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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
Between Big Boi's ghetto-fab getups and Andre 3000's blinding collection of pastels and plaids, OutKast look like the unlikeliest power couple in the history of hip-hop. They sound like it on their bes …
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4/5/2011
Now that it's safe to say, "Shake it like a Polaroid picture" again, we thought we'd re-examine the Dirty South's freakiest, funkiest act this side of Goodie Mob. Speaking of Cee-Lo's pre-Gnarls Barkle …
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4/5/2011
In the mid-'80s, while the Sunset Strip was riding high on a tousle of teased coifs, something else entirely was bubbling up in Los Angeles' darker corners. Fusing metal with punk, funk, and an unmatch …
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My Groove
4/5/2011
"'Round Midnight" is exactly the sort of song you want to hear when the small hand strikes 12 - a subtle wash of subterranean bass and trumpets that tease like an experienced lover. Our other Basics ma …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
When Josh Homme asked PJ Harvey to track some vocals for his ongoing Desert Sessions project, she didn't just hold her own against the Queens of the Stone Age frontman; she owned the track, writhing he …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
If you ask most music critics why PJ Harvey's important, they'll tell you that she's the mascara-smearing, stereotype-stomping queen of alt-rock - a force to be reckoned with, really, and more of a rio …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
More than just a Britpop band with style to spare, Blur has always embraced the wildly experimental sides of its four very different members. On one end of the spectrum, there are deceptively simple tr …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
Now that he's known as the puppet master behind Gorillaz - the world's first platinum-plated cartoon band - it's easy to forget Damon Albarn's other life as the highly influential frontman of Blur. Beg …
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Genres & History
4/5/2011
Lester Young and John Coltrane came from the South, Charlie Parker and Wardell Gray from the Midwest, Art Pepper and Paul Desmond from California, Sonny Rollins from New York. During the '50s, they wer …
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