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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to conventional wisdom in the music business, black musicians do rap and soul, whites do rock 'n' roll. So what to make of a group like Follow for Now? Their dreadlocks and fade-style haircuts seem to come straight out of a Yo! MTV Raps video clip. So do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Down to Their Roots | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Ever since Living Colour broke through the color barrier four years ago and went on to pick up two consecutive Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performnce, growing numbers of young African-American musicians have begun jamming to a rock beat. Says Living Colour lead guitarist Vernon Reid: "Rock 'n' roll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Down to Their Roots | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

As in traditional rock, the guitar is the central instrument for these musicians, but their riffs resonate with blues and jazz, reggae and rap, and all the other rhythms of the black musical experience. "We didn't watch MTV and take a little of this and that because it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Down to Their Roots | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Presumably for self-aggrandizement's sake, Gutterboy describes itself as: Active, tough, indifferent, [and] sexy" on the cover of its second album, St. Stanislaus of East 7th. Alongside this character analysis is a photograph of the five musicians standing on a city street, all cloaked in Black army boots and...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Mere Imitation of the Stars | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

The British group, comprised of guitarist/songwriter Roland Orzabal and vocalist Curt Smith, was founded in the early 1980s when the musicians decided that the solutions to a lot of the problems in the world, including their own, could be corrected effectively with access to Primal Therapy. Calculating that such access...

Author: By Ganesh Ramatrishnan, | Title: Tears for Fears' Greatest Hits | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

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