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Suck: Time to Suck (Capsule Reviews)
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Slipped Disc: Deer Tick - Born on Flag Day (Mixed Media)
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Albums that missed our Top 60 Albums list, but at least one of our writers loves.Artist: Deer Tick Album: Born on Flag Day Label: Partisan Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/blog_art/d/deertick_flagday.jpg Display Width: 200 It seems to be the nature of the world to chafe at any spot of contentment in your life, and Born on Flag Day captures that sense of being at odds with your surroundin...
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Slipped Disc: Dam-Funk - Toeachizown (Mixed Media)
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Albums that missed our Top 60 Albums list, but at least one of our writers loves.Artist: Dam-Funk Album: Toeachizown Label: Stones Throw Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/blog_art/t/toeachizown-200.jpg Display Width: 200 It’s a music writer cliché to say that something takes a genre from the past and makes it fresh again, but the shoe--or the neon blue shades--fits with LA’s Dam-Funk. Hi
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Slipped Disc: Basement Jaxx - Scars (Mixed Media)
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Albums that missed our Top 60 Albums list, but at least one of our writers loves.Artist: Basement Jaxx Album: Scars Label: Ultra/XL Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/blog_art/s/scars-200.jpg Display Width: 200 Forget 2012. If 2009 marked the apocalypse, Scars would make a fantastic send-off for planet Earth. In their dependably inimitable manner, Basement Jaxx have crafted an album that f...
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Mukaizake - Unknown Knowns (Mixed Media)
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PopMatters Sponsor Mukaizake Unknown Knowns (Hidden Shoal Recordings) Out Now The cliché ‘all killer, no filler’ is often bandied around with very little to back it up. In the case of Mukaizake’s stunning new release Unknown Knowns, the cliché applies. Unknown Knowns kicks off with the fuzzy propulsion of single ‘The Yeah Conditioner’, immediately launching the listener into Mukaizake’
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The Day The Music Died, Redux (Sound Affects)
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Part One: 29 Years Ago Where were you? I was in my mother’s bedroom, kissing her goodbye before I caught the school bus, and I heard the horrible news on the clock radio (incidentally, I was in this same room when news of Len Bias–the other devastating death of the decade–flashed across the bottom of the TV screen). As a burgeoning Beatles fan (fanatic), this hurt. And I was old enough to kn
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Slipped Disc: Antony & the Johnsons - The Crying Light (Mixed Media)
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Albums that missed our Top 60 Albums list, but at least one of our writers loves.Artist: Antony and the Johnsons Album: The Crying Light Label: Secretly Canadian Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/blog_art/c/crying-light-200.jpg Display Width: 200 It took Antony Hegarty four years to follow the breakthrough success of I Am a Bird Now with The Crying Light, but in terms of the internal themati
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Mr. Chop: For Pete's Sake (Capsule Reviews)
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