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The Top 20 Punk Protest Songs for July 4th
As punk music history verifies, American citizenry are not all shiny, happy people. These 20 songs reflect the other side of patriotism -- free speech brandished by the brave and uncouth.
04 Jul 2020
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90 Years on 'Olivia' Remains a Classic of Lesbian Literature
It's good that we have our happy LGBTQ stories today, but it's also important to appreciate and understand the daunting depths of feeling that a love repressed can produce. In Dorothy Strachey's case, it produced the masterful Olivia.
30 Jun 2020
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Indie Rocker Alpha Cat Presents 'Live at Vox Pop' (album stream)
A raw live set from Brooklyn in the summer of 2005 found Alpha Cat returning to the stage after personal tumult. Sales benefit organizations seeking to end discrimination toward those seeking help with mental health issues.
30 Jun 2020
Love in the Time of Coronavirus
‘The Avengers’ Offer a Lesson for Our Time of COVID-19
Whereas the heroes in Avengers: Endgame stew for five years, our grief has barely taken us to the after-credit sequence. Someone page Captain Marvel, please.
30 Jun 2020
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Between the Grooves of Nirvana's 'Nevermind'
Our writers undertake a track-by-track analysis of the most celebrated album of the 1990s: Nirvana's Nevermind. From the surprise hit that brought grunge to the masses, to the hidden cacophonous noise-fest that may not even be on your copy of the record, it's all here.
30 Jun 2020
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Deeper Graves Arrives via 'Open Roads' (album stream)
Chrome Waves, ex-Nachtmystium man Jeff Wilson offers up solo debut, Open Roads, featuring dark and remarkable sounds in tune with Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus.
30 Jun 2020
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The 50 Best Albums of 2020 So Far
Even in the coronavirus-shortened record release schedule of 2020, the year has offered a mountainous feast of sublime music. The 50 best albums of 2020 so far are an eclectic and increasingly "woke" bunch.
30 Jun 2020
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First Tragedy, Then Farce, Then What?
Riffing off Marx's riff on Hegel on history, art historian and critic Hal Foster contemplates political culture and cultural politics in the age of Donald Trump in What Comes After Farce?
29 Jun 2020
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HAIM Create Their Best Album with 'Women in Music Pt. III'
On Women in Music Pt. III, HAIM are done pretending and ready to be themselves. By learning to embrace the power in their weakest points, the group have created their best work to date.
29 Jun 2020
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Amnesia Scanner's 'Tearless' Aesthetically Maps the Failing Anthropocene
Amnesia Scanner's Tearless aesthetically maps the failing Anthropocene through its globally connected features and experimental mesh of deconstructed club, reggaeton, and metalcore.
29 Jun 2020
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How Lasting Is the Legacy of the Live 8 Charity Concert?
A voyage to the bottom of a T-shirt drawer prompts a look back at a major event in the history of celebrity charity concerts, 2005's Live 8, Philadelphia.
29 Jun 2020
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Jessie Ware Embraces Her Club Culture Roots on Rapturous 'What's Your Pleasure?'
British diva Jessie Ware cooks up a glittery collection of hedonistic disco tracks and delivers one of the year's best records with What's Your Pleasure.
29 Jun 2020
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