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10/20/2009
Seventeen years isn't really all that long: just about enough time to get from kindergarten to high school . . . or change the face of music forever. And between 1959 and 1976, at the corner of McLemor …
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10/20/2009
Over the course of two dozen albums, Costello's wizardry at sonic shape-shifting guarantees that while these "similar" tunes may all sound like him, they won't sound much like one another. In "D …
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10/20/2009
There are crews, and then there's the Long Beach/Compton clique Snoop's rolled with since his time on Death Row, who've flipped days of backyard barbecuing and nights of club crawling into years …
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10/20/2009
Keeping his paws in the game like a natural-born Doggfather, Snoop's been passing the dutch to rap's A-list since his middle name was Doggy. Take the Game: raised in Compton on a steady diet of hardcor …
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10/20/2009
If you really wanna know where the D-O-double-G came from, and how he's stayed on top for nearly two decades, you gotta drop the needle on these tracks from his vintage vinyl stash, handpicked b …
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10/20/2009
Like cross-town kin Sun Records before it, Stax defined its time and place, and even those who never set foot in 926 East McLemore Avenue kept their ears keenly tuned to the sounds pounding agai …
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10/20/2009
Stax began taste-testing the recipe for its Southern soul stew long before its first record ever hit store shelves. Because Jim Stewart - whose last name gave "STAX" its "ST" - started out as a …
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10/20/2009
Otis Redding, Steve Cropper, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes; the Stax roster wasn't merely loaded with killer artists; it was also packed with world-class songwriters. They wrote, and the whole world …
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10/20/2009
Almost everyone knows that Jimmy Page spent virtually the entire '60s in the studio - check out our accompanying Session Men playlist for more on that - but his compadres also found creat …
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