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5/26/2009
The late, great Del Shannon broke out just as music's most revolutionary decade, the '60s, was getting underway. He and his music hinted at the transformative times to come, with thrill-ride shifts fro …
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5/26/2009
Way more than just a post-punk portrait of gloom from the tomb, goth rock wrapped its shadowy cloak around mysticism, metal, menace, melodrama . . . and makeup. Lots of makeup. Formed out of got …
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5/26/2009
Sure, college gave us frat rock, but over on the other side of campus, a more graceful, refined, high-gloss sound played to sophisticated ears. The Church's dream-pop masterpiece, "Under the Mil …
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5/26/2009
New York and London got all the press - and most of the big record deals - but make no mistake: SoCal's scene rocked the punk landscape like an 8.5-magnitude quake. Maybe the scene's great unsung heroe …
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5/26/2009
Even more than Rolling Stone or Spin, Britain's NME and Melody Maker topped every modern music junkie's must-read list. As the second British Invasion - originally started b …
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5/26/2009
A machine shop fusion of noise, metal, and straight-up aggro - by the mid-'80s, an assembly line of bands got slapped with the tag "industrial," but, really, they were just the ultimate expression of g …
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5/26/2009
College rock might have been located at the left end of the dial, but stylistically it was all over the map. Being that there just wasn't room enough to contain all its golden-era goodness in a single …
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