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Singer-songwriter John Vanderslice on the very personal reasons he hates Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life”
By Marah Eakin June 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Just like the white wing dove, Stevie Nicks’ solo debut soared
By Jason Heller June 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Locrian’s “Eternal Return” is the perfect soundtrack for apocalyptic handholding
By AV Club Staff June 24, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Richard Thompson reminds us there’s a big old pot of nothing at “The End Of The Rainbow”
By Aaron Lariviere June 21, 2013 | 5:00pm
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What song do you want played at your funeral?
By Danny Gallagher, Scott Von Doviak, David Anthony, Andrea Battleground, Brandon Nowalk, Evan Rytlewski, Jason Heller, Joel Keller, John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Sonia Saraiya, Claire Zulkey, Sam Adams, Cory Casciato, Kevin McFarland, Steve Heisler, Josh Modell, Pilot Viruet, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin June 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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Picking a path through the nebulous terrain of post-rock
By Jason Heller June 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Deacon Blues,” Scotch, Steely Dan, and other intergenerational appreciations
By Erik Adams June 19, 2013 | 6:00pm
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My dad toured with Phil Collins
By Josh Modell June 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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“The Jock Jam” megamix inadvertently plays out ESPN’s inner tensions
By Emily St. James June 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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A dad’s love for “Oh Sherrie” conjures up memories—and a few unanswered questions
By Matt Wild June 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Jukebox superhero: 26 songs about Superman
By Danny Gallagher, Kevin McFarland, Annie Zaleski, Noah Cruickshank, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, Matt Wild, Oliver Sava, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Sam Adams, Laura M. Browning June 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Jimmy Eat World would like everyone to forget about “Reason 346”
By Kyle Ryan June 14, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Who was your pop-culture mentor?
By Cory Casciato, Danny Gallagher, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Evan Rytlewski, Annie Zaleski, Josh Modell, Matt Wild, David Anthony, Joel Keller, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Andrea Battleground, Brandon Nowalk, Sonia Saraiya, David Sims, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson June 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Carve Out Your Tongue” carves a dark path for Grave Babies
By Jason Heller June 13, 2013 | 4:00pm
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How “Dog Eat Dog” proves “Weird Al” Yankovic is a one-man Gateway To Geekery
By Erik Adams June 12, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Musical teen idols deserve more respect than they currently get
By Annie Zaleski June 12, 2013 | 4:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Bonnaroo
By Amelie Gillette June 12, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Screw The Strokes: How The Dandy Warhols kick-started the ’00s rock ’n’ roll revival
By Annie Zaleski June 11, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Beck at his best, depressed
By Josh Modell June 11, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Al Madrigal on why he abhors Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop”
By Marah Eakin June 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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Wilco and Calexico team up for a dynamite cover
By Marah Eakin June 10, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Smith Westerns’ “Varsity” strikes a chord with the sad summer bastard in all of us
By Matt Wild June 7, 2013 | 5:00pm
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In 1968, An Open Letter addressed the era’s troubled times, with maximum squareness
By Kyle Ryan June 7, 2013 | 3:00pm
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“Chocolate” is the jam about guns and petticoats summer’s been waiting for
By Kyle Ryan June 6, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo on why he hates 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?”
