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A Grateful Dead performance is always a cornucopia of covers and originals–songs selected from history and songs composed through experience–served seamlessly alongside one another. Sometimes, you can’t tell which is which. See which of your favorite Dead tunes are actually covers.
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The best Irish tunes for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration, plus the origin story for “Shipping Up to Boston”.
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Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” isn’t just the ultimate one-hit wonder. It was also inspired by another one-hit wonder.
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MTV era stars, classic rock veterans, Dirty Dancing and the original Rickroll. Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown for the week of February 27, 1988.
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Led Zeppelin may be one of the greatest bands of all time, but they’re also the biggest thieves in rock history. We lay out just a bit of the very damning evidence against them.
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Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Countdown for the week ending on January 26th of 1974 is a stew of funk, classic rock, silky soul, and patriotic pablum.
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Can music help you focus on work? According to something called the Mozart effect…maybe. Find out more, and check out the records that get me dialed in.
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From Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” to Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power,” from Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” to The Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen,” a chronological history of American protest music.
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A New Year stands before you, brimming with possibility. Whatever the hell that song is about, it makes you well up with a distinctly wintry kind of warmth.
