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Icon: Madonna

From the very start, Madonna has called the shots. She has most always co… more »

Icon: Frank Zappa

It was actually Edgard Varèse who said, “The present-day compo… more »

Icon: B.B. King

As the only true bluesman to successfully cross over into the mainstream,… more »

Icon: Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac is perhaps the only group in existence that started out as … more »

Icon: Michael Gira

When Swans released their album The Seer in 2012, it was cause for celebr… more »

Icon: Animal Collective

Not to pull an I-was-there or anything, but the first time I saw an Anima… more »

Icon: Randy Newman

Randy Newman has never fit squarely into any conventional pop music categ… more »

Icon: Damon Albarn and Blur

There is a clip of Damon Albarn being interviewed in August of 1995, on t… more »

Icon: Pierre Boulez (as compo…

The story most often told about composer Pierre Boulez is the one about t… more »

Icon: Can

If you made a list of bands whose cultural influence and current stature … more »

Icon: Willie Nelson

Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … more »

Icon: XTC

Classified as post-punk, power pop, New Wave, art-rock, neo-psychedelia, … more »

Icon: Sleater-Kinney

From their formation in Washington State in the mid-1990s to their amicab… more »

Icon: Kraftwerk

Like many German bands of the early 1970s, Düsseldorf… more »

Icon: Pulp

Some artists take a while to find their mature voice, and few have taken … more »

Icon: The Roots

The more the Roots face the bright stage lights, whether on tour or Late … more »

Icon: The Kronos Quartet

“Music is a huge place,” violinist David Harrington once said… more »

Icon: Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige sometimes refers to herself in the third person, which you … more »

Icon: Tom Waits

Tom Waits’s career can be easily split into halves: the barfly croo… more »

The World of Wilco

It’s a tribute to leader Jeff Tweedy’s enduring commitment to… more »

Icon: Pearl Jam

When Pearl Jam finally compiled a catalog-skimming greatest hits collecti… more »

Icon: Queen

It’s not often that a single band features one charismatic showman,… more »

Icon: Youssou N’Dour

Your first exposure to Youssou N’Dour’s soaring tenor keen li… more »

Icon: Death Cab for Cutie

You can imagine Ben Gibbard’s late-’90s Bellingham, Washingto… 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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