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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
Part of Spoon's appeal is that no matter how big they become, they'll always be underground upstarts at heart. They love tweaking expectations by tossing leftfield touches into their tunes. Early in th …
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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
Spoon works post-punk's sharp edges into a modern mesh of pop hooks and off-kilter indie rock. And while they've honed their attack with peerless precision over the last decade and a half, they never s …
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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
Having seen the Twin Towers fall firsthand, Gerard Way was changed forever by the smoke and the screaming of that fateful day - filled with words the former animator had to project amongst racet …
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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
Wielding a warped sense of humor and more instruments than most five-person bands, Damon Gough of Badly Drawn Boy has built his "keep 'em guessing" career on indie pop so brilliant and rich it could be …
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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
Leaping off magazine spreads and TV screens with golden hair and chocolate brown eyes, Jessica Simpson is a born pop star with the hooks to match her looks. Top 40 junkies, get your fix: the slingshot …
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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
Kings of Leon may have stormed up from the South as the next generation of back-to-basics rock 'n' roll heroes on the appropriately titled Youth and Young Manhood, but like so many great young b …
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Artist Essentials
12/21/2010
You couldn't make up a better rock 'n' roll back-story. Three brothers learn to play while traveling the South with their Pentecostal preacher dad. They shake off the shackles of their repressed youth …
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Genres & History
12/21/2010
Shoulder your way to the front of the stage and lose yourself in the glorious abandon of "Jump, Jive and Harmonize," courtesy of Thee Midniters, an East L.A. garage combo that famously blended pulveriz …
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Genres & History
12/21/2010
Long before the punk class of '77 deflated bloated rock, long before D.I.Y. became a badge of honor on a uniform already crowded with pinned-on labels, there was garage rock. Simply put, bands learned …
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