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Let's face it: The Nashville country music industry is one of the most despicable operations in show business today. While Nashville force-feeds America the glitz of Shania Twain and the grunt of Toby...
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Being on the phone with best-selling author and radio goddess Sarah Vowell is an experience akin to talking to that girl who sometimes sits by you in section and always seems to be so particularly fas...
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Tokyo, Japan: Uma Thurman slices through throngs of Yakuza, severing heads and literally painting the room red. Jerusalem, about 2,000 years earlier: Jesus Christ shakes in agony as Roman soldiers pou...
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In today's troubled musical climate, one wonders how to escape the choking morass of teenage weltschmerz, slipshod technical ability and half-baked political dissent so prevalent in live shows.
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On their new album, the Living Legends eight-member crew, whose home turf includes the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Europe and even Japan, manage to live up to their rather lofty name.
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Everything that I feared prior to listening to this six song EP came true. I accuse Crank Records of exploiting the celebrity status of Bright Eyes to push their "Coldplay from Omaha" act, Nena Dinova...
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A compilation intended to express outrage at George W. Bush ultimately falls short in the outrage department. As with any comp, this disc is hit-and-miss, especially since 18 of the 26 tracks were pre...
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1) Modest Mouse | Good News for People Who Love Bad News | Epic
2) Mirah | C'mon Miracles | K
3) Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Sony
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If nothing else, "Kill Bill" delivers what its title promises - Bill dies. His killer, the straw-haired gladiatrix known as the Bride, walks away, finally free of the wrath that drives her quest for r...
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They've existed for 22 years, putting out consistently high-quality underground pop albums and helping people see the glory of geeky humor. They've put music on answering machines for callers to dial ...
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Bonnie "Prince" Billy is back with his fourth studio album, which is comprised of covers from a group that he and his brothers started earlier in their careers, fittingly called the Palace Brothers.
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Modest Mouse is out for some serious money. Their latest release, Good News for People Who Love Bad News, is rife with radio-friendly tunes.
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NOFX's The War on Errorism hit the shelves May 2003, while Baghdad was still being shocked and awed. The band's most focused album in nearly a decade took some of the most vicious shots on record at P...
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Matt Skiba, one of the voices behind the eerie and emotional phenomena that is Chicago-based band Alkaline Trio, was sitting in a parking lot in the middle of the hellhole that is Riverside, Calif., w...
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
“Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“Wicked” by Gregory Maguire
“The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath
"The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
“1984” by George Orwell
“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding
