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Artist Essentials

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5/12/2009
Welcome to Donna's Deep Cuts, and have we got some hot Summer goodness for you. Here's where we offer up the best of overlooked album tracks - the '40s-style time-traveler "I Remember Yesterday," an ed …
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5/12/2009
With her biker-gal black-leather look, whiskey-and-cigarettes voice, and primal rock riffs, Joan Jett dragged rock's primordial goodness back to center stage when others were tarting things up with syr …
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5/12/2009
Just as tough girls the Runaways inspired generations of rockin' ladies, Joan Jett's engine was revved by the roughhouse rock 'n' roll heavyweights who came before her. Eddie Cochran's rockabilly origi …
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5/12/2009
At a time when '60s-inspired sounds were mainly found in the West Coast's Paisley Underground, the Hoodoo Gurus popped up from Down Under to prove there was more to Aussie rock than Men At Work. While  …
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5/12/2009
One look at those paisley shirts and long, flowing manes and you know the Hoodoo Gurus can lay down some lava-lamp-lovin', psychedelic action. The guys really let their freak flag fly on "(Let's All) T …
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5/12/2009
The multi-platinum hit machine of Montgomery Gentry roared into view at the end of the '90s, making the boot-scootin' sounds of Brooks & Dunn seem like just a polite prologue. Their rough-edged style i …
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5/12/2009
Kentucky boys Montgomery Gentry grew up on the sounds of Southern rock, outlaw country, and heavy metal in equal measure, and you can hear it all in their country-rocking hits. Troy and Eddie pay direc …
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5/12/2009
To call the past three years a golden age of production gigs for will.i.am would be a gross understatement. While he got his start crafting whip-smart jams for the Black Eyed Peas in the mid '90s, outs …
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5/12/2009
As great as some of his guest productions are (the stripped-back banger "Keep Bouncin'," a handful of career-rebooting selections for Macy Gray), will.i.am is a lot like Kanye West in that he's saved s …