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The Return of the Rentals After Six Years Away
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Matthew Murphy's Post-Wombats Project Sounds a Lot Like the Wombats (And It's a Good Thing)
“I think self-depreciation is important in music; there is such an art to saying something really serious in a humorous way. I think Jarvis Cocker Continue Reading
The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 80-61
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In the Tempest's Eye: An Interview with Surfer Blood
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Hayley Williams Wants Her Haters To Know Why Paramore Only Has Three Original Band Members Left
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Grimes Says Her Baby Likes To Watch ‘Radical Art’ Like ‘Apocalypse Now’
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Selena Gomez, Shaq and Other Celebrities Who Are First-Time Voters in 2020
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Khloe Kardashian Reveals She Tested Positive for COVID-19: ‘S–t is Real’
Khloe Kardashian previously tested positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus). Her test results were revealed on Wednesday (October 28), in an E! Online preview of the upcoming Continue Reading
Mike Tyson Just Dropped an EDM Track
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Artemis Is the Latest Jazz Supergroup
You can find million-and-one words in the music press about “supergroups”—the thrills and spills that occur when hotshots from different bands get together to create Continue Reading
Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters
If anything, horror is about transgressing boundaries and norms. If you think about it, monsters are creatures that challenge biological, physical, social, and even moral Continue Reading
'Wildflowers & All the Rest' Is Tom Petty's Masterpiece
Sometime between the home recording of “Crawling Back to You” on Wildflowers & All the Rest and the version that ended up on Wildflowers itself, Continue Reading
Jazz Composer Maria Schneider Takes on the "Data Lords" in Song
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The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 100-81
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Amirah Heals The World With New Single & Lyric Video “You Are My Land”
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Premiere: Andy Keels Announces The Release Of A Music Video For His Debut Single “Dead To Me,” Off Upcoming EP Fifteen Years
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