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Monthly Mixtape: January 2013
CLICK BELOW TO HEAR THE SONGS ON OUR JANUARY PLAYLIST! David Bowie — “Where Are We Now?” (Iso/Columbia) This month, David Bowie proved he could still surprise us when he abruptly announced the release
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List Inconsequential: Indie Songs for Kids
Side A Chromeo – “Nice N Clean” To be honest, I had a pretty awesome childhood. Thanks, Mom and Dad. Now approaching 30, I look back and ponder the two things that really would
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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1980s
Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with
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List Inconsequential: Things We’re Excited About in 2013!
The Great Gatsby (Dir: Baz Luhrmann) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest novels ever written. That’s not even an opinion, that’s a fact by the consensus of close to
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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1970s
Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with
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Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2007!!
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 2007!!
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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Top 20 Albums of 2012
20. Cat Power Sun [Matador] Cat Power’s ninth studio album is filled with unexpected studio flourishes—overdubs, synthesizers, electronic beats—and yet retains all the lyric edge and raw, minor-key emotion that distinguish the best of
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Best Films of 2012
The Cabin in the Woods (Dir: Drew Goddard, Lionsgate Films) Alternately hilarious and cruel, Cabin in the Woods is the kid-tested, nihilist-approved antidote to every rotten, boring, soulless, by-the-numbers horror flick to clog up
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Top 25 Songs of 2012
25) M.I.A. – “Bad Girls” [Interscope] Originally released by M.I.A. as a 2:13 worldbeat experiment on 2010’s Vicki Leekx mixtape, the extended edit of “Bad Girls” blends the jovial tenacity of the younger performer
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