4/21/2009
Fact is, we don't know of many musicians who embody the artist's journey better than Marvin Gaye, who, over the course of a Technicolor career, morphed from refined Motown soul singer to politically/se …
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4/14/2009
It's rare when a song can capture the essence of an era and still sound perfectly fresh even decades later. Rick Springfield's "Don't Talk to Strangers" and "I've Done Everything for You" are '80s sign …
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4/14/2009
Compare the reckless young carouser of Rick Springfield's power-pop ode "The American Girl" to the weathered voice of experience telling the mournful tale of "Angels of the Disappeared," and you might …
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4/14/2009
Born in northern England, raised in South Africa during the apartheid-era, and nicknamed Le Zulu Blanc - The White Zulu - in France, where he commands a massive and loyal following, Johnny Clegg laid h …
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4/14/2009
You can hear the fruits of Clegg's apprenticeship with street musician Mntonganazo Mzila on his first two albums: Universal Men (1979), an exploration of the experience of South Africa's migrant …
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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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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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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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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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