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Icon: The Roots
The more the Roots face the bright stage lights, whether on tour or Late … more »
Icon: Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige sometimes refers to herself in the third person, which you … more »
Icon: Eminem
Every rapper has a pseudonym or five, and every major pop star has toyed … more »
Icon: Jay-Z
As he is fond of pointing out, by the time he released his debut album, R… more »
Icon: James Brown
Every James Brown show began with a hypeman introducing the star of the s… more »
Icon: Sam Cooke
The sacred and the profane: So many cunning, talented artists of the last… more »
Icon: The Notorious B.I.G.
It’s not that he was the first storyteller. Or the first vulnerable… more »
Icon: Prince
Michael Jackson set the bar for pop success in the ’80s; Bruce Spri… more »
Icon: Curtis Mayfield
Few musicians deserve the word “icon” the way Curtis Mayfield… more »
Icon: Ray Charles
Even as a teenager, Ray Charles was an old soul. He never cut rock … more »
Icon: Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin was groomed from birth to sing. The daughter of a Detroit… more »
Icon: Wu-Tang Clan
About halfway through their game-changing 1993 debut, Enter the Wu-Tang, … more »
Icon: Outkast
The player and the poet; the funk-faithful homeboy who raises pit bulls a… more »
Icon: A Tribe Called Quest
If fellow travelers De La Soul were the giddy braniacs and the Jungle Bro… 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 »