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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Henry “Buzz” Glass: Square Dance Variations Volume I

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    Concert Review: Tool

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    Interview: Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil

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    James Yorkston & The Secondhand Orchestra: The Wide, Wide River

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Two of Us

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Chaz Kangas is a walking Wikipedia, a World Record-holding rap artist and proud writer for Spectrum Culture. When he's not captivating audiences with his critically acclaimed approach to Hip-Hop, he's covering music, film and pop culture's highbrow and low-brow, putting them together for an entertaining unibrow and bringing them to your computer with a smile. He's guest-lectured at Fairfield University and has written for the New York Times, Complex and LA Weekly. He'll also freestyle for you about anything at the drop of a dime, with it yet to be determined what he'll do for a quarter.

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