Essential Guide

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  An Essential Guide to Faith No More, Mr. Bungle and the World of Mike Patton

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2017

  While he's primarily known as the frontman for Faith No More, Mike Patton has worked with an extensive number of bands and musicians across...

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  An Essential Guide to the 'Planet of the Apes' Films

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2017

  It's been nearly half a century since Charlton Heston crash-landed on Earth (whoops, spoilers!) and helped change the course of modern sci...

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  An Essential Guide to Chris Cornell

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2017

  Chris Cornell contained multitudes. A wailing banshee who would transform into soulful crooner — sometimes across just a few bars of music...

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  An Essential Guide to Mount Eerie, the Microphones and the World of Phil Elverum

  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2017

  The earliest releases by Phil Elverum (who, at the time, was still spelling his last name as "Elvrum") firmly embraced the era of lo-fi rec...

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  An Essential Guide to Blondie

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2017

  Blondie are a new wave group from when that was actually new; a punk group with clear vocals and pop hits; a rock'n'roll group whose best-k...

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  An Essential Guide to Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2017

  The recorded output of Stephin Merritt — the songwriting brains behind the Magnetic Fields and an assortment of side-projects including Fut...

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  ​An Essential Guide to Marilyn Manson

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2017

  You might think Marilyn Manson would be done with trying to shock people.   As the leader of the industrial-glam-rock band of the same name...

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  An Essential Guide to Christmas Music

  PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2016

  Christmas music is arguably the most peculiar musical genre in existence. For one thing, it has the shortest lifespan per annum (because le...