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List Inconsequential: Top Breakup Songs
Denial Side “Woke Up New” by the Mountain Goats No other song encapsulates the bitter end to a years-long cohabitation quite like “Woke Up New.” As Mountain Goats creator and frontman John Darnielle gently
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List Inconsequential: Football and the Movies
Varsity Blues (1999) James Van Der Beek as Jonathan Moxon wasn’t the least convincing actor to play a quarterback, but unarguably he’s still guilty of a terrible Southern accent (and a Texan one, at
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List Inconsequential: The Best Pizza in the USA
(Photo: Roger Jones) Gino’s East of Chicago- Chicago, IL On a road trip in 2004 to see Vic Chesnutt at the Old Town School of Folk Music – a performance in which Chesnutt managed
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List Inconsequential: If There is a Hell, This is the Soundtrack
“Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio (1995) When I learned of this week’s list topic, my mind immediately went to three songs off of soundtracks: “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, “I Will Always
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List Inconsequential: Best Musicians Turned Actors
James Taylor in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Okay, let’s be real: the performance from Monte Hellman’s ’70s anti-road movie that everyone remembers is not James Taylor as the affectless, unnamed driver, but Warren Oates as
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List Inconsequential: Beautiful Songs About Cities
“New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down” by LCD Soundsystem (2007) James Murphy, the brilliant sweatpants-clad schlub behind LCD Soundsystem, seemed an improbable frontman. But for 10 years, this producer and
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Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2006!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a film. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these movies play NOW!” Not
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Five Years Later: The Best Albums of 2006!!
Five years is an eternity in the life of a record. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these albums play NOW!” Not
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Best of 2011: Honorable Mentions
These excellent records fell just short of our Top 20 of 2011 list. The Antlers- Burst Apart [Frenchkiss] I suspect I’m not the only one who slowly scrolled through this very site’s Top 20
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The Top 20 Albums of 2011
20. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life [Matador] The most ambitious band to vaguely fit under the description of “hardcore punk” since Refused dissolved, Toronto sextet Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this
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