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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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    Concert Review: Tool

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    Concert Review: Refused

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    Concert Review: The Mountain Goats

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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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    Discography: David Bowie: Hours

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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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    Holy Hell! In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country 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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    Steve Earle & the Dukes: J.T.

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    Your Old Droog: Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition

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

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    Motörhead: Ace of Spades (40th Anniversary)

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    AKHLYS: Melinoë

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    Various Artists: Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987

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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: 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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    Rediscover: Lords of the New Church: Killer Lords

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    Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

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    Criminally Underrated: The Counselor

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    Criminally Underrated: A Perfect World

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    Criminally Underrated: Maleficent

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    The Marksman

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    American Skin

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    The Reason I Jump

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    Redemption Day

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    Soul

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    Another Round

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    Gunda

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    76 Days

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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: 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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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Videodrome

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    Revisit: Amores Perros

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    Rediscover: Shadowlands

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    Revisit: The Prince of Tides

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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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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Deadcon

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    A Stranger Among Saints: by Jonathan Mack

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    Cuyahoga: by Pete Beatty

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    The Deviant’s War: by Eric Cervini

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    Owls of the Eastern Ice: by Jonathan C. Slaght

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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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    Owls of the Eastern Ice: by Jonathan C. Slaght

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    Predicting the Past: Edited and designed by Stephen Berkman

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    Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2015

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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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    Top 20 Albums of 2020

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Criminally Over/Underrated

In this feature our writers take down films they feel are wildly overpraised or defend films they feel have not received their due.

Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

By Jeffrey Davies
5 days ago
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Message in a Bottle almost exists in a different realm entirely—one on the precipice of a new millennium while still continually stuck in the age of ‘90s rom-coms.

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Criminally Underrated: The Counselor

By Dominic Griffin
November 4, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film
Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz in The Counselor

The blend of Cormac McCarthy’s cowboy navel-gazing and Ridley Scott’s insistence to play things both perfectly straight and absolutely absurd makes it stand out from the filmmaker’s storied and wildly inconsistent filmography.

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Criminally Underrated: A Perfect World

By Greg Vellante
October 14, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Some of the most delicate work Eastwood has ever done.

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Criminally Underrated: Maleficent

By A.C. Koch
September 23, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Maleficent is the quintessential strong female lead who doesn't need to adopt traditionally masculine qualities to defeat the men arrayed against her.

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Criminally Underrated: Too Late

By Dominic Griffin
September 2, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Remains the greatest entry in the strange milieu of Tarantino knock-off cinema, despite being all but written off at the time of its release.

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Criminally Underrated: Mirror Mirror

By Jeffrey Davies
August 19, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Roberts’ layered, campy performance of the Evil Queen, as well as the reflection in her magic mirror, is in itself a work of art.

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Criminally Underrated: The Girl Next Door

By Joel Copling
June 10, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Deserves another look as a forgotten masterpiece of 2000s-era sex comedies.

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Criminally Underrated: Uptown Girls

By Jeffrey Davies
May 6, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film
Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning in Uptown Girls

Uptown Girls is not only supposed to be about learning to act your age but also of the dangers of growing up too soon.

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Criminally Underrated: 13 Going on 30

By Mike McClelland
March 25, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Hopefully, by the time the film itself is “30, flirty, and thriving!” it will get the respect it deserves.

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Criminally Underrated: The Fate of the Furious

By Jeff Heinzl
February 12, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film
Charlize Theron and Vin Diesel in The Fate of the Furious

The Fate of the Furious challenges us to consider the tangibly individual scale next to the globally catastrophic.

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