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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Earth, Wind & Fire: All ‘n All

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

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Robert Cray: Strong Persuader

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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Lemon Jelly: Lost Horizons

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    Discography: David Bowie: Blackstar

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    Discography: David Bowie: The Next Day

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    Discography: David Bowie: Reality

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    Discography: David Bowie: Heathen

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    Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! The Last Match Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! NYC Ghosts & Flowers Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! The Moon & Antarctica Turns 20

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    Interview: Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil

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    Interview: Janette King

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    Interview: Joseph D’Agostino of Empty Country

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    Interview: Anna Burch

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    Buck Meek: Two Saviors

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    Azure Ray: Azure Ray (20th Anniversary)

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    Various Artists: Gritty, Odd & Good: Weird Pseudo-Music from Unlikely Sources

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    Playboi Carti: Whole Lotta Red

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    Playboi Carti: Whole Lotta Red

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    Joan of Arc: Tim Melina Theo Bobby

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    Dave Alvin: From an Old Guitar – Rare and Unreleased Recordings

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    Motörhead: Ace of Spades (40th Anniversary)

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    Resequence: Childish Gambino: 3.15.20

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    Resequence: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Resequence: Chance the Rapper: The Big Day

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    Rediscover: The Caretaker: Everywhere at the End of Time

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    Rediscover: Low Cut Connie: Get Out the Lotion

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    Rediscover: Andrew White: Passion Flower

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    Rediscover: The For Carnation: The For Carnation

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    Film About a Father Who

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    Another Round

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    Holy Hell! In the Mood for Love Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Nurse Betty Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Shadow of the Vampire Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Rules of Engagement Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Naked Lunch

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Dead Ringers

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: The Fly

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: The Dead Zone

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    Revisit: The Great Escape

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    Revisit: Amores Perros

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    Revisit: W

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    Rediscover: Shadowlands

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Two of Us

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Death House

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Santa Jaws

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Stalked By My Doctor: The Return

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    October Child: by Linda Boström Knausgård (Trans. by Saskia Vogel)

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    Kings County: by David Goodwillie

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    The Last Million: by David Nasaw

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    A Stranger Among Saints: by Jonathan Mack

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    October Child: by Linda Boström Knausgård (Trans. by Saskia Vogel)

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    The Last Million: by David Nasaw

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    A Stranger Among Saints: by Jonathan Mack

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    The Deviant’s War: by Eric Cervini

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    Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2013!!

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    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs of the ’00s

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Peep Show: by Joshua Braff

By Lauren Westerfield
March 28, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

Peep Show by Joshua Braff Rating: 3.0/5.0 Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill The inner workings of Hasidic Judaism and the evolution of modern porn make for an unlikely cultural juxtaposition; yet it is through the exploration of their inevitable clashes and unexpected commonalities that Joshua Braff approaches his compelling and occasionally surprising new coming-of-age story. Peep Show, Braff’s sophomore novel …

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Debut: Truman Capote: Other Voices, Other Rooms

By Nathan Kamal
March 20, 2010
in :  Books

Debut novels are funny things. There’s a whole gamut of strange drives behind them, from the overwhelming ambition and hunger for fame of some authors, to the necessity to exorcise private demons in a public kind of way, to the need to climb past the shoulders of whatever early influences still cling. For Truman Capote, it seems only the former …

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(Don’t) Revisit: The Mothman Prophecies

By Marcus David
March 13, 2010
in :  Books

(Don’t) Revisit: The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel 1975 Thirty five years after its UFO-packed pages first beamed their way onto bookshelves worldwide, John Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies remains a sacred cow in the world of metaphysical nonfiction – even if smarmy naysayers will discount the entire genre as an oxymoron. In terms of premises, few books of the past …

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Under What Stars by Ryan J. Davidson

By Chris Middleman
March 6, 2010
in :  Books, Recommended Books, Reviews

Under What Stars by Ryan J. Davidson Rating: 4.0/5.0 Ampersand Books Ryan J. Davidson’s first collection of poetry, Under What Stars, starts out ballsy- a Kerouac quote precedes the first poem, acting as a sort of benediction upon the proceedings. “My beloved,” Saint Jack says, “who wills not to love me: My Life which cannot love me: I seduce both.” …

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Rock On: An Office Power Ballad: by Dan Kennedy

By Eric Dennis
February 27, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy Rating: 2.0/5.0 Algonquin Books Much of Dan Kennedy’s Rock On: An Office Power Ballad is as tedious and ennui-inducing as the mainstream music acts and corporate culture he lampoons throughout the book. Based on the writer’s experiences as an Atlantic Records employee during that label’s clusterfuck 2000s, Kennedy certainly had plenty …

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Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah – A New Biography: by Tim Footman

By Jesse Cataldo
February 21, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah – A New Biography by Tim Footman Rating: 3.0/5.0 Chrome Dreams Why does it feel like books on musicians are so insistently amateurish? Authors get stately, insightful tributes handled with gravity and professionalism. Musicians, it seems, are usually stuck with dashed-off, over-dramatic, under-researched tributes, lying like hidden traps to snatch up hungry fans. Hallelujah, the 11th bio …

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R.I.P.: Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

By Jessica Bari
February 6, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

When I turned 18, the summer before going off to college, my dad gave me a book titled A People’s History of the United States: 1942-Present. Inside, he had inscribed: “Official Histories are always written from the point of view of the winner–this one isn’t.” I didn’t think much of it at the time, and I certainly didn’t read it …

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R.I.P.: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)

By Lukas Sherman
January 30, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where i was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to …

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Revisit: Couples: by John Updike

By Jesse Cataldo
January 23, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

Revisit: Couples by John Updike Ballantine Books 1968 Revisit is a series of reviews highlighting past releases that now deserve a second look. “It’s sex that disorders our normally ordered lives,” Philip Roth writes in The Dying Animal. Most of John Updike’s characters, his bored women and permanently restless men, are familiar with this concept, but their sexual transgressions read …

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Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep On Buying No Matter What: by Lee Eisenberg

By Jesse Cataldo
January 18, 2010
in :  Books, Reviews

Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep On Buying No Matter What by Lee Eisenberg Rating: 2.5/5.0 Free Press Whether we are buying toothpaste at the grocery store, throwing down an entire paycheck on a designer handbag or ordering eco-friendly hemp clothing online, shopping is an integral component of life in America–recession or not. Moreover, companies are constantly marketing to …

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