4/26/2011
Around its core of skull-thumpin' rock, and a loose cadre of guest musicians (notably Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters and Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top), Queens of the Stone Age has evolved into a beast of su …
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4/26/2011
With second album R, QOTSA chose not to overindulge their propensity for heaviness by weaving a trippy and side-winding kind of mellowness into the mix - check out "Auto Pilot" - and in so doing, signa …
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4/26/2011
Like fellow British neo-soul talent Lewis Taylor, Jamie Lidell's sublime vocal skills have been delivered slowly but surely on the grapevine, and he also brings to the table the extra dimension of his …
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4/26/2011
True to his Technicolorr work with Beck, the Flaming Lips, and Lily Allen, Greg Kurstin's string of Bird and the Bee records reach well beyond the jazz and tropicalia realm. Take "F-cking Boyfriend," f …
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4/26/2011
A theater major who got her start quoting Shakespeare, Inara George quickly shed the bluesy, country-fried shadow of her father, Little Feat frontman Lowell George. Which might explain why she's able t …
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4/26/2011
You don't get to be a platinum-selling, award-winning country star like Rodney Atkins, scoring four #1 singles in a row, unless your songs speak to people. And Rodney's got more ways to g …
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4/26/2011
Robin Thicke was born into a celebrity family (Dad is TV star and theme-songwriter Alan, Mom vocalist Gloria Loring). But he's built his own fame his own way, penning tunes for the likes of Christina A …
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4/26/2011
If hushed and fluttery ballads ("2 Luv Birds") and smoldering, lay-it-on-the-line proposals ("Mrs. Sexy") make R&B superstar Robin Thicke a sure-thing lady-killer, the man's way with come-hither musica …
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4/26/2011
You may not know the name Jonathan Barry Prendergast - after all, it's not the name he went by for the last half-century or so - but we can guarantee you know John Barry's music. After all, it's just a …
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