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...weekend music extravaganza, I wanted to check out what was cool, what was selling at some of the local record shops. I usually go to some of the big chains whenever I make such visits, but I also stop in at some of the rootsier, more underground places. You have to listen to a lot to find out what's really going on. After all, if you went into a record store in Manhattan and asked what was cool, there a good chance they might hand you crappy stuff like 'N Sync, Brian McKnight and Eminem. Or they might give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 2 | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...form has the power to take worldly emotions and transform them into something sacred, something uplifting. Unfortunately, much of what passes for gospel today is too slick, too processed, too angelically artificial to tap into the essential emotions and sublime passions that are provoked by the genre's original, rootsier form. There's no salvation to be found in daintiness. If you want to baptize someone in the spirit, you've got to get your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: CISSY HOUSTON: MOTOWN WITH ANGELS' WINGS | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

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