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5/6/2009
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5/6/2009
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Genres & History
5/5/2009
Just like the Yardbirds gave us Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, Bikini Kill proved to be a fertile spawning ground for double-x-chromosome spinoffs. The group's cofounder Kathl …
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Genres & History
5/5/2009
Sad but true: rock 'n' roll has always been something of a boys' club. How wrong is that? Wrong enough that, in the early '90s, a group of women latched onto punk's D.I.Y. ethic, strapped on guitars, a …
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Genres & History
5/5/2009
In the early 20th century, when blues was a rural Southern phenomenon, it was an acoustic development, the genre's groundbreakers making do with unamplified guitars, pianos, and harmonicas to entertain …
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Artist Essentials
5/5/2009
After ditching their British Invasion disguise, the Moody Blues first showed their true progressive colors in 1967, with the astounding rock-classical masterwork Days of Future Passed. In league …
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Artist Essentials
5/5/2009
Cat Stevens frequently gets lumped in with the '70s singer/songwriter boom, but he actually fits neatly with such wistful English contemporaries as Nick Drake and Donovan. Songs like "Wild World," and …
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Artist Essentials
5/5/2009
Here, among the rousing mainstays of Williams' high profile partnerships with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, we've added a few pieces that have nothing to do with swashbuckling adventure and reflec …
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Artist Essentials
5/5/2009
John Williams started out, after college (UCLA, Juilliard) and a stint in the Air Force, as a jazz pianist, then followed his father - who had worked as a musician for movie studios - onto the Hollywoo …
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