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Lenny Kravitz, Singer-songwriter "Lookin Through the Windows" This song is complex, the chord changes are beautiful, the range in which Michael sings on that track is phenomenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Favorite Songs | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

...argue that our collective reluctance to demonize or abandon MJ at the height of his troubles was rooted in our inability to confront issues like child abuse and gender identity. But our loyalty stems from something else. First, his talent. Second, the arc of his biography struck a chord: his persistent struggle for respect and redemption - the comeback attempts, the efforts to surmount his recurring financial crises - mirrored the battles that many of us endure daily, albeit in a smaller scale. Even the question of his pigmentation became a metaphor for the black experience in America: he was not comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson and the Black Experience | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

...lefty folk community embraced Dylan even as he quickly surpassed Guthrie, writing his own music to go with his brilliant lyrics to protest the atrocities of the 1960s, songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." But four-chord, straight-ahead folk music proved, well, boring after a while, and Dylan betrayed the folk pedants by going electric--"Judas!" they cried in England--and the ideology-encrusted hard-liner Pete Seeger tried to pull the plug on Dylan's breakthrough performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan: Time For One More Change? | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...public views them as ineffectual and anonymous, and turnout at the upcoming elections is expected to be a record low. By standing up for beautiful baby seals - and backing a cause championed by the likes of Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson - MEPs perhaps thought they could strike a chord with jaded voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada Battles the E.U. Over Baby Seals | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...interaction between his background in teen pop and the backgrounds of his new bandmates.There is no doubt, then, that Tinted Windows makes for an intriguing prospect. But the actual product has little in common with the past achievements of the bandmembers. Tinted Windows is 36 minutes of three-chord power-pop, and one is hard-pressed to find any connection to the textural diversity of “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness,” Smashing Pumpkins’ 1995 masterwork, or to the sheer energy of Cheap Trick’s “Heaven Tonight...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tinted Windows | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

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