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Deanne Sole
Features
Books
[9.Jul.08] :. Deanne Sole journeys Melbourne's charity outlets, exploring the fundamentals of the down under St. Vincent de Paul outlet: Bargains, surprises, drunks.
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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
[18.Dec.07] :. As a category world music is both useful and frustrating. It puts CDs on the shelves and prevents people picking them up. It is the other-than category: other-than rock, other-than indie, other-than everything. It is the whole world and nothing definite.
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006
[12.Dec.06] :. From Thailand to Tanzania, from France to Cuba and Romania: Deanne Sole's wrap-up of the year's best world music trips the globe fantastic.
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2006
Reviews
Music
[8.Jul.08] :. Black Stars is an adeptly compiled hiplife snapshot, giving us a sampling of recent arrivals like Tic Tac, as well as godfather figures such as Reggie Rockstone.
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Music
[2.Jul.08] :. The songs on Group Doueh were recorded by the group itself, “at home", say the liner notes, “on modest cassette recording equipment". But you don’t need to read the packaging to know that.
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Music
[30.Jun.08] :. Sima argues the existence of an Argentinean pop scene that creates smart and pleasantly eccentric music.
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Music
[23.Jun.08] :. A good-humoured album, mild-mannered, laid-back, and enjoyable -- an album without fury or evil thoughts.
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Featured Article
 Music
[25.Oct.07] :. Complex without being confusing, a brilliant Frankenmixture that sounds completely natural.
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PopMatters Pick
 Music
[16.Mar.07] :. Tinariwen plays rock guitar with a rangy American sound, broad and lazy and slow.
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Featured Article
 Music
[8.Mar.07] :. The apple-cheeked bounce of a hopped-up village green.
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Featured Article
 Music
[27.Oct.06] :. You could almost forgive Stonetree if From Bakabush sounded amateurish and the songs were shaky and ragged. Instead, the label has put together an album that serves as both an introduction to the label and a superbly enjoyable invitation to the region's music as a whole.
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PopMatters Pick
 Music
[17.Jan.06] :. Their collaboration with Manu Chao brings the good parts of all three musicians together in wonderful ways.
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Blog posts
Re:Print
[2.Oct.07] :. Bruno Schulz was shot dead in the street by a Nazi, not an unusual fate for a Polish Jew in 1942. A hundred nameless people shot dead in the street by Nazis (vaguely, historically, without anything...
Re:Print
Re:Print
[24.Sep.07] :. A reviewer once wrote of Les Murray that he had published no juvenilia. The same can be said of Christina Stead. Her first books, Seven Poor Men of Sydney and The Salzburg Tales, both...
Re:Print
Re:Print
[22.Aug.07] :. Have you ever finished a book and then gone back to the beginning to read it all over again because you can't bear to let it go? I did that for the first time a few days ago when I came to the end of...
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Re:Print
[13.Aug.07] :. Reading Henry Treece's The Green Man, which climaxes in a long spasm of apocalyptic violence -- death by sword, buildings on fire, women eaten by pigs, that sort of thing -- it's startling to...
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Short Ends and Leader
[20.Jun.07] :. Little Big Shots: Melbourne's International Film Festival for Kids
June 6-11 2007
ACMI Cinemas, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
It was the first day of the festival, first morning, first...
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