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Coachella 2014: The inside story on Outkast
One of the major draws of this year's Coachella — and the whole of the upcoming festival season — is the return of the Atlanta hip-hop team Outkast. To a certain generation, the Grammy-winning, platinum-selling duo's hits, including "Ms. Jackson," "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move," helped define the late 1990s and '00s. Outkast, which headlines Coachella's opening night Friday, is one of America's great hip-hop exports. A smart, sonically curious Southern concern, the team reveled in pushing the boundaries of a genre that was trying to recover from the twin deaths of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. But the group went on...
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Coachella 2014: The inside story on Outkast
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Kate Bush to play first live dates since 1979
Kate Bush, the grande dame of English art-pop, is returning to the stage. It took her only 35 years to do it. Bush has announced that she's booked a long run of live dates at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The shows are slated to begin...
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From Strangers to You Really Got Me
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Album Review: Kate Bush's "50 Words for Snow" written by Margaret Wappler.
The music of L.A. quartet Warpaint is a little fractured, a little unfocused. "Undertow," the first single from the band's ridiculously anticipated debut album, "The Fool," echoes P.J. Harvey and Kate Bush, its blurry harmonies intersecting with ferocious guit
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