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He saw the movie "Wild Style" in 1987 and bought a turntable the next day. Something about Grandmaste
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N.W.A
Niggaz With Attitude. The name says everything. Shamelessly self-promoting and utterly megalomaniacal
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A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls was started by Mike Score and his brother Ali in 1979 in Liverpool. Mike, who was
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Of Montreal
of Montreal is an American indie pop band formed in Athens, Georgia. Fronted by Kevin Barnes, it was
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Madonna
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Grateful Dead
On a Friday night in 1989, the word started drifting through certain circles that a band called The W
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The Sex Pistols
The Sex Pistols stepped on to the London stage in 1975 fit to offend. The sneering, spitting brats se
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Stiff Little Fingers
Stiff Little Fingers began bombing great music in the 70's while outlasting bombs in Ireland during t
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Deerhoof
Deerhoof is a San Francisco musical group, currently consisting of Satomi Matsuzaki (usually vocals a
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Placebo
Placebo is an alternative rock band formed in London in 1994, consisting of Brian Molko, Stefan Olsda
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Boris
While most commonly associated with the doom metal and drone metal scenes, Boris are also renowned fo
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Black Flag
Black Flag was a hardcore punk band formed in 1976 in southern California, largely as the brainch
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Tom Waits
Tom Waits recognizes voice as a mutable device, able to tell a story, create a mood, become-animal. H
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Arnold Schoenberg
The harmonic foundations on which Western music had rested since the Renaissance got a strong shaking
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim earned his musical stripes alongside the best in the business: his first foray into
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Joni Mitchell
Whether the pond she's skating across is folk, pop-rock, or jazz, Joni Mitchell attacks song with an
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Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend is an American indie rock band from New York, formed in 2006 and signed to XL Recordi
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Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward Yorke (born 7 October 1968 in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England) is a Grammy-no
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Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx started in Brixton, South London in 1994, where they held a regular night club called R
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Future Sound of London
Lauded by Details Magazine as "the metal machine music of Lou Reed's nightmares," Future Sound of Lon
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Lene Lovich
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Dengue Fever
This is an up and coming Cambodian-American band with a unique sound that is equal parts psychedelic
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Pussycat Dolls
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Cibo Matto
While no doubt enjoying a certain Japanese sensibility -- after all, that accent broadcasts their lin
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The Specials
Any band that brings together Jamaican ska and British punk and actually makes it fun should indeed b
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Pierre Boulez
Born in 1925 in Montbrison, France, Pierre Boulez attended university to study mathematics -- a subje
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Henryk Gorecki
Like the poetry of Wallace Stevens, Henryck Górecki 's music seems cerebral almost to the point of
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Maria Callas
What is it that makes soprano Maria Callas stand out from all the other outstanding vocalists of her
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Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk's reclusiveness is notorious. They've turned down all offers to work with big names-- not D
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Choichun Leung
Choichun Leung left Wales to pursue a degree in metal-smithing at Loughborough college of Art and De
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Grace Jones
Grace Jones is a singer, actress, model, and fashion icon. She got her started as a disco star in the
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Beastie Boys
In 1981, New York witnessed the formation of the first successful white hip-hop group. Mike D, Ad-Roc
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A-HA
a-ha is a Grammy Award-nominated band from Norway. They are the best selling Norwegian band worldwide
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Johnny Marr
Johnny Marr is an English guitarist, keyboardist, harmonica player and singer. Marr rose to fame in t
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