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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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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Cover bands and Canadians take note: you, too, could enjoy a future topping charts and monopolizing the memory banks of rock radio-listeners with your singles. Just look at Nickelback, who went from ro …
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Genres & History
4/27/2010
The creative explosion sparked by the early-'70s outlaws still resonates with artists today. But it also has a backwards effect, shedding light on dudes like Townes Van Zandt, who had been playing by t …
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Genres & History
4/27/2010
In the early '70s, the creative freedom that drove rock 'n' roll rode into Nashville. Waylon Jennings fired the first shot, taking control of his music from country music's mafia of producers, writers, …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
After storming the R&B world in the mid-'90s with the double-edged sword of genius and controversy, R. Kelly set about consolidating his reputation as a superstar by showing his colors as a writer and …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Instantaneously recognizable to nearly anyone who's tuned in to FM frequencies, Foghat cuts such as "Fool for the City," "Slow Ride," and a raucously steamy cover of the blues standard "I Just Want to …
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Artist Essentials
4/27/2010
Not everyone escapes the curse of the Best New Artist GRAMMYr, but Bruce Hornsby has done it handily. The upbeat melody and arrangement for the title track from The Way It Is masks a social crit …
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