Timeline

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  Jawbreaker

  Days of Whine and Poses

  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2010

  Their influence on contemporary punk, emo, and indie rock can't be overstated, nor can the value of the lesson in major label woes they typ...

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  Gil Scott-Heron

  Pioneering Poet

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2010

  Gil Scott-Heron's voice has been described as a mixture of "mahogany, sunshine and tears," but recent decades have worn it down to a weary...

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  Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

  It's Only Time

  PUBLISHED Jan 22, 2010

  Whimsical curmudgeon Stephin Merritt is undeniably one of the most significant artists of the past 20 years. A clever wordsmith equally dev...

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  Blue Rodeo

  Better Off As We Are

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2009

  It's easy to take something for granted when it becomes as integral to your cultural identity as an accent or even the changing seasons. Fo...

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  Slayer

  Reign Supreme

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2009

  "Slayer!" Second only to pleas for Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird," virtually every concert-goer of the past quarter-century has heard this pas...

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  Kris Kristofferson

  The Pilgrim's Progress

  PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

  Kris Kristofferson has been many things over the course of his 73 years so far: Rhodes Scholar, soldier, janitor, actor, activist, outlaw....

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  Jay-Z

  Beyond <i>Reasonable Doubt</i>

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2009

  Despite the fact that he's Beyonce's husband, a former CEO of Def Jam Records and a part owner of the New Jersey Nets, the most valuable an...

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  Voivod

  To <i>Infini</i> and Beyond

  PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2009

  Quebec progressive metal band Voivod have an influence that can't always be heard in today's musical climate, but can most certainly be hea...