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5 One-Hit Wonders Who Deserve Your Respect
In a lot of instances, the band you know as a one-hit wonder is actually much more than that. So much so that having that one gigantic hit probably did more harm to their reputation than good, because it completely overshadows all of the other great things they accomplished.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- March 21, 2012
The 6 Most Baffling Classic Rock Songs About Women
There is something about earnest love songs that always makes me think, 'Man, I am a way better storyteller than musicians.'
- By Soren Bowie
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- March 12, 2012
The 12 Least Impressive Boasts in Rap Lyrics
Rappers love to brag about all the fun stuff they get to do and all the cool people they get to meet. But sometimes, those boasts stray into territory that seems anything but impressive.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- February 29, 2012
The 6 Most Elaborate F-Yous From Musicians to the Industry
Most musicians have to put up with record company executives being interfering dicks. Not all bands let them get away with it, though. Every now and then, through luck, opportunism or having balls of brass, some get to fight back.
- By Kevin Forde, Alex Strine
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- February 03, 2012
6 Hit Songs Written By the Last Person You'd Expect
When you actually sit down to look at the songwriting credits on famous tracks, the writers often come way the hell out of left field.
- By Adam Tod Brown, Chris Dennison
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- January 25, 2012
The 7 Least Anticipated Albums of 2012
As much as I'd love to unleash my inner music snob and burden you with my extensive list of obscure albums to look forward to in 2012, the fact that just about every music site on the planet has already released their own version of that list is standing in the way. So, in lieu of filling your day with hope and optimism for the state of music in
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- January 24, 2012
The Seven Types of Chris Brown Twitter Troll
As represented by Lantern Corps
- By Brendan McGinley
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- October 27, 2011
6 Classic Songs That Were Supposed to Be Jokes
Every so often a song explodes into the mainstream completely by accident, tearing up the charts to the surprise (and sometimes chagrin) of the musicians responsible.
- By Colin Murdock
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- October 23, 2011
5 Famous Hidden Song Meanings (That Are Total B.S.)
Many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true. They're almost always wrong.
- By Chris S.
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- October 05, 2011
5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras
What do has-been rockers and orchestra players have in common? Drugs, horrific injuries and low pay, of course.
- By Lillian Marx
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- September 05, 2011
Rock Timeline: From Classic Rock to Modern Crap [COMIC]
Pay special attention to the thievery panel. You might learn something.
- By Winston Rowntree
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- August 29, 2011
5 Rock Radio Classics That Actually Suck
But classic rock radio also embraced hundreds of other songs that I accepted as classics simply because they were always there. But for each of the songs on this list below there came a day when I said, 'hey, wait a second, this is a terrible song. You lied to me classic rock radio!'
- By Gladstone
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- July 13, 2011
4 Famous Authors and Their Hip-Hop Equivalents
There's no profound statement, here. Sometimes, if you spend enough time in libraries listening to rap music on your iPod, you notice a bunch of strange similarities
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- June 10, 2011
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