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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: The Mountain Goats

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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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    Viagra Boys: Welfare Jazz

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    Jordana: Something to Say to You

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    Various Artists: Pop Ambient 2021

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    Mary Timony: Mountains (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition)

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    Viagra Boys: Welfare Jazz

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    Fleeting Joys: Despondent Transponder

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    Bicep: Isles

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    Dale Crover: Rat-A-Tat-Tat!

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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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    Revisit: Harry Nilsson: Pussy Cats

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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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    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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    Born a Champion

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    Wrong Turn

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    Our Friend

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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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    Rediscover: Marathon

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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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    Losing the Atmosphere: by Vivian Conan

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    Piranesi: by Susanna Clarke

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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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    Piranesi: by Susanna Clarke

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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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    Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2015

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    Five Years Later: The Best Music of 2014

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    Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2013!!

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    Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2015!!

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

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    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs of the ’90s

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    Top 20 Albums of 2020

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Welcome to PLAYLIST. The idea is simple enough: make a playlist (with mix tapes and CDs becoming so unfortunately passé) centered around one artist or band with a deep catalog, including only our favorite track from each album.

PLAYLIST: Belle & Sebastian

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 28, 2015
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist
Belle & Sebastian Playlist

A few years ago, Spectrum Culture debuted a new type of feature called PLAYLIST. The idea is simple enough: make a playlist (with mix tapes and CDs becoming so unfortunately passé) centered around one artist or band with a deep catalog. There is only one parameter, however. Our charge is to limit our playlist to just one song per album …

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PLAYLIST: Pink Floyd

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 4, 2014
in :  Music, Music Playlist
Pink Floyd

In 1994, the night before I took the SAT, my friends and I drove down to Veterans Stadium on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Pink Floyd was in town to promote The Division Bell, the band’s second studio album since mastermind Roger Waters split roughly a decade prior. To a 17-year-old boy, it didn’t matter that Waters was long gone, this …

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Playlist: Jack White

By Spectrum Culture Staff
August 20, 2014
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist

For this feature, we are tasked to pick the best song from each album in an artist or band’s discography. There can be only one winner. We are confident this is the best of the Jack White, album by album. We are proud to present PLAYLIST: Jack White. “Stop Breaking Down” from The White Stripes (1999) It may be perceived …

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PLAYLIST: The Kinks

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 10, 2013
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist

A long time has passed since Spectrum Culture published its PLAYLIST feature. No, we haven’t gone into hibernation. Instead, we’ve spent the past year buried in the Kinks discography, listening and (re-listening) to everything from the self-titled 1964 debut to Phobia, the band’s last gasp in 1993. That’s 30 years of music, folks! For this feature, we are tasked to …

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PLAYLIST: Jay-Z

By Spectrum Culture Staff
August 4, 2013
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist
jay-z

Welcome to PLAYLIST, a re-occurring feature where our staff creates a playlist (with mix tapes and CDs becoming so unfortunately passé) centered around one artist or band with a deep catalog. For each LP we choose one song and pick a writer to rhapsodize its virtue. This feature is especially challenging when facing the discography of Jay-Z. In a career …

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PLAYLIST: Depeche Mode

By Spectrum Culture Staff
March 31, 2013
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist

Our last entry was in July with the eccentric country collective Lambchop, so this time we went in a completely different direction and chose a true icon of electronica: Depeche Mode. Between the band’s massive commercial successes and equally innovative use of synthesizers in the world of pop music, choosing Depeche Mode’s most essential songs was no easy task. Once …

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PLAYLIST: David Bowie

By Spectrum Culture Staff
March 24, 2013
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist
David Bowie Playlist

  This time around we decided to pick the best of the legendary David Bowie. It wasn’t easy. Many of Bowie’s songs could easily be the best song. Classics such as “Ziggy Stardust” and “Station to Station” fought valiantly, but didn’t make the cut. So once again, we got together, butted heads and hashed out this list. We hope it …

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PLAYLIST: The Beatles

By Spectrum Culture Staff
November 20, 2012
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist

This year, the Beatles’ catalog will appear on remastered 180-gram vinyl, making their stereo vinyl debut on November 13th. It’s hard to believe that the Beatles’ earliest recordings are soldiering on towards their 50th birthday. The songs remain viable, powerful and exciting today. I am also proud to welcome you back to a series titled PLAYLIST. The idea is simple …

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PLAYLIST: The Cure

By Spectrum Culture Staff
October 14, 2012
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Playlist, Recommended

“Fire in Cairo” from Three Imaginary Boys (1979) No, “Fire in Cairo” is not a political song, though its explosive refrain of “F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O” is received like the rallying cry of an enraptured true believer, shouted from the platform of a falling statue. Instead, this track, featured on the Cure’s 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys and again on the 1980 U.S. …

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PLAYLIST: The Mountain Goats

By Spectrum Culture Staff
October 3, 2012
in :  Music, Music Playlist

Welcome to PLAYLIST, a reoccurring feature on Spectrum Culture where our staff creates a playlist (with mix tapes and CDs becoming so unfortunately passé) centered around one artist or band with a deep catalog. For each LP we choose one song and pick a writer to rhapsodize its virtue. This feature is an especially challenging endeavor when facing the dense …

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