If you’re a fan of Relient K, Jennifer Knapp, GRITS, Sonicflood or The Katinas, then you owe Out of Eden more than a simple thank you card. Each of these artists were catapulted to success by Toby McKeehan’s own Gotee Records—the label he launched solely to promote Out of Eden’s music. And if you enjoy…
Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the Chicago skyline and proclaimed, “Let there be house, ” his acolytes responded, “And let it be deep.” And it was good. Slower, moodier, and more sensual than most other club-music forms — heir to disco at its most mirrorball-blissful — deep house has survived for nearly three decades, staying mostly out of the…
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List Criteria: Vote up and add all of your favorite country rappers. Blending the two seemingly opposite genres of country music and hip hop, country rap music has taken the music world by storm. Known also as hick-hop or rural rap, country-rap, which rose to prominence in the early 2s, has continued to rise and grow in popularity. The best country-rap artists - or country…
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The origins and ownership of the term house music have been hotly debated since, well, always. House music is a lot things to a lot of people. It s disco s revenge. It s a feeling. It s controllable desire you can own. While house can still be a little elusive, it s like the Supreme Court s definition of pornography: You ll know it when you hear it. House was born in Chicago…
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Gary Miller / Kevin Winter / Frazer Harrison, Getty Images With more than a decade having passed since we entered the new millennium, there have been thousands of hard rock songs crammed into the ears of music fans worldwide. As time passes, it becomes further evident which bands have left their eternal footprint in the realm of music, with many of those acts releasing notable…
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At Sinfini it’s been our ongoing mission to “ cut through classical ” and help you discover the very best of classical music over the last three years. We’re lucky to have had so much encouragement from all of you and help and input from the world’s most creative musicians and organisations along the way. From today we’d like to recommend that you continue your musical discovery…
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The Supremes photographes in 1964. Redferns/Getty Images At Billboard.com, we ve celebrated our second annual by looking at the biggest songs, best music videos, current state of girl groups, drafting our dream girl groups, scoping out post-girl group solo songs and a whole lot more. It s time to get to the main event: an updated list of the 10 biggest girl groups of all time…
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There is no doubt that music is just as popular in Germany as it is in the rest of the world, however if you ask anybody living outside of said country to name a German artist, chances are they will name Rammstein. Nena, Die Toten Hosen, and Tokyo Hotel are a few others that are widely known, but compared to music from the rest of the world there are not too many easily-recalled…
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