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The 10 Best DJ Shadow Songs
This year has to be a hectic one for DJ Shadow. As much as his new album The Mountain Will Fall deserves recognition on its own terms, its Brainfeeder-compatible art-beat minimalism -- honed after an...
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The 10 Best Dolly Parton Songs
There aren’t many artists who have slayed a crowd 100 thousand strong at Glastonbury. Fewer, still, have turned around and delighted an audience a fraction of the size a year later at the Ryman for...
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The 10 Best Blink-182 Songs
Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge didn't invent pop-punk when they began softening the edges of a SoCal hardcore scene that had exploded in popularity during the first half of the '90s, but they did more...
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The 10 Best Alice In Chains Songs
Alice In Chains are widely revered by hard rock fans (and guitarists especially), though their critical standing is secretly kind of a wash. They weren't lambasted like Stone Temple Pilots, but they...
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The 10 Best Chairlift Songs
Chairlift's place within modern music was never easy to identify, partially because that place always seemed to be evolving. But one thing that was clear was how gorgeously and gracefully they existed...
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The 10 Best Paramore Songs
When the mainstream popularity of pop-punk and emo crested in the mid-'00s, Paramore emerged as one of the movement's leading lights. Fronted by Hayley Williams — a rainbow-haired,...
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The 10 Best Soundgarden Songs
**This piece originally ran in 2013, and engaged with topics central to Soundgarden's work, including depression, addiction, and suicide. At the time, these seemed to be issues of their past. We're...
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The 10 Best Linkin Park Songs
Last week, Linkin Park released One More Light, their seventh studio album, assuming you don't count their two -- yes, two -- remix albums. One More Light marked yet another sonic shift for a group...
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The 10 Best Allman Brothers Songs
As so many dads, among others, will tell you, the Allman Brothers' interpretations of blues, rock, country, R&B, and jazz were greatly their own, completely distinct from how an equally massive...
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The 10 Best Foo Fighters Songs
There’s a parallel universe out there where Dave Grohl doesn’t start the Foo Fighters in the wreckage of Nirvana’s unexpected and tragic conclusion. Instead, he takes up that offer to be Tom Petty’s...
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The 10 Best Queens Of The Stone Age Songs
It's been 20 years since Josh Homme breathed new life into the ashes of his old band, the seminal stoner metal outfit Kyuss, thereby conceiving Queens Of The Stone Age: one of the most successful,...
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The 10 Best Vince Staples Songs
Vincent Jamal Staples doesn't have to hide behind an MC name, middle name, or street name, at a time when most of his fellow rappers of the gangster tradition wouldn't be caught dead using their...
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The 10 Best Robert Plant Songs
Robert Plant was the frontman of Led Zeppelin. What the hell do you do after that? Sure, there are all sorts of reasons a lead singer, or another band member, goes solo, from ego to creative...
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The 10 Best Echo And The Bunnymen Songs
The Beatles didn't live there anymore. Liverpool at the end of the '70s was hardscrabble and hardly swinging, but from its post-punk bohemia came a music scene tye-dyed by psychedelia and other '60s...
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The 10 Best Cranberries Songs
The Cranberries were one of the alt-rock era's biggest successes. That's true in numerical terms: The Irish band's first two albums, 1993's Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? and 1994's No...
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The 10 Best War On Drugs Songs
Ten years ago this June, the War On Drugs released their debut album Wagonwheel Blues. At that point, nobody could’ve expected what would eventually happen for this project and its mastermind, a...
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The 10 Best Simple Minds Songs
There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the '80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the '70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given...
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The 10 Best Hot Chip Songs
For nearly 15 years now, Hot Chip have been releasing effervescent, wildly infectious synthpop albums like clockwork. Up until recently, you got a Hot Chip album every two years, and you could always...
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The 10 Best Smashing Pumpkins Songs
Throughout the long and tumultuous history of the Smashing Pumpkins, there's never really been a prolonged period of anything resembling tranquility. There's never been a moment where they could...
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