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A User's Guide to Alan Lo…
The late Alan Lomax commands a nearly unparalleled reverence in American … more »
A User’s Guide to Laure…
Probably no one had a lengthier career in Jamaican music than Laurel Aitk… more »
A User’s Guide to Pete …
Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie stand alongside each other, incontrovertibl… more »
A User's Guide to Motley …
Motley Crue occupies a peculiar space in the media landscape: Despite sel… more »
A User's Guide to Sarah R…
"One day, when the world is set to right/ I'm going to murder all the… more »
A User’s Guide to DFA
For all the oft-vaunted frustration about getting indie rockers into danc… more »
A User’s Guide to Dhafe…
When the innovative Tunisian singer and oud player Dhafer Youssef appeare… more »
A User's Guide to Anticon
For many, the anxiety of influence often results in something like imitat… more »
A User's Guide to Bathory
Back in the '80s and '90s, Sweden's Bathory wasn't the fa… more »
A User's Guide to Paul Bl…
In a 2006 interview for the website All About Jazz, pianist Paul Bley sai… more »
A User's Guide to Abdulla…
More than most musicians, jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim is a man of autob… more »
A User's Guide to Electro…
While Kraftwerk's legal team was busy trying to sue Tommy Boy Records… more »
A User's Guide to Eddie P…
When you title your first solo album after your band, as Latin pianist Ed… more »
A User's Guide to the Tel…
Listening to the Television Personalities 'records is like watching s… more »
A User's Guide to Opeth
Mikael Akerfeldt is in an affable mood. He's remembering those back-i… more »
A User’s Guide to John …
For the first couple decades of his career, John Lee Hooker was perhaps t… more »
A User's Guide to Emerson…
So when exactly did Emerson, Lake & Palmer become cool? Oh… rig… more »
A User’s Guide to the C…
Imagine prog rock without the pretension, unselfconsciously and humorousl… more »
A User's Guide to: Sparks
One brother sings and prances like a well-trained, highly effete poodle. … more »
A User's Guide to Lonnie …
They called it, cleverly if perhaps a bit self-consciously, the “bl… more »
A User's Guide to the Voi…
If you want to understand a country, look at its folk music. Not the new … more »
A User's Guide to David M…
When we last left tenor saxophonist/bass clarinetist David Murray, after … more »
A User's Guide to Metalhe…
Metalheadz, the London label founded by one of drum and bass's bigges… more »
A User's Guide to Squire
One of the most fondly remembered British mod bands of the late '70s … 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 »