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Terrapin’s Allstars Rock Petaluma All Day Long to Keep Music in the Schools
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Terrapin’s Allstars Rock Petaluma All Day Long to Keep Music in the Schools

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 / 28 August 2017
“Outside of the corporate music business, it’s an amazing time for music,” Robinson said prophetically a couple days earlier in an interview on Sonoma’s NPR station KRCB.
A Connoisseur of Fine Things: Interim Thoughts on the Life and Career of Chubby Checker
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A Connoisseur of Fine Things: Interim Thoughts on the Life and Career of Chubby Checker

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 / 4 August 2017

While Bob Dylan was furiously writing “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” Chubby Checker was busy with his Trinidadian dance for the teenybopper diaspora.

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Prince’s Classic Finally Expanded: The Deluxe ‘Purple Rain’ Reissue
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Prince’s Classic Finally Expanded: The Deluxe ‘Purple Rain’ Reissue

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 / 30 June 2017
Over a year after Prince's stunning death, Warner Bros. offers the first ever expanded edition of the classic Purple Rain. How can something be so amazing and so frustrating at the same time?
Gary Stewart: Gary / Cactus and a Rose
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Gary Stewart: Gary / Cactus and a Rose

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 / 20 February 2017
Stewart sung with the stateliness of a drunk at the bar just one shot short of getting sloppy. He can be imposing one minute and heroic the next.
The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump
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The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump

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 / 9 February 2017
Did Shakespeare predict Trump? No. That's ridiculous. He just wrote a play about a thin-skinned, petty, self-aggrandising narcissist whose poor leadership drove an empire to ruin. Totally different.
Pickett Was Wicked Good and Wicked Bad: ‘In the Midnight Hour’
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Pickett Was Wicked Good and Wicked Bad: ‘In the Midnight Hour’

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 / 8 February 2017
Tony Fletcher's biography of the great soul singer is a vivid, detailed, and insightful portrait of a complex, talented, and often deplorable man.
From Hot Rods to Heartbreak: Bruce Springsteen and ‘Baby It’s You’
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From Hot Rods to Heartbreak: Bruce Springsteen and ‘Baby It’s You’

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 / 8 February 2017
Baby It’s You pushes past high school’s safe spaces to confront the audience with an imperfect world.
Sundance 2017: ‘The Polka King’ + ‘Band Aid’
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Sundance 2017: ‘The Polka King’ + ‘Band Aid’

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 / 27 January 2017
Two films about very different musical genres -- from polka to sweet crooning to punk-rock screaming -- take center stage at Sundance Film Festival 2017.
Is There Such a Thing as a Quintessentially Cleveland Film?
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Is There Such a Thing as a Quintessentially Cleveland Film?

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 / 12 January 2017
Cleveland’s film resume doesn’t equal even a Toronto or Vancouver, but it’s been hiding in plain sight behind some fairly notable films over the years.
Arundhati Roy and John Cusack Discuss What’s Rotten in the Political Left
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Arundhati Roy and John Cusack Discuss What’s Rotten in the Political Left

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 / 3 October 2016
Things That Can and Cannot Be Said assembles a cast of whistleblowers and dissidents to discuss the security state, the Lifestyle Wars, and the demise of the Left.
Legacy and Oblivion: 25 Years of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’
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Legacy and Oblivion: 25 Years of Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’

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 / 20 September 2016
Nevermind, while containing most of the hits for which Nirvana is celebrated is, of the four primary releases, the least emotionally and aesthetically complex.
Foreverland: An Interview with Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy
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Foreverland: An Interview with Neil Hannon of the Divine Comedy

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 / 12 September 2016
The Divine Comedy frontman discusses his latest record, cricket, composing operas, Gilbert & Sullivan, posthumous fame, musicals, his European tour, and "Catherine The Great".