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Image (partial) from 'Save Yourself!!!', by Hideyuki Ando, Junji Watanabe and Tomofumi Yoshida
Songs, Swoosh-ifiedChannel Crossings33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 2Continuum October 2007, 352 pages, $15.95 [13 February 2008] by Raphaël Costambeys-KempczynskiThe quintessential element of the digital audio revolution is the creation of the ‘random’ button, that default 'shuffle function', which renders us no longer creators of mix-tapes, but consumers of playlists.
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Re-make/Re-Model and the Becoming of Bryan FerryRaphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski19.Jun.08 Roxy Music positioned themselves as postmodern: boundary blurring, self-reflexive, both serious in an art rock vein and playful in a glam rock vein. 
1977: The Year Decency Died - Part IIRaphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski10.Apr.08 If punk’s message was ‘destroy’, then inevitably wrapped up in its own scream of existence was its dying breath. No sooner was 1977 declared the year of punk than the death of punk was in the cards. 
1977: The Year Decency Died - Part IRaphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski09.Apr.08 "I loathe and detest everything they stand for and look like. They are obnoxious, obscene and disgusting."
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Rabble Without a Cause: Let’s Spice-up the 2008 Election, Iron Chef-Style
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