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Genres & History
12/22/2009
As America recovered from the shock of 9/11, country music was our musical comfort food, doing what it always did best: reassuring us that life, love, and all the things we care about most, still go on …
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Artist Essentials
12/22/2009
Many detractors assumed John Mayer would never replicate the crossover smash status of his GRAMMYr-winning single "Your Body Is a Wonderland." Yet, the slinky-voiced singer/songwriter has surpassed exp …
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Artist Essentials
12/22/2009
To understand the ridiculous range of Cedric Bixler-Zavala - the Mars Volta's mercurial frontman - you might want to blast the following cuts: his elbow-throwing Black Flag cover ("I've Had It"), the c …
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Artist Essentials
12/22/2009
No, really. The mad prog-rock scientists behind the Mars Volta are the same two Texans who screamed and soloed their way across the slash-and-burn soundscapes of At the Drive-In. Those shamanistic punk …
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Genres & History
12/22/2009
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's most beloved composition of all, "The Nutcracker, Op.71: No. 12d Character Dances: TrTpak (Russian Dance)" is a perfect, and familiar, place to begin our Russian musical expe …
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My Groove
12/22/2009
Wanna know how open-minded modern rock was during the '90s? Aside from welcoming the frenzied synth pop of acid freaks ("Pepper," the sudden breakthrough of the Butthole Surfers after more than a decad …
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My Groove
12/22/2009
As the media and self-anointed "slackers" christened Generation X at the start of the '90s, hair-metal and new wave acts all but disappeared in favor of an alternative nation that elected Kurt Cobain t …
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Artist Essentials
12/22/2009
So you're a London boy, born and bred, who's made a name as a groove-driven, alt-music mastermind with early-days experiments like "Another Boy Drowning" and eerie, late-night seductions like "Beyond L …
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Artist Essentials
12/22/2009
The The's Matt Johnson got his view on nighttime London early, growing up over his dad's popular pub and checking out the rockers and bluesmen performing at his uncle's nightclubs. Inspired, young Matt …
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