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Other Mix
4/15/2009
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Playlist
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Other Mix
4/15/2009
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Playlist
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Artist Essentials
4/14/2009
Balancing romance and realism, celebrating love and friendship in uncertain times, Carole King connected with a vast audience in the '70s. Her music hasn't lost its resonance with the passing decades - …
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Artist Essentials
4/14/2009
To keep the Cult's various guises in perspective, we've drawn a line here between Ian Astbury's pre-Billy Duffy recordings with Southern Death Cult - check out the tribal whooping on "False Faces" - th …
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Artist Essentials
4/14/2009
With one foot planted firmly in British art-rock and the other in full-throttle American metal, the Cult helped fuse the worlds of post-punk and hard rock just as they were crossing over to a U.S. audi …
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Artist Essentials
4/14/2009
In the early '70s, Waylon did something that shook country to its core: He negotiated a deal giving himself complete creative control of his music. Extending a stiff middle finger to Nashville's establ …
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Artist Essentials
4/14/2009
Distinguished by a superior grade of gravel in the voice of frontman Kelly Jones, South Wales trio Stereophonics adds grit to the rock ballad and heart to the classic tear-up. For a taste of their raw, …
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Genres & History
4/14/2009
Before he became a gangsta rap icon, 2Pac was dancing in Digital Underground - Oakland's P-Funk-fixated hip-hop troupe. That bizarre dichotomy illustrates the Bay Area's borderless stream of rap both a …
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Playlist
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Artist Essentials
4/14/2009
No need to discuss the first half-dozen cuts on our Violent Femmes playlist - they're among the most famous of the past quarter-century of rock. You know 'em, you love 'em. But if you're not on a first …
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