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4/13/2010
Time for a quick quiz: The Rolling Stones are to classic rock what Built To Spill is to what? And the answer is . . . indie rock! Whether or not you filled in the blank correctly, everyone in the audie …
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4/13/2010
The towering success of Alicia Keys' striking, six-times-platinum Songs In A Minor makes it hard to remember her true debut: the tinkling piano keys and honeyed melodies of "Little Drummer Girl, …
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4/13/2010
Oh, how Alicia Keys has grown: the commercial and critical success of her career since her smash 2001 debut, Songs In A Minor (which sold more than 50,000 copies the day it was released), …
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4/13/2010
Believe it or not, Tevin Campbell was barely 11 when he was first touted as Quincy Jones' protTgT, a claim backed up by the buttery, Michael Jackson-like melodies (circa the Jackson 5) of the #1 R&B si …
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4/13/2010
The Wu-Tang Clan wasn't the only larger-than-life group churning out posse cuts in the late '90s. With Big Punisher and his mentor, Fat Joe, at its helm, the Terror Squad busted out of the Bronx with a …
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4/13/2010
In the scheme of the hardcore hip-hop scene, Fat Joe came before Big Punisher, helping the latter score a deal with Loud Records somewhere along the way. That said, Big Punisher was the first platinum- …
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4/13/2010
While their closets are overflowing with faded arena rock shirts - from guitar heroes like AC/DC and Def Leppard - the All-American Rejects are basically a chart-clobbering pop band with chiseled cheek …
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4/13/2010
One of the easiest ways to understand AFI's roots is to plow through their EPs, especially their cover-song choices on All Hallow's and A Fire Inside: the Misfits ("Halloween") and the Cu …
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4/13/2010
Career suicide. That's what could have happened when AFI's founding members decided to drop out of college and pursue punk rock full-time. Instead, they spent most of the '90s building a cult fo …
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