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the replacements
One way or another, all music is about emotion, even when it’s about lack of emotion. But some records reach the parts others never can, raising emotional intensity to a pitch that can verge on the unbearable. More »
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rock dreams cover
The great Belgian artist Guy Peellaert died on Monday at the age of 74. It's his work you see on the covers of Bowie's Diamond Dogs and the Stones' It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, but his greatest work was the 1974 collection Rock Dreams. More »
Billie Holiday
For the last month Rock's Backpages has offered up a slew of sobworthy classics from all walks of pop. Country, soul, AOR, dance: you name the genre, we've scoured it for heartbreak greats. So get yer handkerchiefs ready... here's our tearjerking Top More »
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the white album
The Beatles' double "White Album" is deemed an eclectic classic today. It's intriguing and amusing, therefore, to revisit Mike Jahn's contemporary New York Times appraisal of The Beatles on the eve of its US release in November 1968. More »
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Ray Charles
Rock's Backpages offers up a ton of sobworthy classics from all walks of pop. Country, soul, AOR, dance: you name the genre, we've scoured it for heartbreak greats. So get yer handkerchiefs ready... here come the next 20 , from ex-Temp David Ruffin t More »
Dusty Springfield
You name the genre, we've scoured it for heartbreak greats. So get your handkerchiefs ready... here come the next twenty, from Michael McDonald to Gillian Welch. More »
ISB 500 spirits
Forty years ago this month, the Incredible String Band released their benchmark double album Wee Tam & The Big Huge, just one of many milestones in a year that saw them become the counterculture's most unlikely pop stars. More »
Patsy Cline
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Music review: Rihanna's CD is decent, but uneven

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Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:22am PST

AP - Rihanna, "Rated R" (Island Def Jam) On Rihanna's last CD, she was a good girl gone bad. On her latest, "Rated R," she's definitely a bad girl — more like a mad girl, and a dangerous one, out for revenge. T… More »

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