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Les Claypool & Co: The Power of Music (Revisited)
I will go ahead and answer my own question (posed the other month, HERE). Based...
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The face this guy makes when he listens to “Here Comes the Flood” by Peter...
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Sorry, Charlie: On Art and Extremism (Revisited)
OF COURSE RELIGION IS the problem. For anyone who, understandably, would say it’s a political...
Led Zeppelin on Led Zeppelin (Revisited)
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Victory and Sorrow: Bright Moments from Three Masters (Revisited)
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O’Connor and Coltrane: Saints of American Art
i. I never, until this year, made the explicit connection between John Coltrane and Flannery...