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Other Mix
2/9/2011
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Playlist
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Other Mix
2/9/2011
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
F. Scott Fitzgerald's contention to the contrary, Paul Simon has engineered a great American second act. As the songwriting half of Simon & Garfunkel, the native New Yorker penned some of the defining …
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My Groove
2/8/2011
As heard in everything from a couple of N.W.A. classics ("Gangsta Gangsta," "Dopeman") to the Bounce FM station in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the "Funky Worm" features one of the greatest synth sol …
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My Groove
2/8/2011
Talk about giving the drummer some. As first heard in the floor-filling, beat-juggling sets of such hip-hop pioneers as Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Kool Herc, the following carefully curated playlist taps …
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Genres & History
2/8/2011
With Jamaica's high illiteracy rate, the country's music has long been considered the newspaper for the oppressed. In the early '70s, as a restless generation embraced Rastafarianism, message songs pre …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
A Tribe Called Quest didn't necessarily invent the fusion of jazz, arty hip-hop, and rhymes-as-poetry, but they certainly personified it in the '90s. "Can I Kick It?" and "Award Tour" are among …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Only someone so supremely sure of his gift could write one of the all-time freakiest odes to the decadent pleasures of a naughty girl ("Darling Nikki"), then turn around and compose a beautifully simpl …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Even in his early days, Prince proved he was no ordinary pop star-in-the-making - for starters, not too many up-and-comers pose for album covers in skimpy black skivvies and a bandana. But while tip-of …
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