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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
With second album R, QOTSA chose not to overindulge their propensity for heaviness by weaving a trippy and side-winding kind of mellowness into the mix - check out "Auto Pilot" - and in so doing, signa …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
Around its core of skull-thumpin' rock, and a loose cadre of guest musicians (notably Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top), Queens of the Stone Age has evolved into a beast of su …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
It was with debut album Suburban Light (2000) that the peculiar genius of the Clientele started to reveal itself - with tracks like "Rain" the band created soundscapes that appeared to connect pastoral …
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Artist Essentials
4/26/2011
Formed in suburban England in the late '90s and cited as an influence by Fleet Foxes, the Clientele mines an uplifting, dreamy, and surreal vein of unforced, beautifully crafted pop. You could sum up t …
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Genres & History
4/25/2011
Most DJs reared in the '80s remember the scratch riff of "Rockit" like their first kiss. After all, it was the first time turntables took over a song's chorus. The same kind of elation was elicited by …
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Genres & History
4/25/2011
Weirdly enough, all of our featured bands found their biggest success in the wake of a personnel shift - and not always a happy one. After trimming from a sextet to a five-piece, the Dynamics even ditc …
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Genres & History
4/25/2011
It took 28 compact discs to hold all the singles Stax released between 1959 and 1975 . . . and that's just the A-sides. Add to that the hundreds - maybe thousands - of monster album cuts, …
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Artist Essentials
4/25/2011
Here we take it right back to the beginning, with the two hits that scored in Europe long before the Boys had properly registered in the U.S. - beaty, bouncy debut single "We've Got It Goin' On" and th …
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Artist Essentials
4/25/2011
The Backstreet Boys - together since 1993, when they were set loose on the world as a five-piece by boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman - cruised comfortably into the later reaches of the '00s as a quartet, wi …
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