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    Bargain Bin Babylon: Sister Sledge: We Are Family

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

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Madvillainy

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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! 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: 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: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

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    Rediscover: Henry Cow: Western Culture

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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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    Oeuvre: Fellini: The White Sheik

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Two of Us

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Stalked By My Doctor: The Return

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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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