Here is where rap music begins. In-your-face, confrontational and controversial, unafraid to tackle complex issues of race politics, the Last Poets were three African-American poets—Omar Ben Hassen, Abiodun Oyewole, and…
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Back in my time (late ‘80s), any college party was bound to have a little of the Beat (generally known to Americans like me as the English Beat) on the…
Before the retrospective listening project that has since become this website, I had never heard of the Undertones. None of their songs felt remotely familiar to me. Yet so much…
George Harrison, a.k.a., the quiet Beatle, and the Beatles lead guitarist, needs little introduction. Like all the Beatles, his best work came within the context of the group, where he...
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Former Beatle John Lennon needs little introduction—if Paul was the light, creative, artful Beatle, and George the neglected spiritual Beatle, and Ringo the oddball, then John was the angry, bitter,...
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The Only Ones are pretty much unknown in America, which is a shame, because they were one of the best bands of their time. They released two terrific albums, their...
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