It's hard not to imagine a lot of head-scratching from casual rock critics when The Stooges released their debut album in 1969. Sure people had been e...
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> Today's Served Three Ways is a special one for me. Radiohead have been my favorite band for over 15 years now. I've seen them numerous times including...
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> It's not for nothing that Sam Cooke became known as the King of Soul. He's widely considered one of the chief pioneers of soul music. Indeed, before h...
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> Although Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" has no relationship to the Marvel comic book superhero who bears the same name, the song's protagonist shares an e...
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> It's hard to believe it now, but The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" was originally the subject of a fair amount of hand-wringing by songwriters Brian Wi...
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> Nina Simone's catalog include two of the most powerful tracks ever recorded: "Feeling Good" and "Be My Husband." The latter of the two first appeared ...
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> It's hard to believe that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut album was released nearly 9 years ago (in April 2003). Although it's a remarkably solid debut fro...
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> The memorable three note guitar riff powering the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was intended as a throwaway placeholder to be replac...
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> I caught up with Micah, Andrea and Trevor from Ann Arbor, Michigan's Breathe Owl Breathe before their set at San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill. T...
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> Neil Young's On The Beach was originally released in 1974 as the follow up to the commercially and critically successful Harvest. It was raw and loose...
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Elliott Smith wrote some of the prettiest pop songs ever written. Of course, writing a pretty pop song isn't the same thing as writing an upbeat pop s...
