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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: Willie Nelson
Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … 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 »