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Masked and Anonymous: Bob Dylan in the 21st Century
After almost a half century of constant, electric, and yes, sometimes bewildering change, it seems that Bob Dylan has finally settled down.
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Music Reviews: Roy Orbison - Lonely and Blue and In Dreams
"With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera." - Bob Dylan
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Fall 2006 TV Party
Part One of the Modern Pea Pod's look at the Fall 2006 TV season.
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Ride This Trane
Zach Hoskins comes to terms with a jazz monolith... or two.
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CD Review: OutKast - Idlewild
An album which will send most listeners scurrying to find their copies of prior - and better - OutKast records.
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DVD Review: Double Indemnity (1944)
No discussion of film noir is complete without Billy Wilder's 1944 masterpiece Double Indemnity.
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Concert Review: Man Man at the Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Park, Chicago, 7.29.06
Dressed in white shorts and white shirts and sporting white and red face paint, they begin to blow, hit, pinch their instruments.
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DVD Review: Glenn O'Brien's TV Party - The Halloween Show, October 30th, 1979
What I surprise to find out that the hip cat New York scene could be such likeable nerds.
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Music Review: Mason Jennings - Boneclouds
You're a robot if Mason Jennings' old-fashioned charms don't draw you in.
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Music Review: M. Ward - Post-War
Moments throughout this record are bigger than speakers, headphones, living rooms, or LPs.
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