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Music[Fri, 26.Jun.09]Wilco: Wilco (The Album)While Wilco (The Album) has its strong moments, it does not have many innovative ones. For a band whose reputation was built on being sonic pioneers, this can only be perceived as something of a letdown. Regina Spektor: FarRegina Spektor returns with a new album that's darker than Begin to Hope, but just as poppy. Bob Dylan: New Morning / The Basement Tapes / Before the Flood / Dylan & the DeadThis set of CD reissues is welcome for The Basement Tapes alone where it now possesses a clarity that belies its humble and informal origins. R.E.M.: Reckoning (Deluxe Edition)Reckoning was a clear-eyed document of a young band energized by the road and each other. Warbringer: Waking Into NightmaresWarbringer's second album might seem like the same old thrash, but they continue to improve by leaps and bounds. Weinland: Breaks in the SunThis Portland indie band's second album proves they can wing it in the studio and walk away with an album on par with their more calculated material. Short Takes
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The Edge of Change: The Most Memorable Albums of 1999
By PopMatters Staff [29.Jun.09] :. PopMatters is on our one-week summer publishing break, except for film and blogs. We return to our full publishing schedule on Monday, July 6. Meanwhile, explore the music of 1999 as we celebrate our 10th anniversary. [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5]
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Pickin' Down the Line: Five Days in March: Uncle Tupelo’s Quiet Revolution
By Bob Proehl [26.Jun.09] :. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy may have left country behind, but in 1992, he helped redefine the sound of alt-country.
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Books[Fri, 26.Jun.09]:. Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCannThis maddening new novel is cinematic, set in New York City in the midst of its slide into near-complete dysfunction. :. Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African WritingPerhaps the strongest theme here is that there’s no singular “voice of Africa”, no overarching cosmology to unify the continent’s literature -- and that’s a great thing. |
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DVDS[Fri, 26.Jun.09]:. Dominick Dunne: After the PartyDominick Dunne’s own story has all the requisite tragic-romantic elements of any personality he’s written about. :.
Une Femme MarieeAn erudite, somewhat autobiographical, handsome and twisted examination of female infidelity. |
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