100b has not, in the past, been shy about our love of The Decemberists. With last month’s release of The Hazards Of Love, The Decemberists have five studio albums, plus numerous EPs, covers, and b-sides to their name. They’ve got a little of everything: humor, tragedy, history, odd characters, ballads, songs to shout along to, [...]
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From the projects to the stage to the boardroom, hip hop performer and entreprenuer extraordinaire Shawn Carter – alias Jay-Z – has established himself through 10 (soon to be 11) albums as perhaps the greatest hip hop artist of all time. He is now almost a charicature of himself so it is easy to forget [...]
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Those of you with a freakishly good memory may remember that our last 100best post before our little hiatus, honored Pearl Jam. To continue our celebration of Grunge giants, we could not leave out the reigning kings of the genre. The tragic death of their frontman, ill-adviced merchandising, and the courtroom drama still surrounding the [...]
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As one of the bands that epitomized the Grunge explosion of 1991, Pearl Jam has a special place both in music history and in fans’ hearts. They’re also the only band of that time to have survived Grunge and gone on to do their own thing, long past the glory days of that short-lived genre. [...]
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As with earlier 100best selections, The Clash need no introduction. I’d wager for many music fans – or just about anyone that relates to music for that matter – Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and one of the rollcall of drummers introduced them to punk whether they knew it or not, whether they then [...]
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