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2012 in Review: The R&B …

At the beginning of December, the song perched atop the Billboard’s… more »

A Skeptic’s Guide to Ae…

In recent years, Aerosmith’s fondness for big ballads and endless r… more »

Kelly Clarkson, Stronger…

It’s been nine years since Kelly Clarkson was crowned as the inaugu… more »

Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (Del…

It’s been nine years since Kelly Clarkson was crowned as the inaugu… more »

Mother Love Bone, Mother Love…

Listening to the scant amount of material recorded by the Seattle glam-pu… more »

Album with ID #12239284

The debut album from Guns N' Roses landed with a loud thunk in 1987, … more »

Interview: PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake is an explicitly political album, but… more »

P.J. Harvey, Dry

Eighteen years on, the debut album from PJ Harvey still sounds fairly ast… more »

Icon: P.J. Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey was a notable figure in rock music almost from the exac… more »

Six Degrees of Janet Jackson…

It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »

Jazmine Sullivan, Love Me Bac…

Philadelphia soul singer Jazmine Sullivan has a lusty, untameable voice, … more »

P.J. Harvey, Rid Of Me…

The cover of PJ Harvey's second album shows her in the shower —… more »

P.J. Harvey, 4-Track Demos…

Many attributed the hostile sound of Rid of Me to Steve Albini's engi… more »

P.J. Harvey, To Bring You My …

Like its studio predecessor Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love fades in slow… more »

P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?…

On Is This Desire? Harvey utilizes more machine-generated beats than on p… more »

P.J. Harvey, Uh Huh Her…

After the relative splendor of Stories from the City, Stories from the Se… more »

P.J. Harvey, Stories From The…

Perhaps PJ Harvey's most accessible record (complete with Thom Yorke … more »

P.J. Harvey, The Peel Session…

PJ Harvey had a particularly fruitful relationship with the tastemaking R… more »

P.J. Harvey, White Chalk…

The cover of White Chalk shows a harshly lit Harvey sitting in a white dr… more »

Guns N’ Roses, Use Your…

Use Your Illusion II feels like more of an odds-and-sods collection than … more »

Guns N’ Roses, Use Your…

A Wings cover, a 10-minute mini-opera that recalls Bloodrock's "D.O.A… more »

Stone Temple Pilots, Core…

Many people blame the influence of Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam when runnin… more »

Muse, Origin Of Symmetry…

Muse's 2001 follow-up to its debut, Showbiz, had a long road to the U… more »

Black Mountain, Wilderness He…

Rock music in 2010 is in an odd place. Commercial radio is being pulled s… more »

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Kicking at the Boundaries of Metal

By Jon Wiederhorn, eMusic Contributor

As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »

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