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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! Suburban Light 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: 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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    Resequence: Prince: 1999

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    Rediscover: Henry Cow: Western Culture

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

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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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    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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    Oeuvre: Fellini: The White Sheik

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Maps to the Stars

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Home Tag Archives: Kanye West

Tag Archives: Kanye West

Sunday Service Choir: Jesus Is Born

By Daniel Bromfield
January 5, 2020
in :  Music, Music Reviews

While the lack of West’s voice on Jesus is Born is refreshing, the lack of his fingerprints is disappointing.

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Kanye West: Jesus is King

By Daniel Bromfield
October 27, 2019
in :  Music, Music Reviews

At least Kanye’s given us something more interesting to talk about than himself.

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Kanye West/Kid Cudi: Kids See Ghosts

By Dylan Montanari
June 21, 2018
in :  Music, Music Reviews

No one may be more responsible for introducing a dark mood to mainstream hip-hop than Kanye West and Kid Cudi.

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Top 20 Albums of 2016

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 22, 2016
in :  Lists, Year End Lists

These are the 20 best albums of the year.

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Top 25 Songs of 2016

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 20, 2016
in :  Lists, Year End Lists

Our Top 25 Songs of 2016.

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Kanye West: The Life of Pablo

By Kevin Korber
February 17, 2016
in :  Music, Music Reviews

The Life of Pablo doesn’t ask us to reconsider Kanye the artist in the wake of Kanye the person.

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Five Years Later: The Best Albums of 2010!!

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 3, 2016
in :  Five Years Later, Lists

Five years is an eternity in the life of a record.

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Top 25 Songs of 2013

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 17, 2013
in :  Lists, Year End Lists

25. Janelle Monáe – “Dance Apocalyptic” [Bad Boy/Wondaland] On her stellar sophomore album, The Electric Lady, Janelle Monáe calls in the musical royalty. The likes of Prince, Miguel, Solange, Esperanza Spalding and Erykah Badu lend their talents to an album that’s a start to finish listen and a triumphant breakthrough for Monáe—nowadays it’s difficult to buy a cup of coffee …

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Monthly Mixtape: September 2013

By Spectrum Culture Staff
September 26, 2013
in :  Lists, Monthly Mixtapes

1. Janelle Monáe – “Dance Apocalyptic” (Bad Boy/Wondaland) “Dance Apocalyptic,” the second single from Janelle Monáe’s The Electric Lady, has been kicking around for a couple months now, but hearing it in the context of the full-length release makes its soaring pop and beautifully repurposed future-funk sound even better. That’s in part because it’s one of the first tracks that …

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Monthly Mixtape: August 2013

By Spectrum Culture Staff
August 29, 2013
in :  Lists, Monthly Mixtapes

1. Kanye West – “Black Skinhead” (Def Jam) “Kanyeezy you did it again, you a genius nigga!” Pushing harder and dirtier on Yeezus, West has created a song that can finally relieve “Rock and Roll” at the arena, one worthy of jumbotronic stadium sound. “I keep it 300, like the Romans;” indeed. 2. Pond – “Xanman” (Modular People) Pond’s shambling, …

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