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  Hear This Destroy This Place shows how press releases can get it right

  Fugazi + Japandroids = a way into a writer’s heart.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A song with a long title succinctly encapsulates ’90s power-pop

  Chicago’s Pet Symmetry is no stranger to the grand “whoa.”

  May 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This Connections gives a Guided By Voices-indebted reason to go for the opener

  The Ohio band makes its state proud.

  May 15, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Fuck the rich kid, fuck the rich kid, fuck the rich kid

  Gaunt doesn’t beat around the bush on I Can See Your Mom From Here.

  May 14, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This In the late ’70s, Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein got “Drunk And Crazy”

  The honky-tonk song is a late ’70s country classic.

  May 13, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This In “Atomic Kid,” Versus sounded an alarm that proved prescient

  The beloved indie-rock band offers a peacetime bum-out.

  May 10, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This An Iceage side project sings of the apocalypse

  Vår’s “The World Fell” is elegantly depressing.

  May 9, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This An early Killing Joke song brings out the dead

  “Requiem” is an inhumanly cruel contraption of industrialized dread.

  May 8, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Neil Diamond made his name with “Solitary Man”

  Noah Kaminsky’s version of the song just wouldn’t have been the same.

  May 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A new Fleetwood Mac track finds the group as lively as ever

  “Sad Angel” is off the band’s new EP.

  May 6, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This When R. Kelly met Broken Social Scene, magic was created

  The Hood Internet’s blending “I’m A Flirt” and “7/4 (Shoreline)” is a high-water mark of mash-ups.

  May 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Justin Bieber is amazing when he’s slowed down 800 percent

  It’s the only way the pop singer can ever sound ethereal.

  May 2, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Pogo’s “Alice” is the Internet’s nostalgia fixation at its most enchanting

  Australian producer stretches, splices, and remixes a Disney classic into a Wonderland all his own.

  May 1, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This A pervy mash-up that defiles a kids’ show

  “Cooking By The Book” is dirty and delightful.

  April 30, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Hear This In just 29 seconds, Parry Gripp captures the essence of a skateboarding dachshund

  The former Nerf Herder member does this shit for a living now.

  April 29, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Wardruna brings its Nordic-folk to Vikings

  Ragnar Lodbrok would approve.

  April 26, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Hear This Janelle Monáe and Erykah Badu are face-serving, wings-eating “Q.U.E.E.N.”s

  The booty don’t lie.

  April 25, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This X’s anthem for survival in a messy world

  How to make “down we go / cradle and all” sound more like a rallying cry than a declaration of defeat.

  April 24, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Sing along with DMX

  Party Up (Up In Here).

  April 23, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This A Swedish metal band finds the devil in the details

  Ghost B.C.’s “Secular Haze” is a mini-masterpiece.

  April 22, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This The madness of Ministry, revisited by someone who knew it well

  Chris Connelly joined Plague Bringer for Record Store Day

  April 19, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This An ex-Beatle flexes his wings on “Maybe I’m Amazed”

  It isn’t always easy to pick between a live performance and the studio version.

  April 18, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This How “Help, I’m Alive” dragged Metric from a premature burial

  And why the acoustic version gets closer to that sense than the recording that made the band a chart success in the United States.

  April 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A brooding deep cut from R.E.M.’s Green anchors a 25th-anniversary offshoot EP

  The deluxe reissue of Green just couldn’t hold all the R.E.M., so here are some bonuses.

  April 16, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This With “Why Can’t I Be You?,” The Cure found catharsis in song

  The band’s excellent Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is getting an LP reissue for Record Store Day.

  April 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A new track shows off the darker side of a writer’s favorite MC

  Doomtree MC Dessa offers a taste of her upcoming album, and it’s a little salty.

  April 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Remembering the unlikely track that united DOOM and Larry The Cable Guy

  DOOM once again turns trash into treasure.

  April 11, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This With “I Stand Accused,” Elvis Costello And The Attractions made a copy of a cover

  A revved-up reinterpretation from a record that was dated before it even came out.

  April 10, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A metal song beloved by a writer with no interest in metal

  Prong’s “Prove You Wrong” is an industrial departure.

  April 9, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This On “All Your Women Things,” Smog schools listeners on love, loss, and breasts

  It would be incredibly romantic if it weren’t so damn heartbreaking.

  April 8, 2013 | 1:30pm -