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  Tom Petty Delivers Schizophrenic, Rousing Fillmore Show | ARTICLE

  The Fillmore, San Francisco, March 8, 1999 For his second sold-out night in a seven-night stand at the legendary Fillmore (a limited engagement compared to his twenty-night stint in 1997), Tom Petty kept his stage patter to a...

  March 12, 1999 12:00 AM ET
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  The OutSpoken | ARTICLE

  The hip-hop community can thank OutKast for doing their part in bolstering the format's sales over any other musical genre in the country. The Atlanta-rooted duo of Dre and Big Boi have churned out three platinum-selling albums, including the latest,...

  February 19, 1999 12:00 AM ET
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  Jim Carroll Can't Escape Rock & Roll | ARTICLE

  Nevermind that his most famous literary body of work, The Basketball Diaries, was penned between the ages of twelve and sixteen. Jim Carroll, now 48, is at a prolific peak. His new book of poems, Void of Course, mixes his...

  January 9, 1999 12:00 AM ET
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  James Brown Speaks from the Soul | ARTICLE

  The Godfather of Soul, Mr. Dynamite, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, James Brown is the personification of the rags-to-riches fairy tale, with a lot of hard times in between. |Raised in poverty in Augusta, Ga.,...

  November 5, 1998 12:00 AM ET
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  Warped and Waiting | ARTICLE

  The smash success of Rancid's "Time Bomb," a track off the band's '95 album... And Out Come the Wolves, can be pegged as the catalyst that ignitedmainstream interest in both ska and punk -- not to mention...

  July 23, 1998 12:00 AM ET
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  Q&A: Lou Reed | ARTICLE

  More than thirty years after Lou Reed struck his first detached chord with the monstrously influential Velvet Underground, the New York born and bred singer/songwriter is still entrenched in the art of experimentation. Back in the Velvet's late-Sixties heyday, Reed wrote...

  April 29, 1998 12:00 AM ET