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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Enigmatic frontman Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV (a.k.a. Black Francis, a.k.a. Frank Black) provided the surrealist, left-field sensibility that gave the Pixies its dark, puckish charm. Whether …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Although the Pixies were never as influential in the States as they were in Britain and Europe, their triumphant 2004 reunion proved an important coming-of-age for their Gen X fan base, who fervently b …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
In the history of electric blues, Willie Dixon stands as The Man - likely more responsible for the sound of Chicago blues than anyone (and by anyone, we mean folks with names like King, Waters, …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
The anthemic "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" stands as one of Gordon Lightfoot's most enduring songs, breathtaking in its scope. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is the most popular historically based …
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Genres & History
4/27/2010
One of the '60s' defining excesses - and there were many - comes in the form of the bands' names: Chocolate Watchband. Strawberry Alarm Clock. Ultimate Spinach. But make no mistake: many of thes …
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Genres & History
4/27/2010
It's the decade that brought us the war in Vietnam and the Summer of Love, the first man on the Moon, the first working laser, and the first Touch-Tone telephone. It's that miraculous era when Dr. S …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Lick It Up (1983) is a landmark KISS LP: the first album packaged without their trademark make-up. Fact is, the lack of greasepaint worked, breathing new life into the band and refueling their a …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
KISS was never just a band; the group is nothing short of an experience, a movement, a lifestyle - essentially everything that's good, bad, 'n' lusty about adolescence. You can bang your head to …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
revealing the band's way with tender melodies via reflective songs like "If Today Was Your Last Today" from 2008's Dark Horse, produced by famed AC/DC and Def Leppard collaborator Mutt Lange, wh …
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