By Drew Fortune June 6, 2013 | 5:00am
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A beginners’ guide to funk overlord James Brown
By Jason Heller June 6, 2013 | 5:00am
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Savages’ stormy “Husbands” is the track for a summer that doesn’t feel like summer
By Erik Adams June 5, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Xenia Rubinos captures a summer breeze in a song
By Josh Modell June 4, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Backstreet Boys’ Millennium was the opening shot of the early-’00s boy-band sales war
By Genevieve Koski June 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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With “Unbelievers,” Vampire Weekend harnesses inner turmoil in a sunny package
By Marah Eakin June 3, 2013 | 4:00pm
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“All Your Friends Are Comedians” is a gloriously bombastic kiss-off
By Kyle Ryan May 31, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Boards Of Canada’s “Whitewater” captures the duo when its sound evoked wistful nostalgia
By Sean O'Neal May 30, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Where to start with the tuneful heaviness of Josh Homme
By Jason Heller May 30, 2013 | 5:00am
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Before shoegaze, there was this Love And Rockets dream-anthem
By Jason Heller May 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Anthrax’s Scott Ian on why he absolutely hates Morrissey’s “Suedehead”
By Marah Eakin May 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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King Tuff’s infectious, long out-of-print debut resurfaces
By Austin L. Ray May 28, 2013 | 4:00pm
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With “Do You Remember Rock ’N’ Roll Radio?,” the Ramones pirated the past
By Jason Heller May 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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“Second Best” reflects a pivotal moment all serious bands face
By Kyle Ryan May 24, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Pantera’s “Walk” is the cry of aggrieved, disaffected youth
By Sean O'Neal May 23, 2013 | 4:00pm
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An initiation into the psychedelic sci-fi rock of Hawkwind
By Jason Heller May 23, 2013 | 5:00am
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You don’t have to know the words to have fun with this Stone Temple Pilots single
By Erik Adams May 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Will indie-rock reunions become just part of the plan?
By Steven Arroyo May 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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An early Walkmen song gets anti-nostalgic
By Josh Modell May 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The Breeders’ Last Splash is a rallying cry for the weirdos and stereotype-flouters
By Annie Zaleski May 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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How does Chris Brown get away with it?
By Evan Rytlewski, Annie Zaleski May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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What do we mean when we call music pretentious?
By Jason Heller May 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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With “Deceptacon,” Le Tigre captured the sound of youth in a song
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The crowd-funding conundrum: The line between bringing fans closer and taking advantage
By Jonah Bayer May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Destroy This Place shows how press releases can get it right
By Kyle Ryan May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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A song with a long title succinctly encapsulates ’90s power-pop
By David Anthony May 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Connections gives a Guided By Voices-indebted reason to go for the opener
By Erik Adams May 15, 2013 | 6:00pm
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High infidelity: For the love of side projects
By Jason Heller May 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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Fuck the rich kid, fuck the rich kid, fuck the rich kid
By Josh Modell May 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The surprisingly subversive album that changed stand-up comedy forever
By Kyle Ryan May 14, 2013 | 5:00am
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In the late ’70s, Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein got “Drunk And Crazy”
By Marah Eakin May 13, 2013 | 6:00pm
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In “Atomic Kid,” Versus sounded an alarm that proved prescient
By Kyle Ryan May 10, 2013 | 5:00pm
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An Iceage side project sings of the apocalypse
By Jason Heller May 9, 2013 | 4:00pm
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An early Killing Joke song brings out the dead
By Jason Heller May 8, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Neil Diamond made his name with “Solitary Man”
By Jason Heller May 7, 2013 | 5:00pm
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A personal, firsthand account of Neutral Milk Hotel’s debut single
By Jason Heller May 7, 2013 | 5:00am
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A new Fleetwood Mac track finds the group as lively as ever
By Noah Cruickshank May 6, 2013 | 6:00pm
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!!!’s Nic Offer hates “The House Of The Rising Sun”
By Marah Eakin May 6, 2013 | 4:00pm
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An autographed memento from a morning spent with Kal Penn and the Everclear guy
By Erik Adams May 6, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Justin Bieber is amazing when he’s slowed down 800 percent
By Sean O'Neal May 2, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Har Mar Superstar’s Sean Tillmann has no sympathy for Eric Clapton’s “Tears In Heaven”
By Marah Eakin May 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Pogo’s “Alice” is the Internet’s nostalgia fixation at its most enchanting
By Erik Adams May 1, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Bret Michaels
By Amelie Gillette May 1, 2013 | 4:00pm
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“Spread your wings and let me come inside”: 13 songs about losing virginity
By Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Zack Handlen, David Anthony, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski May 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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A pervy mash-up that defiles a kids’ show
By Josh Modell April 30, 2013 | 5:00am
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In just 29 seconds, Parry Gripp captures the essence of a skateboarding dachshund
By Marah Eakin April 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Wardruna brings its Nordic-folk to Vikings
By Jason Heller April 26, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Janelle Monáe and Erykah Badu are face-serving, wings-eating “Q.U.E.E.N.”s
By Genevieve Koski April 25, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Echo & The Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch on why he abhors “With A Little Help From My Friends”
By Will Harris April 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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X’s anthem for survival in a messy world
By Erik Adams April 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Sing along with DMX
By Josh Modell April 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman on why he hates “Mambo No. 5”
By Marah Eakin April 23, 2013 | 4:00pm
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A Swedish metal band finds the devil in the details
By Jason Heller April 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Why Do I Own This? returns with a singing, blood-spattered Jesse Ventura
By David Anthony April 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: April 19-21
By AV Club Staff April 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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The madness of Ministry, revisited by someone who knew it well
By Kyle Ryan April 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The album you’ve loved longest
By Carrie Raisler, David Anthony, Andrea Battleground, Noel Murray, Brandon Nowalk, Nathan Rabin, Jason Heller, Joel Keller, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sonia Saraiya, Cory Casciato, Kevin McFarland, Josh Modell, Marc Hawthorne, Erik Adams, Ryan McGee, Emily St. James, Tasha Robinson April 19, 2013 | 5:00am
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An ex-Beatle flexes his wings on “Maybe I’m Amazed”
By Jason Heller April 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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A beginner’s guide to the music of The Cure
By Jason Heller April 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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24 hours of “born to kill” movies with Hutch Harris of The Thermals
By Josh Modell April 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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How “Help, I’m Alive” dragged Metric from a premature burial
By Erik Adams April 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Black Sabbath, Dust, and the myth of the “metallectual”
By Jason Heller April 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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A brooding deep cut from R.E.M.’s Green anchors a 25th-anniversary offshoot EP
By Josh Modell April 16, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Awkward.’s Molly Tarlov on love-hating Christina Perri’s “Jar Of Hearts”
By Marah Eakin April 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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Dust storms, Danny DeVito, and Blur: 10 things The A.V. Club saw at Coachella
By Marah Eakin April 15, 2013 | 5:24pm
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With “Why Can’t I Be You?,” The Cure found catharsis in song
By Marah Eakin April 15, 2013 | 5:00pm
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A new track shows off the darker side of a writer’s favorite MC
By Genevieve Koski April 12, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Skins! was the bongo album “that young America has been asking for”
By Kyle Ryan April 12, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Coachella 2013
By AV Club Staff April 12, 2013 | 2:30pm
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Remembering the unlikely track that united DOOM and Larry The Cable Guy
By Nathan Rabin April 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The one-and-done Postal Service album gets a deluxe anniversary party
By Josh Modell April 11, 2013 | 4:00pm
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With “I Stand Accused,” Elvis Costello And The Attractions made a copy of a cover
By Erik Adams April 10, 2013 | 5:00pm
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A metal song beloved by a writer with no interest in metal
By Josh Modell April 9, 2013 | 6:30pm
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The Oak Ridge Boys have some thoughts on Thatcher’s death
By Kyle Ryan April 9, 2013 | 3:19pm
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Los Angeles, now: What's new & fun in the city's pop-culture landscape
By AV Club Staff April 9, 2013 | 2:30pm
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In a decade where U2 got weird, Zooropa was the band’s weirdest effort
By Annie Zaleski April 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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Star Wars goes disco and other crassly commercial hits of the “Medley Age”
By Noel Murray April 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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Mark Arm of Mudhoney on 25 years of being the court jesters and knowing their limitations
By Sean O'Neal April 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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On “All Your Women Things,” Smog schools listeners on love, loss, and breasts
By Marah Eakin April 8, 2013 | 6:30pm
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Nick Cave is not in the business of telling people what to do
By Christopher Kompanek April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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There’s something I have to say to you: 16 songs with weird whispers
By Jason Heller April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Feel, feel, feel the heat of this song from Boogie Nights
By Kyle Ryan April 5, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Never forget: when Spock sang about Bilbo Baggins
By Genevieve Koski April 4, 2013 | 6:30pm
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Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba on why he hates Spin Doctors’ “Two Princes”
By Marah Eakin April 4, 2013 | 5:00pm
