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The Clash's most ambitious record is also my favorite. Here's why I think history has finally caught up with it.
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Why Fishbone deserved more than they got
A genre-resistant Black band from Los Angeles spent two decades being too punk for funk, too funk for punk, and too good for either to ignore. A look back at the records, the live shows, and the institutional failure to give them their due.
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The band that supposedly invented goth spent most of their career trying to escape the label. A closer listen to what they actually made suggests the category always fit badly - and that the music is stranger and better for it.
READ →The Slayer problem: too fast for the mainstream, too good to ignore.
Show No Mercy through Seasons in the Abyss is one of the great five-album runs in metal history. That it doesn't get mentioned alongside the foundational runs of Sabbath, Metallica, and Maiden says more about how we talk about speed than about the records themselves.
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