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Artist Essentials
6/20/2011
If the carefree sounds of Jack Johnson's gentle pop point to a man at peace with the world and his platinum-selling place in it, well, that's not hard to believe - a native Hawaiian, champion surfer, r …
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Genres & History
6/20/2011
Hey, what goes around comes around. Supposedly hung, drawn, and quartered by punk, progressive rock - once seen as dinosaur - refused to call it quits, and was given an injection of fresh blood by the …
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Genres & History
6/20/2011
Nineteen seventy-four was the year when cultural happenings became hugely popular novelty songs. Pacifism found an anthem in the antiwar "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods; exhibit …
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Genres & History
6/20/2011
Our '60s Pop Essentials simply wouldn't be complete without a boatload of British Invaders: Manfred Mann ("The Mighty Quinn"), Herman's Hermits ("Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"), the …
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Genres & History
6/20/2011
These are the sounds that defined the AM airwaves - the sounds that made the '60s arguably the greatest decade for pop music. Yes, the era that gave us psychedelia; garage rock; folk; and yearnin', bur …
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Genres & History
6/20/2011
A simple request: Stick your hands in a couple cans of neon paint and then spread that mess like a madder-than-usual Jackson Pollock. Now you've got an exploding canvas of colors that look the way Boll …
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Artist Essentials
6/20/2011
Searing, scorched-earth confessionals? We love 'em. And so did millions upon millions of listeners when Canadian teen-queen Alanis Morissette immolated her pop-tart image with the raw and righteous alt …
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Artist Essentials
6/20/2011
Hypnotic and haunting, "The Way It Really Is" is just that: a devastating snapshot of relationships as they all too often are - dramatic, complicated, disappointing. And from the euphoric "Snow Day," a …
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Artist Essentials
6/20/2011
As a solo artist, with her band Nine Stories, and in a string of collaborations with the likes of Elizabeth Mitchell (a member of the indie folk/pop band Ida), Dweezil Zappa, and nberproducers G …
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