Its miners blast and clear roughly six square metres (64.6 square feet) of rock, per man, per month.
Producers are bewitched by the rock-bottom cost of deploying a single man (usually) with a mic, just as in the music industry singer-songwriters are said to be outdoing more expensive bands.
In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.
Lendway, who produced the IFC comedy series Z-Rock, reminds us that Spider-Man remains one of the hottest tickets in town.
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Interest rates are the definition of rock-bottom low, but to paraphrase a wise man (whose name rhymes with Milton Friedman), interest rates alone say nothing about whether central bank policy is hawkish or dovish.
The eclectic mix of blues-rock and psychedelic-funk tracks includes "Mojo Man" which opens with a big Ronettes beat before lurching into a Memphis horn grind.
Like the Jews, the Muslims came to see the Rock as a meeting point between God and Man, the centre of the earth, the origin of all fertility.
Like Jim Michaels, Peale was a small man with a rock-quarry voice and the moral authority of Moses.
Rock star David Bowie was voted the most stylish man at GQ magazine's Men Of The Year Awards.
On the lake's northern shore, a fossil of a giant femur bone, bigger than an adult man, leans against a rock-face and signals your arrival at the Lago Barreales Paleontological Center.
Never mind fashioning dog food in the image of a homeless man, riding the rails or a soul-food restaurant in east Little Rock.
For a man who can pump out such blistering, no-nonsense post-punk hard rock, the air of the more mannered art-school rocker hangs thickly around Jack White.
Down in the rock pools, then, the news seems to be mixed: nature is showing a remarkable resilience in the face of man-made interference, but it is still far from clear what the wider impact will be from small changes to local ecology.
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Dave Grohl has parlayed his drummer gig for one of the most influential rock bands of the last quarter-century (that's Nirvana, in case you forgot) into the front man role with perennial Grammy winner Foo Fighters and is now a sort of de facto spokesman for the world of rock.
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