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Under And Under
ListenUnder And Under by Blank Dogs

In certain New York circles, everyone knows about Mike Sniper, but no one knows who Mike Sniper is. ...

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Off The Wall
ListenOff The Wall by Michael Jackson

Jackson’s Off The Wall had the brashness of the truest debut. Released at the close of the ‘70s when...

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Horses
ListenHorses by Patti Smith

Artists as unconventional as Patti Smith rarely got to release a major-label record in 1975, and "re...

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Shout at the Devil

A User's Guide to Motley Crue by Chuck Klosterman

Motley Crue occupies a peculiar space in the media landscape: Despite selling over fifty million albums, at least three members of the band are more famous on their own than all of the songs they've recorded as a group. It's hard to imagine another band who could publish three bestselling books about themselves without really mentioning their music at all. The Dirt is a 448-page oral history, but — in one of the only passages where chief songwriter Nikki Sixx talks about the group's musical legacy — he d...
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Cool Cats

Flying Saucers Rock & Roll by Lenny Kaye

Of all rock's family tendrils, rockabilly is the one that keeps re-boppin', sporting a revival every decade or so, its coming-of-age kicks allowing each new offspring to roll its own. Guitar-heavy, emphasizing Wild Ones rebellion ("whaddya got?") and sonic dazzle (heavy on the reverb and chest vibrato), it raves and paves garage-punk (The Seeds to Damned), shockabilly (The Cramps and Chadbourne), new-wave (Stray Cats and Dire Straits), waggle-wobble (Jon Spencer and Boss Hog), Nirvana and the White Stripes. I...
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