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Artist Essentials
6/14/2011
A complete portrait of singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik is made up of many stylistic snapshots - take the buffed-edge folk-pop of "She Runs Away," the spare narrative imagery of "A Mirror in the Heart," …
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Genres & History
6/14/2011
The Coasters' cover of the James Hanley standard, "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" - the flip to their mega-smash "Yakety Yak" - is alleged to be writer-producers Leiber & Stoller's favorite doo-wo …
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Genres & History
6/14/2011
As you wander towards the shore this summer, iPod in hand, please have a kind thought for your forebears, for whom the lo-fi transistor radio was the only portable listening device. Even then, they wer …
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Artist Essentials
6/14/2011
Here's where we go deep to bring you the best of Michael W. Smith's decades' worth of rarities, seasonal songs, one-offs, and worthy album tracks. Smith brings in the angelic voices of a boys choir for …
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Artist Essentials
6/14/2011
It was 1979 when, after years of struggling with drugs and alcohol, Michael Whitaker Smith rededicated himself to praising God through music. Already a Nashville fixture, he began writing songs for the …
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My Groove
6/14/2011
Let that big world out there wait for just a little while: every graduate has got some downtime coming, so celebrate your scholastic unshackling with some freedom rockers. No one ever said it better fo …
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My Groove
6/14/2011
You've come a long way, baby, so you should enjoy the fruits of your labor as you bid goodbye to the past and keep an eager eye towards tomorrow. Graduation day marks a major milestone, but it also mak …
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Genres & History
6/14/2011
Kid 606's reputation as a battering-ram technician is obliterated within a few seconds of hearing the subdued, ambient techno in "Spanish Song." It's one of many sonic surprises that unfold during our …
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Genres & History
6/14/2011
When "electronica" first burst onto the scene in the mid-'90s, it catered to velvet rope-lined clubs and adrenaline-fueled rock kids, leaving underground music fans pining for their own personal soundt …
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