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Wings Hauser snarls a sleazy anthem to big-city fear
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 8, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Bob Seger and Eddie Murphy go deep, deep, deep undercover
By Sean O'Neal August 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
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All 22 bands The A.V. Club saw at Poland’s Off Festival, reviewed
By Marah Eakin August 6, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Robots, wrestlers, and punk-rock parrots: 15 proven gimmicks to get your band noticed
By Josh Modell, Erik Adams, Mike Vago, Jason Heller August 6, 2014 | 5:00am
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You got the touch! You got the power! Yeah!
By Josh Modell August 5, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Lollapalooza 2014: Alone at the mega-festival
By Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya August 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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Introducing the bands: 22 songs that double as band histories and/or mission statements
By Annie Zaleski, Noah Cruickshank, Josh Modell, Drew Toal, Molly Eichel, David Anthony, Sean O'Neal, Rowan Kaiser, William Hughes, Matt Gerardi, Mike Vago August 4, 2014 | 5:00am
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Anthrax’s ode to Judge Dredd became thrash metal’s missing link
By David Anthony August 1, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Suicide arrived on the back of a flaming motorcyle
By Sean O'Neal July 31, 2014 | 6:00pm
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The cartoon caveman who inspired David Bowie
By Erik Adams July 30, 2014 | 6:00pm
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We’re giving away two spots on Motörhead’s Motörboat cruise
By David Anthony July 29, 2014 | 9:30pm
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A Wedding Present deep cut pays tribute to a cult superhero
By Josh Modell July 29, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Usher’s Confessions rode fictionalized scandal to the top of the charts
By Evan Rytlewski July 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Hip-Hop Family Tree’s Ed Piskor on The Rake’s wack “Street Justice”
By Oliver Sava July 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Beyoncé and Jay Z’s On The Run tour plays like the best movie of 2014
By Anne T. Donahue July 28, 2014 | 5:00am
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As AC/DC proved, there’s nothing sexy about muddled metaphors
By David Anthony July 25, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Merge Records’ Laura Ballance curates a 25-hour playlist of the label’s best LPs
By Amy Plitt July 25, 2014 | 5:00am
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Katy Perry offers her sexiest poop joke
By Sean O'Neal July 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Rick Moody writes about and interviews Peter Bauer of The Walkmen
By Rick Moody July 24, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor picks his top 5 songs about prison
By Marah Eakin July 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Paradise By The Dashboard Light” is intentionally unsexy
By Sonia Saraiya July 23, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Jonah Ray on his intense, burning hatred for Sublime’s “What I Got”
By Marah Eakin July 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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R. Kelly has designs on your posterior
By Josh Modell July 22, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Bigger and bitchier: A superlative rundown of the best records of 2014 so far
By Evan Rytlewski, kenneth-partridge, Chris Mincher, Jason Heller, Eric Thurm, Annie Zaleski, David Brusie, David Anthony, Ryan Bray, Josh Terry, Jonah Bayer, Kyle Fowle, Marah Eakin, Paula Mejia July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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We Are The World united America’s biggest pop stars to make us feel better
By Eric Thurm July 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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On grinding, public boners, and Next’s “Too Close”
By Marah Eakin July 21, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Beck and a head-butting St. Vincent amped up 2014’s Pitchfork Music Festival
By Kayla Reed, Eric Thurm, Josh Modell, David Anthony, Sean O'Neal, Erik Adams, Marah Eakin July 21, 2014 | 5:30pm
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Minus Michael: The other Jacksons’ solo work deserves another listen
By Jason Heller July 21, 2014 | 5:00am
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A kawaii single, vaporwave, and some crazy dancing clips
By Becca James, Marah Eakin, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Weird Al” made an eccentric epic with “Albuquerque”
By David Anthony July 18, 2014 | 5:00pm
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“Weird Al” Yankovic answers our 11 Questions
By Marah Eakin July 18, 2014 | 5:00am
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Unraveling a fantasy: A beginner’s guide to Japanese idol pop
By Abigail Covington July 18, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Another One Rides The Bus” is “Weird Al” at his purest
By Sean O'Neal July 17, 2014 | 4:00pm
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What’s your favorite song of the year so far?
