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As the story goes, when Rosanne Cash was eighteen years old, her father (Johnny Cash, for the clueless) gave her a list of one hundred essential country songs as a gift to educate her about what he did at work. That list lay fallow in the singer's effects for...

Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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Since forming twenty-eight years ago, Slayer has established itself as one of the most blistering and aggressive metal acts in North America – that's on the books, it's not news. The band has won a wildly dedicated following on the strength of their...

Tuesday, 03 November 2009
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To paraphrase The Tragically Hip, a couple of years ago when most of his bandmates started splintering off from The Strokes and starting their own solo and side projects (drummer Fabrizio Moretti formed Little Joy, Albert Hammond Jr. has released two solo albums now,...

Monday, 02 November 2009
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Since Dave Grohl first rose from the ashes of Nirvana in 1995, he has managed to set himself apart from the Grunge scene that first drew him notice and establish his own unique voice that has won its own dedicated fan base over the last fourteen years. It wasn't...

Sunday, 01 November 2009
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In just six short years, Joss Stone has run through an accelerated career arc that has been both blessed and cursed with a trail of the highest peaks and the deepest valleys. The differences in reception for albums like The Soul Sessions,  Mind, Body & Soul...

Sunday, 01 November 2009
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Sometimes, as hardcore rockers get older, they find that it gets progressively more difficult to summon the fire required to pound out aggressive rock on a nightly basis. They slow down, ease up and, while the flames may not have died, they dim or at least start to...

Sunday, 01 November 2009
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Without a doubt, one of the most hotly anticipated records of 2009 has been Wolfmother's follow-up to 2005's smash self-titled debut – if only because the album represents an against-the-odds release. At the beginning of this year, drummer Myles Heskett...

Saturday, 31 October 2009
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At the end of the day, when the books finally get opened on bassist Mark Sandman and his band Morphine, it will be found that while rock history is dotted with bands that made a tremendous impact but seemed to come from nowhere, Morphine set a whole new template for...

Saturday, 31 October 2009
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For the last nineteen years, Converge has led a modest but respectable career mixing metal and hardcore (someone once went so far as to call it 'Grindcore') and has amassed a decent following for their efforts – there's no denying that – but...

Thursday, 29 October 2009
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No matter how open-minded a fan of any given band might be, there are moments when one has to be skeptical about their output – particularly when that output is an album specially dedicated to covers. Think about it; why would a group decide to stop in its tracks...

Wednesday, 28 October 2009
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