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    Interview: Nonagon

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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: 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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    Oeuvre: Fellini: The White Sheik

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Year by Year: Worst Summer Movies (2005-2012)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
July 18, 2013
in :  Lists, Year by Year

2005: Fantastic Four (Dir. Tim Story) Fantastic Four doesn’t start off any worse than most blockbusters. A space journey goes wrong and four scientists are transformed into superhumans. This magnification of human character is good idea done better in other comic book adaptations like Swamp Thing. But at least half this quartet is utterly forgettable—Ioan Gruffud’s Reed Richards is less …

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Year by Year: Worst Summer Movies (1995-2004)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
June 6, 2013
in :  Lists, Year by Year

1995: Congo (Dir. Frank Marshall) Undoubtedly emboldened by the smash success of Jurassic Park (1993) and the lesser but still sizable box office takes of Rising Sun (1993) and Disclosure (1994), the Hollywood powers in the mid-‘90s were absolutely certain that anything that spawned from the writing desk of Michael Crichton was just waiting to be pressed into cinematic gold. …

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Year by Year: Worst Summer Movies (1985-1994)

By Spectrum Culture Staff
May 16, 2013
in :  Lists, Year by Year

Summer at the box office is the season of promise, a time when loud trailers proudly herald the latest special effects bonanza. This year is no different than the others: the Enterprise will fly again, Brad Pitt will fight zombies, the Wolfpack is back and that’s not even mentioning the slew of superhero movies the studios are asking us to …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 2000s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
February 19, 2013
in :  Features, Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1990s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 29, 2013
in :  Features, Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1980s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 15, 2013
in :  Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1970s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 8, 2013
in :  Features, Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1960s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
November 27, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1950s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
November 13, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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Year by Year: Best Comedic Performances: 1940s

By Spectrum Culture Staff
October 23, 2012
in :  Features, Film, Year by Year

Who are your favorite comedic actors? Think throughout the history of film. Chaplin? Keaton? Hepburn? What about more recent performers? Will Adam Sandler, Jack Black and Tina Fey live on and be remembered with the greats? Only time will tell. Comedy is a slippery thing. What one person finds comic, another will not even crack a smile. Only a few …

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