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Let's face it: We've all been at some party where the conversation drifts to a topic you kinda sorta don't know anything about. You nod along, silently sipping your drink, hoping your pals don't call...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Riot Grrrl
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Tour Riders
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Jay Z
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
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How To Be Smarter About... Brian Lehrer's Home Audio
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Van Morrison's 'Astral Weeks'
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... New Age Music
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Counterpoint
Let's face it: as much as we all know and love about music, everyone has at least some blind spots. In our new series, "How To Be Smarter About…" Soundcheck aims to help you become a more impressive...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Kate Bush
English singer-songwriter Kate Bush began her career in the mid-1970's, quickly topping the U.K. charts with her debut single “Wuthering Heights.” But since her first tour in 1979, Bush has shied away...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson has achieved legendary status in American culture. But that doesn’t quite exempt him from being in some music fans’ blind spots. Nelson might be best known for penning and performing “On...
View ArticleClark Terry: A Trumpeter Who's So Much More Than 'Mumbles'
To those outside the jazz world, Clark Terry is perhaps not as recognizable a name as Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie, but his musical influence is no less important. Terry, or "C.T." as he's often...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... Aphex Twin
Recently, Aphex Twin, a.k.a. the experimental English musician Richard James, announced his first album in 13 years, Syro. But this wasn't any old album announcement: Aphex Twin broke the news with a...
View ArticleHow To Be Smarter About... DJ Mustard
If you listen to any pop or mainstream rap radio, odds are you will recognize an iconic tag from the beginning of dozens of songs.But if you never understood exactly what he was saying, you're not...
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