By Evan Rytlewski, kenneth-partridge, Annie Zaleski, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, David Brusie, Josh Modell, Eric Thurm, David Anthony, Becca James, Erik Adams, Sean O'Neal, Andrea Battleground, Josh Terry, Sonia Saraiya, Jesse Hassenger, Alasdair Wilkins, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago July 17, 2014 | 5:00am
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Where Weird Al and Martin Scorsese meet: Neverland
By Josh Modell July 16, 2014 | 6:00pm
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“Do your best and don’t worry”: 7 uplifting Morrissey songs
By Jason Heller July 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Weird Al” Yankovic’s Devo parody is more Devo than the real thing
By Erik Adams July 15, 2014 | 6:00pm
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SNL’s Vanessa Bayer on why she hates the watery insult behind “Tomorrow”
By Marah Eakin July 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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With When I Was Cruel, Elvis Costello made a return to formlessness
By kenneth-partridge July 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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Can anything truly be called “song of the summer” anymore?
By Sean O'Neal, Marah Eakin July 14, 2014 | 5:00am
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A friendly novel, a coffee-table rock book, and some Magritte
By Josh Modell, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya July 12, 2014 | 5:00am
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Lifetime found ways to channel its youth on its reunion record
By David Anthony July 11, 2014 | 5:00pm
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In 1962, the Williamsburg Bridge inspired a comeback—not indie, but Sonny
By Jason Heller July 10, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Has ’90s punk stood the test of time?
By David Anthony, Josh Modell, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller July 10, 2014 | 5:00am
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Loretta Lynn’s true comeback came four years after the first one
By Erik Adams July 9, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Johnny Cash humbles himself after a hedonistic history
By Marah Eakin July 8, 2014 | 6:00pm
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With Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Outkast heralded the decline of gangster rap
By Jonah Bromwich July 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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We’ll play guitar and video games
By Josh Modell July 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Folk is 2014’s heaviest music
By Jason Heller July 7, 2014 | 5:00am
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Brian Eno and David Byrne put the empty American dialogue to music
By Sean O'Neal July 4, 2014 | 5:00am
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LPs from the Congo, Canada, and Milwaukee
By Erik Adams, Jason Heller, Marah Eakin July 4, 2014 | 5:00am
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Superman and Sonic Youth are fairy tales—it’s time to face the truth
By Josh Modell July 3, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Where to start with the harsh, mechanized beat of industrial
By Jason Heller July 3, 2014 | 5:00am
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Did the American Dream fail Iron And Wine?
By Marah Eakin July 2, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Elliott’s “Calm Americans” was a call to arms that no one followed
By David Anthony July 1, 2014 | 6:00pm
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“Save The Last Dance For Me” is a secret ode to obsessive love
By Beth Gaston July 1, 2014 | 5:00am
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For Max Silvestri, hating “Bulls On Parade” recalls a painful adolescence
By Josh Modell July 1, 2014 | 5:00am
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On Weezer’s most underrated album, the band brought its own fireworks
By Erik Adams June 30, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Soundgarden both redefined and transcended grunge on 1994’s Superunknown
By Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Chris Mincher, Jason Heller June 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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Beach Slang offers up the summer anthem of a bygone era
By David Anthony June 27, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Arthur Russell says, this summer, “Let’s Go Swimming”
By Sean O'Neal June 26, 2014 | 4:00pm
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An anthem for memories that are more than haircuts and jackets
By Erik Adams June 25, 2014 | 6:00pm
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I sincerely miss those heavy metal bands
By Josh Modell June 24, 2014 | 6:00pm
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For Smokey Robinson, A Quiet Storm was also a perfect one
By Jason Heller June 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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Forget “Summertime”— Jurassic 5’s “Concrete Schoolyard” is the hot weather jam
By Marah Eakin June 23, 2014 | 6:00pm
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A “twee” book, a ridiculous board game, and an old how-to tome
By Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning, Jason Heller June 21, 2014 | 5:00am
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What bands deserve musicals?
By Caroline Siede, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, Zack Handlen, Genevieve Valentine, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Brandon Nowalk, Alasdair Wilkins, Dennis Perkins, Mike Vago June 20, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Skid Row (Downtown)” is the refrain of everyone destined to become plant food
By Sean O'Neal June 19, 2014 | 6:00pm
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We’re giving away 2 tickets to this year’s Gathering Of The Juggalos
By Marah Eakin June 18, 2014 | 2:55pm
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“Sunset Boulevard” sets mutually assured destruction to a catchy tune
By Laura M. Browning June 17, 2014 | 6:00pm
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With Lateralus, Tool built a monument to metal’s evolution
By Jason Heller June 17, 2014 | 5:00am
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Taking the leap sometimes means achieving dreams—and sometimes means suicide
By Emily St. James June 16, 2014 | 6:00pm
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An old comedy album, a new pair of headphones, and some tonka toasters
By Becca James, Marah Eakin, Alison Bridges June 14, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Fuck the morals, does it make any money?”
