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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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    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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    Holy Hell! Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP 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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    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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    Oeuvre: David Cronenberg: A History of Violence

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    The Awkward Black Man: Stories by Walter Mosley

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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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Home Tag Archives: Tom Waits

Tag Archives: Tom Waits

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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Revisit: Tom Waits: Heartattack and Vine

By Cole Waterman
July 29, 2013
in :  Music, Music Features, Revisit-Rediscover

The discography of Tom Waits can generally be divided into two, B.C. and A.D.-type eras — the jazz-folk barroom balladry of his first seven records on the Asylum label and the madman-making-a-carnival-out-of-a-junkyard that followed. To zero in even further, one could make the case that Waits’ oeuvre has no fewer than five distinct periods, but we’ll go with the two …

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Various Artists: Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys

By Josh Goller
March 28, 2013
in :  Music, Music Reviews

[xrr rating=3.0/5]Remember when Pirates of the Caribbean was only a theme park attraction? Me neither. Pirates have long captivated our collective imagination, inhabiting both villain and antihero roles in various forms of storytelling since they first roamed the high seas. Hell, they’ve even been used to sell knock-off sugar cereals and announce the impending arrival of an animated, pants-wearing sponge. …

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Seven Psychopaths

By David Harris
October 14, 2012
in :  Film, Film Reviews

A cadre of whackos and crooks populate True Romance, the 1993 Tony Scott-directed/Quentin Tarantino-written film where you can see Brad Pitt smoke pot out of a honey bear and Gary Oldman play a racially-confused pimp. But the one scene that everyone still talks about nearly 20 years later features Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper. The former is a mafia hit …

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List Inconsequential: Runt of the Litter: Weak Albums By Strong Artists

By Spectrum Culture Staff
May 3, 2012
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists, Recommended

Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004), two of the most experimental, sophisticated albums of the decade. Then after he cleaned up, they produced Sky …

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Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters Edited by Paul Maher Jr.

By David Harris
January 22, 2012
in :  Books, Reviews

[xrr rating=3.0/5] Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters, a compilation of interviews given by the reclusive musician between 1973’s Closing Time and the 2008 collection Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, is a tale of two Tom Waits. Compiled by Paul Maher Jr., the anthology zeros in on the sharp contrast between the Waits before meeting wife Kathleen Brennan …

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List Inconsequential: Best Musicians Turned Actors

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 19, 2012
in :  List Inconsequential, Lists, Recommended

James Taylor in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Okay, let’s be real: the performance from Monte Hellman’s ’70s anti-road movie that everyone remembers is not James Taylor as the affectless, unnamed driver, but Warren Oates as his colorful racing rival. Oates is great fun to watch, but the film wouldn’t work without Taylor’s bewildered displacement — that weird sense that he seems …

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Five Years Later: The Best Albums of 2006!!

By Spectrum Culture Staff
January 4, 2012
in :  Five Years Later, Lists, Recommended

Five years is an eternity in the life of a record. When coming up with this feature, the question the Spectrum Culture staff pondered was this: “How well do these albums play NOW!” Not five years ago, but how have they aged in our memories. While some acclaimed albums of ’06 remain strong on our list, some critically-lauded ones didn’t …

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The Top 20 Albums of 2011

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 15, 2011
in :  Lists, Recommended, Year End Lists

20. Fucked Up – David Comes to Life [Matador] The most ambitious band to vaguely fit under the description of “hardcore punk” since Refused dissolved, Toronto sextet Fucked Up have outdone themselves with this year’s David Comes to Life. A rock opera is precisely the sort of thing punks set out to kill, but David Comes to Life never wants …

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Top 25 Songs of 2011

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 14, 2011
in :  Lists, Recommended, Year End Lists

25. St. Vincent – “Surgeon” [4AD] To know Annie Clark is to love her. The versatile songstress and musician has been making indie hearts melt since her time with the Polyphonic Spree, and her 2007 debut Marry Me was beloved for its cheeky sense of humor (see: the album’s “Arrested Development”-inspired title) and the sheer skill she exhibited. She’s released …

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