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  A Game Of Words: Marv Won Releases Sooner Than Later

  January 4 at 4 a.m.

  Chess is a strategic and competitive game where each move is not only time sensitive, but players must visualize multiple steps ahead to win. Detroit-based rapper Marv Won sees the similarities between the classic game and the world of battle rap where rappers outsmart their opponents in a game of...

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  George Thorogood Gets "Bad to the Bone" with Full Beantown Party

  Monday, December 28, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  The year 1982 was turning out pretty good for George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Nearly a decade into their existence, the blues ‘n boogie band had opened a string of European dates for the Rolling Stones (as they had done the previous year in the United States). They were musical...

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  Year-End List: Albums You Might Have Missed

  Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 4:30 a.m.

  It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year we’d rather forget—an endless feedback loop of disappointment and disaster. It’s even further obvious that few have had a more difficult path navigating this mess than the countless number of musicians whose financial and creative livelihoods have been put on an indefinite halt, given their increasing reliance on entertaining large (and preferably jam-packed) gatherings of people.Yet that isn’t to say these folks have merely gone dormant over the last nine months...

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  Keeping The Music Alive: Record Store Day Black Friday Releases

  Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 6:27 a.m.

  Despite a year that has been anything but normal, the holiday shopping season has arrived just as it has in years past. Black Friday may look different this year, but the desire and need to check our loved ones off our Christmas list remains the same. Record Store Day has...

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  Mick Box Celebrates 50 Years of Uriah Heep with a Big Box! [UPDATED]

  Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  It’s not every person who can literally hold their life’s work in their hands. But that’s what exactly happened with Uriah Heep guitarist Mick Box when he recently unpacked the band’s massive, career-spanning box set 50 Years in Rock (BMG). “I was overjoyed, and it was an honest emotional reaction...

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  Bird Flies Again...But Hopes to Land in Some New Nests

  Friday, October 30, 2020 at 4 a.m.

  Today, their names are among the highest of jazz titans, familiar even generations after they laid down their most famous work: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charlie Parker. But it’s easy to forget that when these jazz men first started playing the new strain of bebop...