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Genres & History
3/1/2011
From Jimi Hendrix to Jimmy Page, guitars get all the credit. Yet if there's one other sound that cuts across most countries and continents - leaving a trail of blown speakers in its wake - it's …
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Artist Essentials
3/1/2011
The bittersweet ache inspired by a favorite song, the unbreakable bond between legendary lovers, the yearning for a friend who should be so much more - these are the touchstones of country-pop supersta …
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3/1/2011
Country music couldn't have known it was waiting for Billy Currington until he came along, but boy, once he did . . . Currington scored a hit his first time at bat with debut single "Walk a Little Stra …
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Artist Essentials
3/1/2011
Stomping on desserts for fun? Trousers made of postage? Slugging dairy products? Welcome to the wonderful, whimsical world of Gustafer Yellowgold, the loveable alien who came to Minnesota from the Sun …
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Artist Essentials
3/1/2011
Convention has little bearing on the unique Sigur R=s picture, but 2005's Takk. comes the closest to accepted rock album structures (check out wraith-like ballad "Andvari"). Elsewhere, "I Gµr" f …
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Artist Essentials
3/1/2011
Named after singer J=nsi Birgisson's younger sister, born on the same day the band was formed, Sigur R=s has established itself as one of the strangest and most enchanting bands on the planet. From the …
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Artist Essentials
3/1/2011
Pat Benatar may have made her biggest commercial impact in the spandex-splattered '80s, but she was always in it for the long haul, and she never stopped exploring and evolving. In the '90s, she tapped …
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Artist Essentials
3/1/2011
Pat Benatar is a study in contrasts - a petite songbird with powerhouse pipes that could rip the roof off an arena; a classically trained singer who became a raging rock 'n' roll queen; a sensuous, sta …
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Genres & History
3/1/2011
As comforting as it was seeing familiar names like Pearl Jam (the frantic melodies and feel-good grooves of "The Fixer") and Radiohead (the post-apocalyptic shake, rattle, and roll of "Bodysnatchers") …
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