By Laura M. Browning June 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Colin Newman’s solo debut is Wire’s best album it never recorded
By Sean O'Neal June 12, 2014 | 6:00pm
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With Vauxhall And I, Morrissey found room to breathe
By David Anthony, Josh Modell, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Annie Zaleski June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
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With his solo project Tony Molina made Japandroids’ celebration rock an ethos
By David Anthony June 11, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Bad dads: 19 songs about shitty fathers
By Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, David Anthony, Erik Adams, Sam Barsanti, Alasdair Wilkins, Mike Vago, Marah Eakin, Sonia Saraiya June 11, 2014 | 5:00am
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“Beware My Love,” sure, but beware whom, exactly?
By Emily St. James June 10, 2014 | 6:00pm
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With “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues,” the Spin Doctors kicked Superman while he was down
By kenneth-partridge June 10, 2014 | 5:00am
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In 1999, Jimmy Eat World closed a decade—and opened the next
By Jason Heller June 10, 2014 | 5:00am
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Ozzy Osbourne’s solo debut took him on a “Crazy Train”
By Marah Eakin June 9, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Comedian Jon Daly on why he hates Green Day’s “American Idiot”
By Chris O'Connell June 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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A comic, a book, and a crazy weird instrument
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya June 7, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Clash’s best song was a single (that became an album standout)
By David Anthony June 6, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Talking Heads puts love in parentheses
By Sean O'Neal June 5, 2014 | 4:00pm
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A beginner’s guide to the music of Led Zeppelin
By Jason Heller June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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R.E.M. is sorry
By Josh Modell June 4, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Parentheses, The Four Tops, and the seeds of pop geekery
By Erik Adams June 3, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Travis’ The Man Who paved the way for Coldplay’s sensitivity
By Annie Zaleski June 3, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Meatmen’s Tesco Vee on why he hates “Piano Man”
By Marah Eakin June 3, 2014 | 5:00am
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“7/4 (Shoreline)” is a comforting reminder to slow down
By Marah Eakin June 2, 2014 | 6:00pm
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A Jarvis Cocker talk show and two excellent new books
By Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning, Jason Heller May 31, 2014 | 5:00am
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1994! said “fuck it” and made a lo-fi masterpiece
By David Anthony May 30, 2014 | 5:00pm
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A Detroit garage-rock legend made its own savage, trash-talking theme song
By Jason Heller May 29, 2014 | 4:00pm
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The Flaming Lips went no-fi with “Put The Waterbug In The Policeman’s Ear”
By Josh Modell May 28, 2014 | 6:00pm
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They Might Be Giants can hear you, just barely hear you
By Erik Adams May 27, 2014 | 4:00pm
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With the La Bamba soundtrack, America got the chance to right some wrongs
By kenneth-partridge May 27, 2014 | 5:00am
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Hot Water Music’s “Minno” turns tragedy into something positive
By David Anthony May 23, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins on why he hates U2’s “Discothèque”
By Marah Eakin May 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Cure even finds reasons to mope on the dance floor
By Sean O'Neal May 22, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Jon Brion grants you permission to mope
By Erik Adams May 21, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Coldplay’s X&Y was its first very bad album—and its first no. 1
By Sonia Saraiya May 21, 2014 | 5:00am
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Sufjan Stevens wrings beauty from death
By Josh Modell May 20, 2014 | 6:00pm
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With “Still D.R.E.,” Dr. Dre tried and (luckily) failed to relive 1992
By kenneth-partridge May 20, 2014 | 5:00am
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With Definitely Maybe, Oasis brought swagger back to England’s rock scene
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Annie Zaleski, Jason Heller May 20, 2014 | 5:00am
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Blue days call for blues from Ethiopiques’ best volume
By Marah Eakin May 19, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Enter to win a deluxe box set version of Oasis' Definitely Maybe
By Marah Eakin May 19, 2014 | 4:28pm
