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Artist Essentials
8/23/2011
The rap game's been T.I.'s domain for barely five years, yet the Atlanta native remains one of the scene's most consistent superstars. That's been the case ever since he dropped the bumping, trunk-test …
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Artist Essentials
8/23/2011
The more you dig around in Morricone's archives, the more you appreciate his range, and realize his thematic links with 20th-century classical composers, most notably John Cage and countryman Luciano B …
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Artist Essentials
8/23/2011
Generally associated with Clint Eastwood's "Man with No Name" from the Sergio Leone westerns of the '60s, the expertly themed work of Ennio Morricone has confirmed the importance and influence of the m …
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Artist Essentials
8/23/2011
Over the last decade, Taking Back Sunday has earned a lofty reputation among lovers of emo and post-hardcore, but their sound digs deeper than those definitions might suggest. Those who know them solel …
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Artist Essentials
8/23/2011
Taking Back Sunday entered the 2000s as a bunch of young indie-rock upstarts with everything to prove, and they ended it as major-label men with a stack of Gold records and a huge following hungry for …
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Genres & History
8/23/2011
Watch your head, what with all these beats ringing and ravaging the neon-tinged air like gunshots, testing the stamina of every ear canal in the club. Which is an appropriate analogy, really, given tha …
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Genres & History
8/23/2011
Don't let all the synthesizers and drum machines make you think there was no room for good ol' guitar-driven rock & roll in the new wave world. The Only Ones fused punky energy and power-pop hooks on t …
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Genres & History
8/23/2011
You need only lend an ear to the bands of today who worship at the '80s altar to realize that new wave is an ongoing experience, not an artifact of the past. Whether you want to backtrack to discover t …
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Artist Essentials
8/23/2011
A quick scan of the top-notch MCs splitting verses with Lil Wayne in the following songs - OutKast, Ja Rule, Jim Jones, T.I., Snoop Dogg, and Juelz Santana to name just a few - is impressive enough, bu …
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