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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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Best Books of the Year
*Our best books list includes books debuting in both hardcover and softcover in 2011* Griftopia: Bubbles Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi (Spiegel & Grau) In
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Best Films of 2011
13 Assassins (Dir: Takeshi Miike, Toho Company/Magnet Releasing) Way out west, Takashi Miike is a symbol of Japanese perversion: that crazy director who made a movie about a girl with piano wire who keeps
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Top 25 Songs of 2011
25. St. Vincent – “Surgeon” [4AD] To know Annie Clark is to love her. The versatile songstress and musician has been making indie hearts melt since her time with the Polyphonic Spree, and her
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Best Performances of 2011
Brad Pitt in Tree of Life and Moneyball Brad Pitt has done plenty to chip away at his pretty boy image in the past, but the actor truly shines in two career-defining roles this
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Best Albums of 2011 (So Far): You Ain’t Livin’ Until You Hear These
The year is more than half over with the big push of fall releases to come. But before we get mired down in year-end lists, have you heard all the vital 2011 releases? Some
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Honorable Mentions 2010
Let’s start the year by looking back. Here are our favorite albums that didn’t make Spectrum Culture’s Top 20 of 2010. Each of us is happy to present a record that deserves more attention
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Top 20 Albums of 2010
It has been a great year for music. This Top 20 list reflects the tastes of all the music writers here at Spectrum Culture. We appreciate your support this year and look forward to
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Best Films of 2010
I don’t how other critics do it- make definitive top 10 lists of a year. We’re halfway through December and I cannot claim I’ve seen nearly all the 2010 movies I had hoped to
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