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Genres & History
10/5/2010
Don't worry. Your ears aren't playing tricks on you. The skittish beats and dreary drone tones of "Lie" really are fronted by Limp Bizkit guitarist/face-paint expert Wes Borland. It's not the only side …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
The last record-breaking book in the Harry Potter series wasn't 2007's only headline-hogging event. The year was also full of ravenous rock records - riff-slinging singles that took the title of Fall O …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
While Gavin Rossdale and Scott Weiland spent 2008 on more of a solo tip (the teeth-gnashing guitars and merry melodies of "Missing Cleveland," the piano-led sensitive sides of "Love Remains the Same"), …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
November 23, 2008. That'd be the day Guns N' Roses broke 15 years of silence with the shape-shifting insanity of Chinese Democracy. It wasn't the only reason to toast the state of rock music, either. W …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
While Rancid, Incubus, and Slipknot are certainly no strangers to the modern-rock scene, their 2009 singles pushed their guitar-guided sounds further than they'd been pushed before. That goes for the s …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
Here's how unpredictable 2009 was on the modern-rock front: one of the year's biggest crossover cuts was by four Southern gentlemen with a knack for writing Springsteen-sized hooks (Kings of Leon's soa …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
There was plenty of cross-pollination within the ranks of the New Romantics, which is why you'll find common threads across a fairly disparate array of styles. Gary Numan ("Are 'Friends' Electric?") af …
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Genres & History
10/5/2010
If you had the soul (and flouncy shirts) of a consumptive 19th-century poet and the musical circuitry of a 25th-century android - and you were turning heads on the streets of London's Soho during the e …
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Artist Essentials
10/5/2010
While it's easy to assume that EPMD's in their comfort zone on such career standouts as "Knick Knack Patty Wack" (featuring the same Joe Cocker sample as 2Pac's "California Love") and "Never Defeat Em" …
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