January 27, 2021
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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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    Concert Review: Tove Lo/Broods/Alma

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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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    Psycho Goreman

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    Wrong Turn

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    Our Friend

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    Psycho Goreman

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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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    A Stranger Among Saints: by Jonathan Mack

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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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Home Tag Archives: Arts & Crafts

Tag Archives: Arts & Crafts

The Darcys: Centerfold

By Darryl G. Wright
November 7, 2016
in :  Music, Music Reviews

These men with the rolled-up sleeves on their white blazers demand and earn your respect.

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Brendan Canning: Home Wrecking Years

By Jedd Beaudoin
August 16, 2016
in :  Music, Music Reviews

Sincere but not without flashes of playful humor.

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Dan Mangan + Blacksmith: Club Meds

By Darryl G. Wright
February 12, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

[xrr rating=3.5/5]Vancouver’s Dan Mangan moves on from his folk festival singer-songwriter roots on Club Meds, his latest album for Arts and Crafts. The last seven years of his career culminated in the critical acclaim of 2011’s Oh Fortune, but this time he puts down the acoustic guitar and folk-rock for something more intense and complicated. Blacksmith primarily consists of musicians …

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Timber Timbre: Hot Dreams

By Josh Goller
April 7, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Taylor Kirk’s voice can deftly sway between ephemeral beauty and impending doom; and as their frontman’s vocals go, so goes gothic-tinged Canadian folk-bluesmen Timber Timbre. Ever since the band’s 2009’s self-titled breakthrough—which followed two self-released records that hadn’t yet settled into a distinctive style—Timber Timbre has quietly cornered the market on creepy-cool, their foreboding sound conjuring swampy, macabre imagery …

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Kevin Drew: Darlings

By Kevin Korber
April 6, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews

[xrr rating=3.0/5]As co-leader of Broken Social Scene, Kevin Drew specialized in being the eye of a musical hurricane. Every BSS song seems haphazardly written on the fly, only anchored together by Drew’s vision and his sheer commitment to making that project work. It’s not surprising, then, that the group disbanded after Forgiveness Rock Record, where not even Drew’s willpower was …

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Trust: Joyland

By Josh Goller
March 4, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Sometimes a loss turns out to be a gain. Such is the case for Toronto’s darkwave outfit Trust—once a duo until shortly after their 2012 debut, when the act was reduced to a one-man show. The superlative Joyland arrives as the fruit of Robert Alfons’s labors alone, as former cohort Maya Postepski split to focus her considerable production prowess …

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