As evidenced across Homeboy Sandman’s third album, there is enough clarity and inventiveness in his rhymes to cover all manner of social issues and elements of the human condition.
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“I feel like ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ is our greatest work,” Terry Ellis says. “We definitely pushed the envelope on that album.”
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To risk the loyalty of her R&B base with such an audacious album like ‘Flesh Tone’ must have briefly weighed on Kelis, but she was never one to backtrack once she started on a path.
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Check out our picks for five great songs missing from ‘The Who Hits 50!’ and let us know which songs you would have added to the final track list.
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Not a household name to the masses, but a formidable emcee nonetheless, the Brooklyn-bred emcee helped add some depth to the sound of East Coast hip-hop at the turn of the century.
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Anu had an agenda placed firmly in her sights when making Stylin’ Up: to bring her Australian culture to the rest of the world. And she did.
Read moreCarly Simon’s ‘Playing Possum’ Turns 45 | Anniversary Retrospective
As with the behavioral pattern used by possums to throw off predators, Simon herself was eager to “throw off” certain detractors who might try to dismiss her fifth album as thematically shallow.
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Kings Go Forth were different than their other 21st century classic soul revivalists, for their DNA sprang forth from the harmonies of the Philadelphia sound and a later era of soul music: the 1970s.
Read moreParadise Waiting: Remembering John Prine
Photo: Danny Clinch
No matter how horrible—or goofy—the world seemed to get, there was John Prine, maybe telling you how to fix things, but mostly letting you know everything will be alright.
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Clapton may have been the bigger name, but Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett ran the show, their vocals scratching that genuine soul country itch that no Brit could ever hope to match.
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