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9/14/2010
The cover of M83's breakthrough album - four snow angels frozen in time - says it all. Whether you start with the torrential synth lines and dizzying dreamscapes of Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghos …
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9/14/2010
The story's too good to be true, but guess what? Ray LaMontagne really was working in a shoe factory when he heard Stephen Stills' "Treetop Flyer" single and decided that playing folk music wouldn't be …
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9/14/2010
Ray LaMontagne's always been the quiet type, especially at his incredibly intimate shows - sets that don't bother with small talk. They cut straight to the bone instead, whether we're talking about the …
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9/14/2010
Sure, Robert Plant was the original bare-chested, fire-breathing rock 'n' roll rock god at the helm of Led Zeppelin, but he's come a long way since his arena-rocking days. Decades of following his own  …
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9/14/2010
You can take the singer out of Zeppelin, but you can never really take Zeppelin out of the singer. No matter how he branched out in his solo career, Robert Plant could still wield that hard-rock …
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9/14/2010
When Norman Cook became Fatboy Slim, he helped spearhead the electronica revolution that stormed out of England, battering down the doors of musical convention all over the world and proving you didn't …
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9/14/2010
With a long string of hit singles to his credit, Fatboy Slim is an elite electronica auteur, but when he puts his bag of remix tricks to work on other artists' tunes, he always makes his own mark. He m …
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9/14/2010
Dos de las canciones mßs conocidas de Tito Puente, "Oye Como Va" y "Pa' los Rumberos", se convirtieron en Txitos gigantescos en los a±os '70 de la mano de Santana. Las versiones originales tienen mTrit …
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9/14/2010
Though they're enormously influential and endlessly imitated, the Band were a collection of unique, quirky talents who came together for a sound that no one but those five individuals could reproduce.  …