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Genres & History
2/15/2011
Forget about the '60s for a minute. Another British Invasion stormed our shores decades later - the Bristol-bred trip-hop movement, a stereoscopic explosion of heady hip-hop, rainbow-chasing psychedeli …
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Genres & History
2/15/2011
The '70s was a golden age of novelty songs, and plenty of gloriously goofy, gut-busting tunes took over the airwaves. When health-food habits became all the rage, Larry Groce unveiled the "Junk Food Ju …
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Genres & History
2/15/2011
If there's one phrase that applies to all of our one-hit wonders, it's "only in the '70s . . ." Only in the '70s could folk/blues pioneer Leadbelly's field holler "Black Betty" become a heavy-riffing h …
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Genres & History
2/15/2011
Welcome to our '80s Pop Deep Cuts, where Better Midler's soaring ode to everlasting friendship, "Wind Beneath My Wings," shares a bill with the J. Geils Band and its raucous remembrance of a good girl …
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Genres & History
2/15/2011
Quick! What do you think of when you hear the harmonic strains of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" coursing through the air - that mean mullet you once sported or "isn't this that song from Glee"? Hey, …
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Artist Essentials
2/15/2011
One look at the lineup of Cake's on-again, off-again Unlimited Sunshine Tour - Modest Mouse, Cheap Trick, and De La Soul have all played it - is all you need to understand just how deep their roots run …
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Artist Essentials
2/15/2011
Talk about literally going the distance. Once wrongly written off as a one-hit wonder, Cake have weathered countless trends and the rise and fall of alt-rock's Top 40 tenure to become a rare example of …
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My Groove
2/15/2011
"(Everything I Do) I Do It For You," cries Bryan Adams on his power ballad classic, and that's how we feel when it comes to mining the vaults for the best in searing, soaring songs of all-out, scorched …
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My Groove
2/15/2011
It's in the heart-baring, lung-blaring power of the vocals, the pounding percussion that matches the beat of your own overtaxed organ, the way it feels like that longhaired guitar wizard is working you …
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