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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Sister Sledge: We Are Family

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Cowboy Junkies: ‘Cause Cheap Is How I Feel

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    Interview: Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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    Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    The Fall: Live at St Helen’s Technical College, ‘81

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    Revisit: Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances

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    Criminally Underrated: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

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    Cherry

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    The Swordsman

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    Body Brokers

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    The Swordsman

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    Nomadland

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    The Violent Heart

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: A History of Violence

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John L. Murphy

John L. Murphy

Medievalist turned humanities professor; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Review eagerly and eclectically in academic journals and for online media. Born and raised in Los Angeles where he just missed being a native of Ireland, where his complexion and he belong. He blogs at, logically, Blogtrotter (http://fionnchu.blogspot.com/)

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