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My Groove
5/17/2011
Night driving is the best: the traffic has thinned to a trickle, and you're guided to your destination by a ghostly matrix of neon, halogen, and cats' eyes, alone with your thoughts, free to think. Wha …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
DJ Shadow is an unlikely hip-hop hero. As befitting of his name, he dodges the spotlight, preferring to let his meticulously crafted symphonies speak for him. Shadow's music has the ability to shape-sh …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
While Alice In Chains eventually reunited without their founding frontman - singer Layne Staley, who died of a drug overdose in 2002 - the band's first round of albums will never leave their set list. …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
Soundgarden isn't the only Seattle band with as much in common with alternative music as heavy metal. Alice In Chains also prayed to Black Sabbath when they weren't writing slacker-rock anthems, which …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
The question couldn't have been clearer: "Arrrre youuu readddy?" To which a million Korn fans answered, "Hell, yeah," treating the opening seconds of "Blind" as one massive battle cry. Both a nu …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
Time to penetrate to the core of what Me'Shell Ndegeocello's all about. There's a deep sensuality shining through all of her many musical personalities. Sometimes it's soft and tender, like the …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
From one song to the next, sometimes it seems like there are a dozen different artists all occupying a single organism that answers to the name Me'Shell Ndegeocello. Anybody who can lay down jazz jams …
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Artist Essentials
5/17/2011
"Live every moment like it was my last one," sings Jordin Sparks on her smash hit "Tattoo," and it's a sentiment that she clearly takes to heart. Jordin was the youngest American Idol champion e …
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Genres & History
5/17/2011
In a career that spanned 40 years of recording and performing live, singer Amalia Rodrigues defined the mystique of what authentic fado is all about. Legendary tracks like "Coimbra" and "Uma Cas …
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