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Ruthless games
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Ruthless games

Music |  Taylor Swift’s Red answers Toby Keith’s boisterous Hope on the Rocks

Meat Loaf (left) and Kid Rock
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Grand old rebels

Music |  Meat Loaf and Kid Rock are Republicans of a sort

HERE WE GO A CAROLING: Jewel, Stewart, Perri, and Thorn (from left)
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Christmas mix

Music |  Enough performers produced enough good songs to make a decent holiday music season

Black and white
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Black and white

Music |  The uplifting Fifty Shades 'soundtrack' is the opposite of the trashy Fifty Shades novels

Armstrong
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Growing pains

Music |  His behavior may not reflect it, but Billie Joe Armstrong’s music shows him maturing

David, on the right, with Bacharach (top); South (below)
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Lyric harmony

Music |  Hal David and Joe South were masters of the songwriting craft

One of the only photos of Dranes (above); Corcoran's book and CD
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Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

Music |  Remastered recordings of Arizona Dranes reveal a musical pioneer

Ry Cooder
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Left notes

Music |  With partisan rants, Ry Cooder sounds more like a propagandist than an artist

Sixto Rodriguez
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Second act

Music |  Documentary brings '70s folk singer Sixto Rodriguez and his music back into the spotlight

Phil's testament
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Phil's testament

Music |  Live performance in Ohio displays what makes celebrated Christian guitarist special

What about Bob?
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What about Bob?

Music |  Out of Many offers an impressive overview of reggae-minus the genre's biggest and most influential voice

Sounds of Stoker
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Sounds of Stoker

Music |  Nosferatu compellingly transmutes Dracula into music

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