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Dale Jenkins’s private-press postpunk finally gets a proper reissue
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Chicago-based label Got Kinda Lost coreleased an expanded version of this 1985 oddity last week.
By Leor Galil
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By Salem Collo-Julin
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Music Therapy
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Vertigo Days
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By Leor Galil
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02.17.21
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Goodbye to songwriter Michael Smith
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Sixteen years after the Boston band’s final studio release, their influential music—which blends emo, slowcore, and jazz—is entirely out of print.
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