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You need not be popular to break the rules, and you need not be popular to break your own conventions. Sometimes the very best music is being crafted right on the fringes of the mainstream, and it is for that reason that sometimes you will find some of rock music's greatest DETOURS. [1 August 2008]

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The The: Dusk [Original Recording Remastered]

By Andrew Gilstrap

The The: Soul Mining

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