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Limp Wrist Manhandles Hardcore Punk

Ten years after they started, all-gay, all-straight-edge and all-hardcore band Limp Wrist is reactivated, rejuvenated and rededicated to the most corrosively potent fusion of sexuality and punk since (a) Gary Floyd of the Dicks' "Saturday Night at the Bookstore" and (b) Mukilteo Fairies' "Queer Enough For You?" Up front is......
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Souleyman Transcends Oriental Tropes

Before being elevated to international star status, Omar Souleyman was a relative unknown in Syria, playing wedding celebrations and khattabas (engagement parties) along with his keyboard player and MC and, when he could afford it, with a small ensemble of live musicians. He spent well over a decade playing local......
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Music to Pick Up/Download

QLUSTER Fragen In the beginning (circa 1969-71), there was Kluster, and the krautrock was good. After that there was Cluster, and masterminds Roedelius an...
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Music to Pick Up/Download

QLUSTER Fragen In the beginning (circa 1969-71), there was Kluster, and the krautrock was good. After that there was Cluster, and masterminds Roedelius an...
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Music to Pick Up/Download

HOLE Pretty on the Inside Plain has made a business of rescuing '90s albums from out-of-print (or CD-only) hell. Now it's time for a resurrection ...
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Two Sides of Brian Eno

Speaking of Brazil and David Byrne's collaborators, Brian Eno was on an inspirational trip to the land of caipirinha. "Recently I was in São Paulo, the most...
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The Soundtrack to Your Life

After almost 30 years, power-popper Paul Collins is still working too hard Paul Collins was the drummer in legendary L.A. band the Nerves, a power-pop trio that supported the Ramones — on a tour that they booked three minutes at a time through pay-phone scams — and changed the L.A......
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Music to Pick Up/Download

HOLE Pretty on the Inside Plain has made a business of rescuing '90s albums from out-of-print (or CD-only) hell. Now it's time for a resurrection ...
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Page Two: The Best of Mowest

The Motown label single-handedly put Detroit on the musical map, thanks to a series of astonishing soul singles released by Berry Gordy Jr.'s label (and i...