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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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    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: MF Doom: Special Herbs

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Operation: Doomsday

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    Discography: MF DOOM: Bl_ck B_st_rds

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    Discography: MF Doom: KMD: Mr. Hood

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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Bath Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Fixed:: Context Turns 20

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    Interview: Nonagon

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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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    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-review

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    Buzzcocks: Late for the Train – Live & in Session 1989-2016

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    Mexican Institute of Sound: Distrito Federal

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    A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Invisible Cities

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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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    Julien Baker: Little Oblivions

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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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    Rediscover: Todd Rundgren: A Wizard, A True Star

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    Revisit: Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances

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    Revisit: Amy Grant: Heart in Motion

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    Rediscover: Lisa Germano: Geek the Girl

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    Criminally Underrated: Spider-Man 3

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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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    Criminally Underrated: The Counselor

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    Night of the Kings

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    Crisis

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    The Father

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    Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry

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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! The Wedding Planner Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! A.I. Artificial Intelligence turns 20

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    Holy Hell! What Time Is It There? Turns 20

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    Holy Hell! Monsters Inc. Turns 20

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: A History of Violence

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Spider

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: eXistenZ

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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: Crash

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    Rediscover: Town Bloody Hall

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    Revisit: Postcards from the Edge

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    Rediscover: Agatha and the Limitless Readings

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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

  • Books
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    The Awkward Black Man: Stories by Walter Mosley

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    The Hearing Trumpet: by Leonora Carrington

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    Telephone: by Percival Everett

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    What Becomes a Legend Most: by Philip Gefter

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    The Hearing Trumpet: by Leonora Carrington

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    Telephone: by Percival Everett

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    What Becomes a Legend Most: by Philip Gefter

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    The Best: by Mark Williams and Tim Wigmore

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    Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2014!!

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    Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2013!!

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    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs of the ’10s and Beyond

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    Five Years Later: The Best Films of 2015!!

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    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs of the ’00s

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    Bob Dylan’s 20 Best Songs of the ’90s

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    Top 20 Albums of 2020

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    The 25 Best Songs of 2020

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    Best Film Performances of 2020

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Home Tag Archives: Matador

Tag Archives: Matador

Car Seat Headrest: Teens of Denial

By Nathan Adams
May 22, 2016
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended Music

Toledo makes the mundane seem remarkable.

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Savages: Adore Life

By Kevin Korber
January 27, 2016
in :  Music, Music Reviews

Adore Life is a considerable improvement, an honest attempt by Savages to set themselves apart.

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Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone?

By Kevin Korber
October 19, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

The key to what makes Majical Cloudz tick has always been Devon Welsh.

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Kurt Vile: b’lieve i’m goin down

By Nicodemus Nicoludis
October 4, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

You can hear the darkness of a late hour in the album.

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Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There

By Kevin Korber
August 31, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

A covers album is only as good as the material the band is performing and Yo La Tengo has chosen a great collection of tunes.

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Ceremony: The L-Shaped Man

By Nathan Stevens
July 28, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

Ceremony didn’t just try to fix what wasn’t broken, they set it on fire.

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Algiers: Algiers

By Ray Legendre
June 4, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews

Algiers is enjoyable in small doses.

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Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

By Colin Fitzgerald
January 21, 2015
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Already it’s easy to tell that Belle and Sebastian’s latest record, Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, will be remembered as their “dance album,” an outlier in a discography rife with low-key acoustic chamber pop and twee indie rock classics. Yes, the band makes a remarkable transformation on the album, trading their delicate folk stylings for heady synthesizers, plucky …

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Thurston Moore: The Best Day

By Jester Jay Goldman
October 26, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.5/5]In the beginning was not the word, but a drone: a tone to form the backdrop for all the sounds that followed. Some of those later voices may vie for attention, assert their individuality against the cosmic hum, but eventually they surrender and rejoin its embrace. The Best Day is a celebration of that drone and the rich textures …

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Iceage: Plowing Into the Field of Love

By Samuel Tolzmann
October 13, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.5/5]Birthed by Copenhagen punk scenes that had yet to see large-scale export, Iceage came into this world in a manner none done proper justice by the idiom “kicking and screaming.” They seethed, picked fights and gnashed their teeth so effectively that basically overnight they’d convinced the internet they were the most legitimate thing to bear the handle “punk” in …

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