3/30/2010
Jackson Browne has been a potent songwriter since the Velvet Underground's Nico recognized his talent as a teenager in Greenwich Village. Four decades later, he's an ageless singer/songwriter who trans …
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3/23/2010
Alison Goldfrapp began her play for our affections by taking a sultry-but-brainy approach to pop. Debut album Felt Mountain blended allusions to coolly overblown European cinema (the spaghetti W …
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3/23/2010
Prepare to be stunned by Alison Goldfrapp's musical range - she's just as persuasive delivering moody, unnerving tunes as she is unleashing futuristic disco stompers, and 2003's Black Cherry sho …
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3/23/2010
Laurie Berkner's platinum-selling, award-magnet music may be written for kids, but even adults have a hard time resisting the rousing chorus ("Hey Victor, hey Freddie, let's eat some spaghetti!") of he …
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3/23/2010
Whether they're New World Men or today's Tom Sawyers, Rush have been making majestic, larger-than-life music as far back as the start of the '70s. Since then, they've weaved everything from proto-metal …
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3/23/2010
Rush always tried to move with the times - the lion-maned '70s rockers embraced electronics and mullet mania in the '80s and went stripped-down modern in later years, never losing their old-school gust …
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3/23/2010
Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers entertained and challenged their audiences when they began recording in 1962. Their music prodded the conscience as well as soothed the soul. From the …
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3/23/2010
Crosby, Stills & Nash (with the later addition of Young) were always a volatile mixture of creative talents and musical visions. Their music could be dazzlingly complex ("Suite - Judy Blue Eyes"), fero …
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3/23/2010
Truth was the Doors' torch, and they clutched it firmly, even as the ground beneath them began to rock and crumble. For all the stories of excess and misadventures, the Doors were, at heart, seekers, p …
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