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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
The Strokes burned bright and bold for three straight albums, then took a battery-recharging break before bounding back into the spotlight with Angles. But don't think they weren't keeping busy during …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
The Strokes' scrappy, neo-garage growl poked a sleepy music scene in the ribs with raw-boned rave-ups for a new century. With Julian Casablancas' lupine howl and the back-alley, barbed-wire guitar blas …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
The White Stripes made their name as garage-rockin', blues-blastin' undergrounders who ascended to arena status. But along the way, they made a host of head-turning detours. Jack White comes across lik …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
The White Stripes emerged from Detroit's garage-rock underground with a minimalist look, lineup, and approach that made a mighty impact in the '00s. Jack and Meg White - a divorced couple posing as bro …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
Assembled from the massed ranks of Funkadelic, under the P-Funk banner and the leadership of George Clinton, Parliament were the freaky astral funk gods of the '70s. Big-sexy horns, a kinky bass, decep …
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Genres & History
4/26/2011
If rock 'n' roll weren't subversive enough, the fact that it was being made primarily by black artists was a virtual powder keg. If Top 40 radio, let alone television, was going to embrace rock artists …
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Genres & History
4/26/2011
Todo el mundo conoce "Guantanamera", pero la mayorfa tiene s=lo un vago recuerdo de temas como "Marfa Bonita", "En Mi Viejo San Juan" o "Las Ma±anitas" de alguna estadfa en un hotel mexicano. Dos de la …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
We'll admit it: Back in 2001, when we first heard about Blur front man Damon Albarn's studio-laboratory experiment with Dan "The Automator" Nakamura - a virtual band fleshed out by the animation of …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
What we've got here is a stack of slammin' hip-hop tracks topped off with the proven and poignant flow of Masta Ace. "Evol" shuffles and shakes right alongside a showboating O'Jays sample; "Sick of It …
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