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By the time Katy Perry released Teenage Dream in August 2010, the album had already given us the summer of…
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The American release of Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s second full-length album, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas…
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It seems every few months on Twitter another “four high school albums” prompt makes the rounds, inspiring…
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On April 5, 1986, French singer Serge Gainsbourg told Whitney Houston on live TV that he wanted to fuck her. Looking…
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In the fledging “alternative rock” world of 1990, the words “major-label debut” were greeted with a mix of…
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In the immediate months before Gang Of Four was about to make its incendiary debut album, Entertainment!, guitarist A…
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Starting with Hear It Is in 1986, Oklahoma City outfit The Flaming Lips had a pretty routine schedule in their…
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The arc of music history is long, allowing us to find new favorites in the past or imagine a time when some…
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In 1983, when much of the music world was turning toward “modern-sounding” synths and electronic music, one young…
Feb 12 2019
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One of the best things about old records is the liner notes. Pick up a jazz or pop LP of a certain vintage and…
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In 1976, filmmaker Barbara Kopple released Harlan County U.S.A., a documentary delving into Kentucky coal miners’…
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On her 2007 album How To Win!, stand-up comedian Maria Bamford tells a joke about her mother telling her she looks…
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Devo was finished. The quintet—brothers Jerry and Bob Casale and Mark, Bob, and Jim Mothersbaugh—had gotten about as…
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A baby and a breakup. The catalysts for one of the most celebrated albums of 1998 are of some the most difficult and…
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There are one-hit wonders and one-album wonders. There are musicians who consistently craft top-notch singles, but…
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When The A.V. Club put together an Inventory of George W. Bush-era political works that still hold up, we couldn’t…
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Feb 19 2018
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Throughout 1993, the Swedish quartet Ace Of Base was inescapable. Its international dominance began with “All That…
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Permanent Records is an ongoing closer look at the records that matter most.