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3/11/2011
The Beastie Boys came up smack-dab in the middle of an explosion - '70s New York City, a 14-mile stretch encompassing the births of hip-hop, disco, and punk, not to mention an art scene that was the ve …
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3/11/2011
The Beastie Boys might have one of the most remarkable - and artistically profound - cases of multiple personality disorder on record. To compare another artist to them, you'd first have to ask to whic …
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3/10/2011
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3/8/2011
Estelle Swaray didn't exactly sprout wings with her 2004 debut album - The 18th Day, which barely cracked the Top 40 in her U.K. homeland - but what a difference a few years can make. The versatile hip …
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3/8/2011
Since the '80s, CTline Dion has released songs in both French and English, working with top-flight composers and producers from around the world to achieve her vibrant, bilingual sound. Here, we've inc …
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3/8/2011
There's something undeniably larger-than-life about CTline Dion. The commanding power of her voice and the scale of her international popularity set her head and shoulders above the closest competition …
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3/8/2011
Lady Day's languid phrasing and quavering delivery gave her the expressiveness of a blues artist, conveying deep sadness and personal experience in an unparalleled fashion. Hard living took a devastati …
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3/8/2011
Though she died at the age of 44, Billie Holiday left us with an impressively deep and varied catalog. Her true gift was her ability to seize (or caress) any lyric and tell an intimate and moving story …
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My Groove
3/8/2011
Eminem has a sensitive side? Not exactly, but the windswept strings, creeping keys, and swiftly slain rhymes of "Crazy In Love" - directed at his ex-wife/regularly scheduled muse, Kim - are as close as …
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