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Lucinda Williams: Essence (Lost Highway)
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Her last album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, was a huge critical success. This much-anticipated follow-up takes a slight detour. Just as stark and plaintive as on its predecessor, the songs on Essence are even more somber in their post-Dylan good-love-gone-bad
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Mac Dre: Brother from Another Planet
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A year after his murder, Mac Dre still thizzles. Who knows how high this rapper with strong North Bay ties could have climbed?
Langton Alley in San Francisco is a long, narrow, one-way street, not unlike any other alley
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Nina Simone: Nina's Song
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CDs salute High Priestess of Soul
Clad in a sparkling evening gown, her broad face gazing with a steely determination that barely hinted at the fiery, defiant spirit that lay within, singer Nina Simone made her network TV
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Mac Dre: Feeling Himself
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Wanda Salvatto ponders the legacy left by her son, Mac Dre
LANGTON ALLEY in San Francisco is a long, narrow one-way street, not unlike any other alley in the city's south of Market Street area. Its gutters are lined with crumpled
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MC Lars: File Transfer Complete
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MC Lars urges music fans to 'Download This Song'
THERE IS a new song on MC Lars' latest record, The Graduate, about music's inevitable slide to a digital distribution mode. The nerdcore rap
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DJ Backside: Doing Her Own Thing
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DJ Backside reps for the ladies and the hyphy movement worldwide
A WEEK before Christmas, east Oakland's DJ Backside packed up her crate, mixer and headphones and flew to Stuttgart, Germany. Her mission? Bring
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Pink Floyd: 'Moon' Struck
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Classic Pink Floyd LP turns 30
As a junior high school student, Lem Oppenheimer started each day for six months listening to side two of Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd's classic 1973 concept album. "Like
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Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Hip
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With the imminent arrival of the touring version of the indie hit 'Dub Side of the Moon,' it's time to note that it's officially OK for hipsters who once wrote them off as rock dinosaurs to admit they love Pink
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Syd Barrett: Syd Barrett
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What set Syd Barrett off on his madness, whether it was LSD, natural brain chemicals or the strobe lights at the rock concert (one interesting theory bruited about)—whether Barrett's absence triggered Pink Floyd's
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50 Cent: Mass Appeal
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How 50 Cent and Jay-Z turned cons into icons
THE 1986 Raising Hell Tour brought together the two biggest acts in hip-hop at that time: Run-D.M.C. and the Beastie Boys. When the tour sold out arena-size venues, some
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