To fully grasp the band Soul Coughing and their debut album, Ruby Vroom, whose mix of hip-hop beats, samples, jazz, and rock sounded wildly fresh in the early days of “alternative music,” it helps to ...

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On the long-awaited follow-up to their 2012 debut, techno sorcerers Donato Dozzy and Neel return to a rich, subtly evolving ...

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Guitarist, producer, and songwriter Steve Cropper, who shaped the sound of Memphis soul as a member of the Stax Records house ...

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