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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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    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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    Concert Review: Tool

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    Concert Review: Refused

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    Concert Review: The Mountain Goats

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    Concert Review: Tove Lo/Broods/Alma

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    Discography: MF Doom: Viktor Vaughn: Venomous Villain (VV:2)

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Madvillainy

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Vaudeville Villain

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    Discography: MF Doom: King Geedorah: Take Me to Your Leader

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    Holy Hell! Flowers Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Suburban Light Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Free All Angels Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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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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    Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra: Promises

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    Benny the Butcher and Harry Fraud: The Plugs I Met 2

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    Carrie Underwood: My Savior

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    Orions Belte: Villa Amorini

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    Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra: Promises

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    Allen Ginsberg: At Reed College: The First Recorded Reading of Howl and Other Poems

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    Laurie Anderson: Big Science (Reissue)

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    The Armadillo Paradox: Out of Gas in Oil Country

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    Resequence: JPEGMAFIA: Veteran

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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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    Rediscover: Henry Cow: Western Culture

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    Revisit: St. Vincent: Marry Me

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    Rediscover: AFI: Sing the Sorrow

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    Rediscover: Johnny Gill: Johnny Gill

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    Criminally Underrated: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

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    Criminally Underrated: Spider-Man 3

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    Criminally Underrated: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

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    Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

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    Voyagers

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    Shiva Baby

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    Space Dogs: Tropical Adventure

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    Assault on VA-33

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    Night of the Kings

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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    The Swordsman

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    Nomadland

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    Holy Hell! Bridget Jones’s Diary Turns 20

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Miss Tulip Stays the Night

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    Holy Hell! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Ghost World Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: Fellini: The White Sheik

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    Oeuvre: Fellini: Variety Lights

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Maps to the Stars

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Cosmopolis

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    Revisit: Bubba Ho-Tep

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    Rediscover: Toni

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    Revisit: Mouse Hunt

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    Rediscover: SPL2: A Time for Consequences

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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

  • Books
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    Dearly: by Margaret Atwood

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    Tapestry: by Loren Glass

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    Redbone: by Christian Staebler, Sonia Paoloni; illustrated by Thibault Balahy

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    Two Truths and a Lie: by Ellen McGarrahan

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    Tapestry: by Loren Glass

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    Two Truths and a Lie: by Ellen McGarrahan

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    Mike Nichols: by Mark Harris

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    Vinyl Age: by Max Brzezinski

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    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs of the ’10s and Beyond

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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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    Top 20 Albums of 2020

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    The 25 Best Songs of 2020

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Thundercat’s endless charm holds Drunk together.

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Marked by references to time and its passage, the impermanence of emotional bonds and places.

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There’s a good reason why Wussy have maintained a passionate cult following.

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Rainbow Ends is a note-perfect coda to Rhodes' career.

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Kamasi Washington: The Epic

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Dense and inherently socially conscious, Kamasi Washington’s music requires a great deal of time and effort to fully process.

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Shamir: Ratchet

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Shamir effortlessly believes in himself in a way that marks him as far wiser than most on the pop scene today.

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