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4/5/2011
The pop sheen beaming off of such OMD tracks as "Red Frame/White Light" and the Velvet Underground cover "Sunday Morning" is so blinding it sometimes obscures the left-field brilliance of Dazzle Shi …
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4/5/2011
When OMD's best-known lineup re-formed to play a string of shows in 2007, the band began each evening with a rearranged run-through of their classic Architecture & Morality album. To this day, i …
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4/5/2011
Apparently, no one ever told Joe Jackson that "everything" wasn't one of the options on the musical menu. Besides leaping styles in a single bound, he maintained the angry social commentary of his punk …
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4/5/2011
Even Joe Jackson can't be all things to all people, but that's never stopped him from trying. It's the former new wave enfant terrible's ravenous passion for music that's allowed him to move sea …
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4/5/2011
Grover Washington, Jr. wasn't just eclectic - musically, he could be downright schizophrenic . . . in a good way. Folks who know him only by his hits might have a hard time believing that Mr. "W …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
When the titans of the sax are tallied up, you'd better believe Grover Washington, Jr.'s name takes a place of prominence. Not only is he one of the most commercially successful men ever to take a saxo …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
Brad Mehldau's restless musical mind is constantly seeking out new routes, and what better way to keep those creative juices flowing than by bouncing your ideas off some of the most uncompromising arti …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
From Thelonious Monk to Bill Evans, the great jazz-piano pioneers have always abhorred predictability, and Brad Mehldau is no exception. With a smoldering intensity and a poet's touch, he paints a vivi …
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Artist Essentials
4/5/2011
A shared obsession with theatrical gore; macabre alter egos; a mastery of sonic horror: these things affirm the creative bloodline that connects Rob Zombie to original shock-rocker Alice Cooper, and it …
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