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My Groove
10/5/2010
In the glory days of Rome, an arena crowd roared as the Emperor chose life or death for his gladiators. Today, the heroes of the playing field are spurred on by rock anthems, sung and stomped out by pa …
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My Groove
10/5/2010
From Vegas to the Catskills, after the WWII and before the Beatles, cool cats and cooler kittens pushed the art of the vocal front-and-center, wrapping their substantial pipes around the greatest tunes …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
While there's no denying the hardcore hip-hop legacy of N.W.A. (even the lesser-known piano lines and restless soul loops of "I Ain't Tha 1" sound stupid-fresh decades later), gangsta rap's roots can b …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
The next time someone says they were "down back in the day," be sure to hit random on our Hip-Hop's Golden Age Essentials set and take them on a tour that starts with Run-DMC's Raising …
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Artist Essentials
10/5/2010
Big and brawny, but never overwhelming, capable of great agility and touching gentleness - that's the sound of Dexter Gordon's remarkable tenor saxophone. Unhurried at any speed and always quick with a …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
While Chuck D, Flavor Flav, and the rest of the Public Enemy crew sounded the alarm with siren wails and frenzied funk loops in the `80s ("Bring the Noise," "Public Enemy No.1"), the Reagan years also …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
Since hip-hop is pop music now, it's easy to forget the early days, as artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, Whodini, Grandmaster Flash, the Sugarhill Gang, and the Jungle Brothers defined …
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My Groove
10/5/2010
Past the pop fatade of modern-day country music is the everlasting myth of the urban cowboy. You know the type: singing along to the "9 to 5" narratives of Dolly Parton, with a Southern belle type alwa …
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Artist Essentials
10/5/2010
Contemporary gospel is far more inflected with R&B now than in the classic "vocalist-over-big-choir" era: Fred Hammond's duet with American Idol finalist Ruben Studdard reminds us more of D'Ange …
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