6/17/2015
What a voice, what moves . . . what an entertainer! The incredible, enchanting Sarah Brightman has found her pop niche somewhere between the Cher/Madonna school of bewitching extravagance, the r …
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6/17/2015
Guitar wizard Steve Hackett built up a heavyweight reputation with Genesis at the height of its powers before striking out in his own right. We begin with "Ace of Wands" from his first solo album, 1975 …
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6/17/2015
If we had to nominate a life-guard for the new pool of soul-revival talent — into which Amy Winehouse, Adele and Cee Lo Green have all spectacularly plunged — then one name dominates all contenders: Ra …
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6/17/2015
She's got the brains, the strength of character, the laughs, and the tunes — Glenelg's Beccy Cole is the complete country singer-songwriter package, proud owner of an armful of Golden Guitar awards, an …
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6/17/2015
Famously touted as the "best unsigned band in Britain" by Steve Lamacq back in 2001, Yorkshire's the Music had plenty to live up to right from the outset . . . and over the course of three albums to da …
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6/17/2015
Eccentric Norwegian electronic duo Royksopp — which translates literally as "smoke mushroom" — has evolved smartly over the course of their first two albums. With their million-selling debut Melody …
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6/17/2015
Andrew Weatherall was quick to secure his tenure on that cloud reserved for producer-DJ-remixer gods: The U.K. techno wunderkind earned his spurs alongside Paul Oakenfold on the club remix of the Happy …
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6/17/2015
Lisa Stansfield, Rochdale's most influential global export since the heyday of the Industrial Revolution, lit up the dance charts by fronting Coldcut's house monster "People Hold On", before notching u …
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6/16/2015
Georgia-born New York transplant Matthew Houck, essentially the sole member of Phosphorescent, toured at the dawn of the ’00s under the name Fillup Shack (attracting great press here in the UK), but ch …
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