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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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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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    Jimbo Mathus/Andrew Bird: These 13

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    Django Django: Glowing in the Dark

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    Various Artists: Tchic Tchic: French Bossa Nova 1963-1974

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    Chet Baker: (Chet Baker Sings) It Could Happen to You/Chet Baker in New York/Chet/Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

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    Jimbo Mathus/Andrew Bird: These 13

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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    Black Sabbath: Vol. 4 (Super Deluxe Edition)

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    Melvins: Working with God

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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: Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star

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    Revisit: Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances

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    Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

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    Coming 2 America

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    Night of the Kings

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    The Father

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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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    Holy Hell! The Wedding Planner Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Eastern Promises

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    From the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Two of Us

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    Telephone: by Percival Everett

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    Children of Ash and Elm: by Neil Price

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Home Tag Archives: Beck

Tag Archives: Beck

Holy Hell: Midnite Vultures Turns 20

By Zachary Hoskins
February 13, 2019
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

The parts of Midnite Vultures that hold up best today are the ones that feel more like organic extensions of Beck’s style and less like, well, culture vulture-ing.

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Holy Hell! Mutations Turns 20

By Josh Goller
August 29, 2018
in :  Holy Hell, Music, Music Features

In 1998, Mutations may have been Beck’s most cohesive album to date, but it was also his most nuanced and polished.

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Beck: Colors

By Holly Hazelwood
October 12, 2017
in :  Music, Music Reviews

Nearly every song finds Beck writing shallow and meaningless lyrics.

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List Inconsequential: A 1990s Vinyl Wishlist

By Eric Dennis
May 8, 2014
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

Every vinyl collector loves the thrill of the hunt: that burst of adrenaline and that lustful feeling that accompanies a hard-earned acquisition tell the collector he’s – in very rare and very weird cases, she’s – alive. Yet few things are more depressing to a collector than the unfulfilled wishlist, no matter how much he tries to keep it at …

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List Inconsequential: We Love Beck!

By Spectrum Culture Staff
April 3, 2014
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

I had a waffle in my purse this morning and it kind of felt like a Beck lyric come to life. Yep, he’s back, and with a new album to boot. The release of Morning Phase has inspired some of the Spectrum Culture staff to revisit his back catalog and reminisce on some of our favorite tracks. From wacky to …

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Beck: Morning Phase

By Josh Goller
February 27, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews

[xrr rating=2.75/5]If 2012’s sheet music “album” Song Reader was any indication, at this stage in his career Beck can do pretty much anything he wants. Over the past few years, he’s also been scattering standalone singles, some of which were rumored to have been culled from an unfinished project that would’ve been in the vein of his classic, Odelay. He’s …

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Monthly Mixtape: July 2013

By Spectrum Culture Staff
July 30, 2013
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists

David Lynch & Lykke Li – “I’m Waiting Here” (Sacred Bones) David Lynch has always had a thing for mysterious, alluring women. His film work has long reflected this, but lately so has his music. His second album, The Big Dream, takes a page from his first in aligning Lynch with an enchanting and established female vocalist for one of …

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Song Reader: by Beck

By Rodger Coleman
February 5, 2013
in :  Books, Recommended, Recommended Books, Reviews

[xrr rating=5.0/5]When it was announced last summer that Beck’s new album would not be a recording at all but rather a collection of sheet music, industry wag Bob Lefsetz called it “a publicity stunt,” flatly stating that Beck was “unable to sell an album, people [are] no longer interested in what he has to say musically.” According to Lefsetz, Beck …

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Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stage Whisper

By Kyle Fowle
December 12, 2011
in :  Music, Music Reviews

[xrr rating=3.0/5]Despite being out of the public eye for some time (at least when it came to music), Charlotte Gainsbourg’s LP IRM (released in late 2009 across most of Europe and in early 2010 in the U.S.) instantly established her as a unique and accomplished voice in the indie universe who was ready to take on the overbearing shadow of …

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