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2/24/2011
Billy Joel might've exited the recording booth nearly 20 years ago, but his studio spirit has been picked up - and laid down - by a new generation of artists. Ben Folds unleashes a finger-tangling disp …
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Other Mix
2/24/2011
For four decades now, Billy Joel's honed his craft on stages as small as your bedroom and as large as your ZIP Code - and, man, does it ever show. In fact, it was a live performance of one of his all-t …
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Artist Essentials
2/22/2011
Blessed with a 1,000-thread-count voice and the talent to drape it across ballads and finger-poppers with equal ease, Luther Vandross became the love man for a new generation. Pushing aside the boastin …
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Artist Essentials
2/22/2011
They were "America's Beatles." A quintet of former folkies who'd plugged in and let their hair grow, the Byrds quickly claimed top spots on the pop charts with the singles "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Tur …
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Artist Essentials
2/22/2011
Busta Rhymes was just 17 when he formed the highly influential Long Island group Leaders of the New School. With a sound that's much more old school (see the trunk-rattling boom-bap beats of "Wh …
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Artist Essentials
2/22/2011
Hip-hop certainly has its fair share of rhyme slayers and sample-stacking beat conductors. That said, not everyone's a character of Busta Rhymes' caliber. Listen to his work from the past 15-plu …
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Genres & History
2/22/2011
With its Day-Glo posters and brain-searing light shows, the'60s psychedelic scene was all about the colors, a fact that wasn't lost on its savviest pop practitioners. Scotsman-turned-spaceman Do …
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Genres & History
2/22/2011
Light shows, fuzz bombs, turn-ons, and love-ins; everything everybody says about the '60s is true - it was one big kandy-kolored, granny-glassed psychedelic party, a pedal-to-the-floorboard VW microbus …
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Genres & History
2/22/2011
Welcome to our British Invasion Deep Cuts, where you'll experience the full spectrum of Union Jack jams from every corner of the mid-'60s scene. You'll find hints of the psychedelic revolution j …
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