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Genres & History
7/7/2009
In 1955, rock 'n' roll had arrived. If there were any remaining doubts, the Pop chart spoke volumes as Bill Haley & The Comets hit the top with "Rock Around the Clock." Come to think of it, '55 was als …
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
After the artistic triumph - and commercial failure - of Forever Changes, Love began to fall victim to drug use, and Lee completely repopulated the lineup, moving it in a more complex, if even < …
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
If ever a rocker built a rep on tap-dancing back and forth across the line that separates creativity and madness, Love frontman Arthur Lee was it. In fact, by the time of his death in 2006, Lee had bee …
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Other Mix
7/7/2009
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
Before hitting it big on her own, Dido sang with Faithless ("No Roots"), a trip-hop outfit helmed by her brother, producer Rollo Armstrong. But if electronica is an element that suffuses much of Dido's …
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
When six-year-old Dido stole a recorder from school, her parents wisely figured that music might be in the future for their precocious young thief. They enrolled her in music school, and by her teens D …
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
Here's your chance to sample Rancid's roots in Operation Ivy ("Unity," "Sound System") before tracing the band's evolution from the skate-punk/hardcore flourishes of 1993's self-titled debut album, via …
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
Politically driven, and notably loyal to indie label Epitaph/Hellcat despite a major-label bidding war ferocious enough to inspire the title of 1995's major success . . . And Out Come the Wolves …
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Artist Essentials
7/7/2009
Not just an exponent, but an architect of neo-soul in the '90s, Maxwell made his name in R&B on the back of an album that initially worried record label executives - it was, they thought, too square in …
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