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Sound And Vision: Cover Me — Ten Remakes Of Great Songs That Are Better Than The Originals
posted: June 24, 2011
“Have you lost your mind?!” That’s the thought bubble I could have sworn I saw spring from my friend’s head several weeks ago when I mentioned that my all-time favorite remake is Aretha Franklin‘s 1971…
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Rapper's Delight: Kameleon Beats
posted: June 4, 2011
With a devotion to live instrumentation and an appetite for classic ’70s vinyl, Kameleon Beats is basically the epitome of an old school hip hop producer. A lot of producers get caught up in strictly…
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Sound And Vision: Where Is the Love? — The Disappearing Power-Ballad Duet
posted: March 25, 2011
Back in the day, every major female pop star had one: a male pop star (or two, or three or more) who loved her”at least on the record and on the charts. Over the years,…
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End of the Revolution: Has Pop Lost Its Social Conscience?
posted: January 14, 2011
“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles taunted in 1968. Seventeen years later, the Cult declared, “There’s a revolution.” When Tracy Chapman started “talkin’ ’bout a revolution” in 1988, she left the battlefield with…
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Soul Searching: Tess Henley
posted: December 19, 2010
This week’s Soul Searching artist is a passionate singer-songwriter from Seattle, WA”Tess Henley. It seems Tess was destined to be musically inclined. Her pregnant mother performed nightly until the very week she gave birth to…
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Soul Searching: Shaun Mykals
posted: November 18, 2010
Self made and motivated to win, Shaun Mykals is this week’s Soul Searching featured artist. Shaun’s first project, Urban Sophistication, is simply an extraordinary album. You can hear the effort put into making the recording…
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