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Fergie - #19

More than any other hip-hop group, Run-D.M.C. are responsible for the sound and style of the music. As the first hardcore rap outfit, the trio set the sound and style for the next decade of rap. With their spare beats and excursions into heavy metal samples, the trio were tougher and more menacing than their [...]

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Guns N Roses – Chinese Democracy
“Grunge. Techno. Boy bands. Both President Bushes. These are just a few of the things Guns N’ Roses has improbably outlasted in the 17 (!) years since its last album of original music. Almost ever since, lone original member Axl Rose has [...]

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Trace Adkins - X
“There’s a reason Trace Adkins is still alive and well on his 10th album: he is the sincere, God-fearing, pickup truck-driving, sometime-screwup everyman that his songs appeal to. Not known as a songwriter, Adkins has an innate ability to make a song his own, [...]

Julianne Hough - #20

After Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson was the most popular male country singer of the ’90s. An heir to the new traditionalist movement of the ’80s, Jackson’s approach was rooted in classic honky tonk yet remained comfortably within the contemporary mainstream. Jackson’s hallmark was consistency — he wrote many of his own hits, and his way [...]

Product Information, Audio Previews, Reviews and More On: Paul Van Dyk - Hands On In Between
“If a track that didn’t make too much noise in the first place gets remixed, does anyone hear it drop? Paul van Dyk seems to be in that trance—no pun intended—into which European DJs who are massive all [...]

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The Fireman - Electric Arguments
“Paul McCartney and producer Youth have now long been identified as the brains behind once-anonymous electronica duo the Fireman, but even if they hadn’t, the project’s third release would be an instant giveaway, as it’s the first Fireman album to include McCartney’s vocals. [...]

Here’s the Schedule:
Friday December 5th - Disc 1 - Hip-Hop / Rap / R&B
Friday December 12th - Disc 2 - Rock
Friday December 19th - Disc 3 - Country
Friday December 26th - Disc 4 - Pop / Mainstream
Also the December MIx of the Month will be out sometime in early December.
Stay Tuned for more details!
Keep Bangin,
Willis

Ashlee Simpson - #21

Teen dance-pop singer Mandy Moore was born in Nashua, NH, on April 10, 1984, but raised in Orlando, FL; determined to be an entertainer from the age of six onward, she was later known throughout the Orlando area as the “National Anthem Girl” for her regular performances of “The Star Spangled Banner” at local sporting [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S. readers.
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Willis

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Rivers Cuomo - Alone II: The Recordings
“For the second installment in this archival series, Rivers Cuomo culled a collection that he believes could be better than its predecessor, or at least more accessible. What “Alone II” actually amounts to is a roller-coaster ride of far away-sounding acoustic [...]