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The Beatles: "Revolution 1 (Take 20)"

“Revolution 9” gets all the bad rap, but it’s “Revolution 1” that’s always irritated me: the Beatles’ one chance to...

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Jumbling Towers: "Kanetown"

At first superficial listen, Jumbling Towers could be said to fall into a few subsets of quirk-rock bands whose tendency...

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The Prodigy: "Omen"

The noughties haven’t quite been the kindest decade to the Prodigy. After the chart-topping success of The Fat of the...

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Last Days: The Safety of the North

Time for the first n5MD of the year—but before the meek start raising their arms up and fleeing in fear...

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U2: No Line on the Horizon

“Punk rock on Mars!”

“The Edge has reinvented the guitar!”

Those were simply but two of the numerous platitudes Bono whipped out...

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Golden Bear: Everest EP

The degree of difficulty in crafting a solid pop jam is ostensibly low—insert propulsive guitars, dreamy coda, and soaring hook...

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Dan Deacon: Bromst

Political theorist and literary critic Fredric Jameson classifies postmodernism and postmodern art as essentially schizophrenic. He’s not arguing that postmodern...

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Grizzly Bear: "Foreground"

In the last few years, as major labels crumble like wet sandcastles and the Hype Machine presages the Billboard charts,...

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The Wrens: "Pulled Fences"

New Jersey’s ladies-in-waiting for, let’s see, going on twenty years now, the Wrens have finally recorded their first new material...