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Genres & History
2/8/2011
Transition is the name of the game, as the Everly Brothers carry on the teenage travails of the '50s in "Cathy's Clown," Percy Faith tops the charts with the lush strings of his easy-listening staple, …
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Genres & History
2/8/2011
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," say the Rolling Stones, but they sure get airplay. Meanwhile, Bob Dylan's completely unrelated "Like a Rolling Stone" blows minds across the country and, at six-plus mi …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Success stories like Talib Kweli rarely happen in the rap game. An underground icon circa the slamming Black Star singles "Respiration" and "Definition," Kweli went his own way soon afterward, much lik …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
We'll eventually get to the way the Diplomats (a.k.a. Dipset) are defining today's hip-hop with brazen head-snappers like "Dipset Anthem." But before that we've gotta introduce crew leader and all-arou …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Hell hath no fury like an R&B singer scorned. At least in the case of Keyshia Cole, who busted out of the Bay Area as soon as she caught wind of a cheating boyfriend. While Cole collaborated with MC Ha …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Nothing says, "Skimming the waves in a yacht with supermodels" quite like Duran Duran's definitive luxe-rock singles "Rio" and "Hungry Like the Wolf." As songs like these make abundantly clear, the Fab …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Here, we discover exactly why Jars of Clay has picked up such a weighty following both sides of the theological divide, courtesy of two revealing covers: first there's an especially tender treatment of …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
Taking its name from a passage in the second book of Corinithians which speaks of "treasure in jars of clay" - a metaphor for spirituality within the fragile, often imperfect, physical body - this semi …
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Artist Essentials
2/8/2011
As is often the case with dance producers who were DJs first, the Chemical Brothers have saved some of their best (and, at times, more experimental) material for club-friendly singles and EPs. That inc …
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