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What the Phuck?
Liz Phair's last defenders confront the indefensible.
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Making Pop for Capitalist Pigs
M.I.A.'s tangled relationship with the consumer culture
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In Mod We Trusted
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Waiting for the Cut
In Cleric's long-form metal, the tension just keeps building.
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Colorblind Soul
Does Sharon Jones need to care that her audience is full of white hipsters?
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That Band You Don't Understand
Everybody has one. For hardcore vet Sam McPheeters it's the Dillinger Escape Plan.
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A Half Century, a Whole Continent
Africa: 50 Years of Music: Eighteen CDs full of reasons to stop comparing everything that sounds African to Graceland.
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Misogyny Is for the Living
How extreme metal makes gender irrelevant
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The 27th Annual Chicago Blues Festival
Our guide to notable acts
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The Bad Bitches of South by Southwest
From the "return" of Hole to the paradigm-busting hip-hop of Thee Satisfaction
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A Cult Artist’s Cult Artist
Who’s Jackie Leven? Ask Johnny Dowd, or Ron Sexsmith, or Pere Ubu's David Thomas.
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First Time's a Charm
Reissued: the 1986 debut of Chicago pop vets Green
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DJ Khaled and the hip-hop illuminati vs. Danny Brown
The Miami-based producer has a team of crazy millionaires, but the Detroit MC only needs himself
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Short Takes on Recent Releases
A Hawk and a Hacksaw’s lessons from Budapest, 3/4HadBeenEliminated's mysterious Italian unrock, and improvised German postdub from the Moritz von Oswald Trio
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The Pop Heard Round the World
The Western tunes that reached Iran and Brazil in the 60s and 70s spawned wild hybrids that still sound vital today.
- Music, Music Review, Nov 12, 2009
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The New Keepin' It Real
Kid Sister punctures the materialist fantasies of pop radio.
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Earthly Concerns
Heartbreak makes Joanna Newsom more accessible.
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Without Them He's Nothing
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A Homemade Canon
Loud Family front man Scott Miller picks his favorites from a half century of pop, and his choices are fun to read about even when the're hard to agree with.
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Screaming Bloody Mordor
