Upon 311's vigorous return, vocalist S.A. Martinez declares, "I'm on a new high with a pen and a pad, and for fun I attend a jam that's super bad." While the members of the...
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311 are the grizzled graybeards of alternative music. For nearly ten years their funkified, left-field take on the rap-metal zeitgeist has been soundtracking dormitory keg...
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A solid, energetic major-label debut produced by Eddie Offord, best known for his work with Yes and ELP in the prog-rock '70s. As on all of the band's releases, the lyrics...
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311's debut album, Music, is an infectious mix of funk metal and hip-hop. While the band fails to come up with a consistently solid batch of songs, their raw energy makes up...
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Just as Transistor was more relaxed and experimental in the wake of 311, Grassroots found the band stretching out in the wake of its Capricorn debut, but with less...
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A stylistic improvement over its predecessor, Grassroots presents a more focused and inventive 311, evenly balancing the band's rap-metal intensity with reggae vibrations,...
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This is the album that introduced 311 to the mainstream, and it was the first time that the group really captured the energy of its live shows on tape. Some fans say it...
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A stylistic improvement over its predecessor, Grassroots presents a more focused and inventive 311, evenly balancing the band's rap-metal intensity with reggae vibrations,...
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311's debut album, Music, is an infectious mix of funk metal and hip-hop. While the band fails to come up with a consistently solid batch of songs, their raw energy makes up...
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The success of "The Blue Album" allowed the band to stretch out on this follow-up, and 311 delivered a dense collection of groovier, spacier songs that displayed the...
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There's no doubt these guys can play their instruments and jam in any style that strikes their fancy. The playing is extremely dexterous. But
311 also call to mind another...
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311, the eclectic musical quintet whose unique and hypnotic blend of reggae, funk, hard rock and hip-hop reached a world audience with the success of their self-titled 1995...
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It is the seamless way the songs on the eponymously titled 311 combine the band's influences into a potent blend of rap, funk, and rock that renders this album a cut above...
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A lot has happened since 311 broke into the modern-rock mainstream in 1996 with their loopy funk-hop-metal hit "Down" and the self-titled multiplatinum album from...
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311 have been called a lot of things -- primarily some variation of either funk-metal, rap-metal, or ska-metal -- but they don't fit neatly into any of these particular...
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311 have been called a lot of things -- primarily some variation of either funk-metal, rap-metal, or ska-metal -- but they don't fit neatly into any of these particular...
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From the chunkheaded rap-rock beta tests "Down" and "All Mixed Up" through the blue-eyed make-out reggae of "Amber" and on to latter-day stuff like the underrated...
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It is the seamless way the songs on the eponymously titled 311 combine the band's influences into a potent blend of rap, funk, and rock that renders this album a cut above...
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