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Actually, not "and more." But, trust me, what's here is plenty.
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We’re not living in a golden age of much. But at least the kitsch renaissance—which started too-clever-ly (by
Laugh In The Dark: Aimee Mann & Ted Leo's The Both at 10
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Endtime Buddies: Notes on Lungfish and Bonnie Prince Billy, In the Approximate Spirit of One of The Longer Lungfish or Bonnie Prince Billy Songs
Hello all, Today is my birthday and I'm taking full advantage of it by being as wildly self
Crisis On Swiftinite Earths: Notes On Tortured Poets Dept.
As far as subsisting in a simulated reality goes, there are worse matrices to toil under than this one built
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The Paranoid Style is the title of a 1964 essay I haven’t read but have read enough tweets about
The Goop Hits The Grinch: Music Journalism May Have to Write Its Own Obituary For Free
At the end of January, overnight, with only eight years of buildup, Pitchfork went from being “The Most Trusted Voice
Risk Is Art: 50 Good Albums from 2023
So, I couldn’t make it through the boygenius album, but thought they were absolutely fab on SNL. I love
