In many ways, the transformations that swept through rock music in the mid- to late-‘60s began about five years earlier in jazz. The straight-up bebop of the 1950s was gradually...
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Seattle band Alice in Chains played their heavy metal slow and gritty. It’s no wonder they were so often lumped in with the grunge rock crowd. Their distinctive sound sprung…
Ranking music often involves tough decisions. Luckily, my decisions about music don’t really matter all that much—whether an Outkast album makes my Top 6 or Top 12 or only Top...
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A truly international act, formed in New York City by twin Italian brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace and Japanese art student Kazu Makino, Blonde Redhead got their start as an...
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Making my way through the top 100 Billboard singles of 1990 was thankfully less of an ordeal than enduring that of 1980. It wasn’t all great of course, but through...
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