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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 -

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  Hear This Feel, feel, feel the heat of this song from Boogie Nights

  All day, all night you feel Dirk Diggler’s heat.

  April 5, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Never forget: when Spock sang about Bilbo Baggins

  A notorious pop-culture mashup that predates the era of pop-culture mashups.

  April 4, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This “Suddenly Seymour” is a heart-melting ballad made possible by killer vegetation

  The Little Shop Of Horrors cut is the best song ever sung by a guy to a girl whose ex-boyfriend the guy just fed to a man-eating plant.

  April 3, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This An imperfect Lemonheads song is nonetheless fantastic

  “Like mackerel in a net / I forget to forget”

  April 2, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This On “Yo Cousin Vinny” Joe Pesci’s acting and singing careers collided

  Seriously, he put out a record.

  April 1, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Pistol Annies drink and toke their way through familial dysfunction

  The perfect pump-up music for the next horrible family holiday dinner.

  March 29, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Ned’s Atomic Dustbin was more than an also-ran of the early alternative era

  Great songs lurked beyond the hits.

  March 28, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Untangling the threads of the Mad Men theme

  There are six decades of artistic expression tied up in “A Beautiful Mine.”

  March 27, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This This mid-’80s song gave a legendary compilation album its name

  Throwing Muses’ “Fish” is a hypnotic, chugging song with inscrutable lyrics.

  March 26, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This “I’ve Got A Testimony” puts religious ecstasy front and center

  The gospel song may have generic lyrics, but the music perfectly underlines the singer’s reason to believe.

  March 25, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This A SXSW standout promises to heed a mother’s advice

  “Catherine 1956” is PAWS’ vow to do something with itself.

  March 22, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Sia covers The Kinks, wallows in despair

  The chart-topping singer-songwriter brings her own flair to a classic track.

  March 21, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Bright days of futures past with The Flaming Lips

  The band bridged two phases of its career when it sang about the “Guy Who Gets A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World.”

  March 20, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This A dubby deep cut from The Clash reverberates 30 years later

  This earworm hits hard.

  March 19, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Skeletonwitch’s “Tragedy Of Days” is a sweet, screeching track of remembrance 

  The Ohio band’s cover is both personal and universal. 

  March 18, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Feist makes a Leonard Cohen tune her own 

  “Closing Time” soundtracks a surreal scene in a film packed with oddities. 

  March 15, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” strikes a blow for country feminism

  Mary Chapin Carpenter’s hit served as a corrective to the genre’s “Stand By Your Man” image.

  March 14, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This A Judd Apatow movie inspires domestic strife between Fiona Apple and her label

  The sing-songwriter penned the kiss-off “Dull Tool” for This Is 40—to the chagrin of the people for whom she usually records.

  March 13, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This One of Dinosaur Jr.’s best tracks was relegated to a B-side

  Get an inside glimpse at the making of this year’s A.V. Undercover list.

  March 12, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Lupe Fiasco’s “Hurt Me Soul” tackles hip-hop misogyny in 22 seconds

  The rapper takes a sorely missed personal approach to the genre on his debut.

  March 11, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Even babies understand that Outkast is great

  What makes “GhettoMusick” particularly alluring to an infant?

  March 8, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Let Róisín Murphy and So You Think You Can Dance teach you the “Ramalama (Bang Bang)”

  Zombie costume optional.

  March 7, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This A party-starter from Beck’s strangest album

  “Mixed Bizness” is scattered and head-scratching even for the guy who got “Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz” stuck in your head for all of 1994.

  March 6, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This Modern-day boy band One Direction inspires a toddler dance party

  A non-dancer learns to get down.

  March 5, 2013 | 1:30pm -

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  Hear This The Pharcyde drops science about AIDS, Menudo, and Zig-Zags in “Soul Flower (Remix)”

  It’s a dance-floor classic, STD references and all.

  March 4, 2013 | 1:30pm -