4/25/2011
It took 28 compact discs to hold all the singles Stax released between 1959 and 1975 . . . and that's just the A-sides. Add to that the hundreds - maybe thousands - of monster album cuts, …
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4/25/2011
Weirdly enough, all of our featured bands found their biggest success in the wake of a personnel shift - and not always a happy one. After trimming from a sextet to a five-piece, the Dynamics even ditc …
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4/25/2011
Most DJs reared in the '80s remember the scratch riff of "Rockit" like their first kiss. After all, it was the first time turntables took over a song's chorus. The same kind of elation was elicited by …
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4/19/2011
From the overture to the finale, here's where you can sit back and soak up the full range of musicals powered by rock and pop. Go all the way back to Marty Wilde's pompadoured pop-idol croon "One Last …
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4/19/2011
The four-on-the-floor drive of rock 'n' roll revved up the modern musical on both Broadway and the silver screen, making it exciting and, yes, sexy again. You can almost hear the hot-to-trot ste …
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4/19/2011
If you think the most important part of the folk music story lies in the past, check out today's fastest-rising folk artists and have your head turned right around. The finely wrought melodies and thou …
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4/19/2011
One of the basic components that make the folk engine run is storytelling, the kind that digs deep. Today's tale-spinners' toolbox holds not only a way with words, but also a full-color map of the huma …
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4/19/2011
Latin pop is a catch-all generic term that encompasses many popular (as opposed to regional) styles including pop ballads, singer-songwriters, dance tunes, rock, rap, teen pop, and more. One of the big …
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4/19/2011
Just when prog-rock took pop music to the outer reaches of scope and complexity, the Raspberries and Big Star peeled it back to its roots. With little more than a gorgeous melody, shimmering harmonies, …
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