes, John Mayer and Norah Jones, all of whom went on to major success during 2002.
If history repeats itself, the Raveonettes will be one of this year's hit arrivals -- the garage-rock duo from Denmark tops this season's "Next Wave."
That means different things to different people.
"The Rolling Stone piece ups the ante a little," says Mitchell Cohen, senior vice president of artists and repertoire at Columbia Records. "There's an awareness of the Raveonettes -- 'Oh, I read about them; they sound interesting,' that kind of thing. That stamp of approval helps at press, retail and radio to some extent."
But for the band, it has less meaning, particularly in shaping the sound of its new album, due this summer...