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1/5/2010
The singing of Jodeci and its splinter duo, K-Ci & JoJo, is smoother than an economy-sized jar of peanut butter, but both groups are too saucy and sexualized to be classified as simply a Boyz II Men kn …
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1/5/2010
To say that traditionalists were shocked at Miles' new direction would be putting it mildly, but two decades had passed between the first Birth of the Cool sessions and the first Bitches Brew …
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1/5/2010
Virtually anything played on the radio, from the rawest blues to the slickest pop - even the grandest opera - got fed into the hopper of Elvis' music-making machine for processing, coming out as rock. …
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1/5/2010
From rockabilly's creation to nationwide sensation, Elvis' world teemed with artists tapping parallel musical wellsprings, dreaming of a Presley-sized payoff. As the snare snaps a couple of rapid-fire …
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1/5/2010
Elvis wasn't the first country cousin to blend hillbilly moonshine with a double-shot of blues power, but his white lightning concoction exploded. Dangerous as a switchblade in the hands …
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1/5/2010
Let's face it, nobody sounded like Jimi, but in the late '60s everybody wanted to. Whoever called Cream's Eric Clapton "Slowhand" obviously never heard the frantic blizzard of fuzzed-out …
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1/5/2010
Nobody can ever out-Jimi Jimi, so those who dare to take on one of his cuts better make their cover an experience. At age 80 - yes, you read that right - John Lee Hooker strips "Red House" of it …
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Artist Essentials
1/4/2010
When Nine Inch Nails retired from the road in 2009, Trent Reznor didn't hang up his drool-worthy collection of keyboards and electric guitars. He got right back to work, draping his wife's melancholic …
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Artist Essentials
1/4/2010
If Trent Reznor had a bumper sticker customized for his car, it'd read something like "Making Death and Decay Sound Downright Pleasant Since 1988." After all, his soul-scrapping Nine Inch Nails collect …
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