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9/12/2011
As massive as Queen's studio sonics are, the band is, somehow, even more colossal in front of a live audience. Whether it's Freddie striding under the spotlight with the intensity of a caged lion, Bria …
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9/12/2011
Sure, Billy Joel's physical roots are planted firmly in New York City . . . but his musical roots? They stretch out in every imaginable direction through space and time, from the British Invasion to th …
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9/8/2011
Just because you can make magic in the studio doesn't mean you can make it onstage. But Bennett has proven, over and over again, that he's the absolute embodiment of a golden age of showmanship. At the …
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9/8/2011
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9/6/2011
Take a frequently uninspired chestnut, such as Vivaldi's Le Quattro Stagioni (a.k.a. The Four Seasons), and Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman positively reanimates it. And when confronted …
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My Groove
9/6/2011
Deep Cuts honors one of the fallen with the patriotic swing of "American Patrol" by Major Glenn Miller, who gave his during life during WWII when his plane went down en route to entertain the troops. T …
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9/6/2011
It's the original song of American fortitude, a stirring story of the starred-and-striped symbol under which we unite; it's "The Star Spangled Banner," and it gets a rousing a cappella treatment from c …
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9/6/2011
It doesn't seem possible that the same band can have cut R&B classics in the '50s and '60s, pioneered a new rock-funk fusion in the '70s, and still be breaking boundaries with a blend of soul and hip-h …
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9/6/2011
Reviving the classics of her childhood ("Sweet Thing," "I'm Going Down") while making new ones of her own (the Babyface-penned "Not Goin' Cry"), Mary J. Blige is proof that while soul music changes, th …
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