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Artist Essentials
10/19/2009
A guy with a guitar that's as battered and bruised as his heart - that's how Grizzly Bear began, with frontman Ed Droste capturing his foggy freak-folk tunes on a handheld cassette player. Things are a …
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10/19/2009
As if supporting Radiohead in 2008 wasn't surreal enough, Grizzly Bear had an unexpected guest drop by their Brooklyn waterfront show the following summer: Jay-Z, who told MTV, "They're an incredible b …
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Genres & History
10/13/2009
Created in Paris, France, in the '30s by guitarist Django Reinhardt, the movement known as Gypsy Jazz combines elements of swing and the Musette style of waltz into a hip, fast-fingered cocktail of coo …
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10/13/2009
The golden age of Motown was still in full effect when blues legend John Lee Hooker stepped into the studio in 1966 to cut a slinky jump-boogie cover - complete with note-bending, mind-bending t …
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10/13/2009
Hitsville, U.S.A. didn't just mass produce hit singles; it manufactured hit songs. Besides having a lock on the creative output from writers you know - think: Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Lio …
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10/13/2009
Led Zeppelin's been called the godfathers of heavy metal, and with good reason: they took the blues and cranked 'em up to godhead proportions. But they were always far more than that, summoning …
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10/13/2009
Let's face it: there was only one Led Zeppelin. But a whole lot of your favorite artists scaled rock's same mountaintops. And while we're on the subject of mountains . . . Mountain's "Mississippi Queen …
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10/13/2009
Van Halen, Guns N' Roses, Rage Against the Machine . . . for more than 40 years, there's not a band worth their platinum that hasn't copped a riff, a chorus, a hammer-of-the-gods from the Led Zeppelin …
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10/12/2009
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