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Jack Bruce / Robin Trower Seven Moons (2008)
Jack Bruce must have enjoyed his 2005 get-together with Cream so much that, when Clapton and Baker were unwilling to continue the collaboration, he rang up Robin Trower to renew the brief power trio fling they had in the mid-'80s. ...
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Everlast Whitey Ford Sings the Blues (1998)
"What It's Like" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
The former frontman for House of Pain sheds the hip-hop-only mode and steps out into the world of rock with this release. Tapping into the ...
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A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms (2000)
Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan offers up something to fill the collective void of fans eagerly awaiting a follow up to AENIMA. Keenan teamed with Tool guitar tech and A Perfect Circle guitarist/composer Billy Howerdel for MER DE NOMS, which ...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
Certified 7 x platinum by the RIAA featuring 'Under The Bridge', 'Breaking Girl', 'Funky Munks', 'Suck My Kiss', and 'Give It Away'. 1991 release produced by Rick Rubin.
Additional personnel includes: Brendan O'Brien (Melltron); Pete Weiss (Jew's harp); Gail Frusciante (background ...
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System Of A Down Mezmerize (2005)
Many rock bands talk endlessly about their "sound," refining a basic formula until it's either perfect or perfectly boring. System of a Down, however, developed a loyal fanbase with the opposite approach--the group mixes genres so freely that describing what ...
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Weezer Weezer (Blue Album) (1994)
There's a demented pop fanaticism to Weezer you gotta love. Weezer's debut, produced by former Cars frontman Ric Ocasek, combines Pixies roller-coaster guitar rides with a helping of Beatle-esque moptop harmonies. Ocasek's production and Weezer's strong material will bring a ...
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U2 Rattle and Hum (1988)
Recorded live during the Joshua Tree Tour in the U.S. and Europe in 1987.
Functioning as both the soundtrack to U2's feature film documentary and as a tentative follow-up to their career-making blockbuster, Rattle and Hum is a bit messy. A ...
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Kid Rock Kid Rock (2003)
Kid Rock's self-titled fourth major-label outing finds him proudly reaffirming his blue-collar roots and love of classic rock and outlaw country music by inviting a bunch of famous friends to join him and his Twisted Brown Trucker Band in kicking ...
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Candlebox Candlebox (1993)
The first rock band signed to Madonna's Maverick label, Candlebox have handsomely paid off the distinction by selling a few million copies of their self-titled debut while clocking in over a year on the Billboard Album Chart. Although Candlebox hail ...
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Gov't Mule Deep End 1 (2001)
18 New Songs By Warren Haynes. Feat.25 Best Bassists In R&R
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Jason Mraz We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things (2008)
Track Listing: Make It Mine; I'm Yours; Lucky; Butterfly; Live High; Love for a Child; Details in the Fabric; Coyotes; Only Human; Dynamo of Volition, The; If It Kills Me; Beautiful Mess, A;
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My Morning Jacket At Dawn (2001)
My Morning Jacket's second album, AT DAWN, builds on the twangy rock of THE TENNESSEE FIRE, while expanding the Kentucky band's sound in numerous directions. The opening title track eases into a dreamy refrain that recalls shoegazer groups of the ...
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Arcade Fire Suburbs (2010)
Montreal's Arcade Fire successfully avoided the sophomore slump with 2007's apocalyptic Neon Bible. Heavier and more uncertain than their near perfect, darkly optimistic 2004 debut, the album aimed for the nosebleed section and left a red mess. Having already fled ...
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Gavin Degraw Chariot (2006)
Triangulated somewhere between the passionate earnestness of David Gray, the polished post-Jeff Buckleyisms of Howie Day, and the Hootie-meets-Petty pop-rock of Pete Yorn, the photogenic young troubadour Gavin DeGraw (he's even got a great name) seems almost preternaturally destined for ...
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Rehab Graffiti the World (2005)
Listeners looking for something easy to categorize will find GRAFFITI THE WORLD confounding, but everyone else is in for a treat. Rehab heroically attempt to mix greasy Southern rock, hip hop, reggae, and whatever else catches their fancy. Far from ...
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Avett Brothers Emotionalism (2007)
On their 2007 outing, EMOTIONALISM, the Avett Brothers offer up an engaging set that mixes a charmingly old-fashioned acoustic aesthetic with an almost punk-like immediacy. Consisting of North Carolina siblings Seth and Scott Avett (primarily guitar and banjo, respectively) and ...
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Dead Weather Horehound (2009)
The Dead Weather, which combines the talents of Jack White, Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs), Alison Mosshart (Kills), and Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, Raconteurs), aren't so much concerned with living up to expectations as they are about defying them. ...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm with You (2011)
Losing John Frusciante for a second time doesn't send the Red Hot Chili Peppers into a tailspin. By now, the Chili Peppers shed guitarists like a second skin, changing their outer layer but retaining their inner core. Such is the ...
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Coldplay Viva La Vida (2008)
On 2008's VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS, Coldplay follows up X&Y's accessible anthems by tweaking its signature Britpop sound with the aid of renowned producer Brian Eno, celebrated not only for his own innovative ambient albums, ...
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up from Below (2009)
"40 Day Dream," the Motown-infused, OutKast-inspired, heavily orchestrated "Beatlesque" soul jam that opens Up from Below, serves as a pretty good litmus test for what follows. Listeners who are put off by the robe-wearing Polyphonic Spree's cultish glazed-eye self-help anthems ...
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Bon Iver Bon Iver (2011)
After making his debut with a collection of hushed, intimate folk songs recorded in a cabin, Bon Iver stretched his artistic legs by collaborating with Kanye West and experimenting with Auto-Tune on a 2009 EP. Released two years later, this ...
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Pearl Jam Backspacer (2009)
Of all the bands to emerge from the early `90s grunge explosion, Pearl Jam was both the longest-lived and most consistently interesting. After several albums that found the group taking an increasingly experimental direction, the Seattle quintet returned to its ...
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Texas Hippie Coalition Rollin' (2010)
The Texas Hippie Coalition like to describe their hard-rocking yet melodic work as "red dirt metal." So what is red dirt metal? Essentially, it's alternative metal with a strong Southern rock influence -- and even if you haven't heard THC's ...
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My Morning Jacket Circuital (2011)
Although recorded after a brief hiatus, during which Carl Broemel released a solo album and Jim James co-formed Monsters of Folk, Circuital feels like a close cousin to Evil Urges and Z, retaining both albums' eclectic pop sound while presenting ...
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Steve Earle I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (2011)
I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive is Steve Earle's first recording of original material since 2007's Washington Square Serenade. The 11-track set was produced by T-Bone Burnett and follows Earle's 2009 Grammy-winning Townes, his tribute to late mentor ...
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