Essential Guide

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  An Essential Guide to Bob Mould

  PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2016

  It would be easy to fill a list of Bob Mould's essential work just with Hüsker Dü releases. The Minneapolis power trio remain massively inf...

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  An Essential Guide to Primal Scream

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2016

  There is a great struggle that comes with trying to decide the best work by a band that constantly reinvents itself like Primal Scream have...

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  An Essential Guide to Sloan

  PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2016

  This year marks the 25th anniversary of the formation of Sloan, the Halifax-turned-Toronto power-pop quartet. If you told them in the early...

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  An Essential Guide to "Weird Al" Yankovic

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2016

  A topical satirist of "Weird Al" Yankovic's ilk is rare enough, but considering he's been relevant and popular for almost 40 years, he's in...

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  An Essential Guide to David Bowie

  PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2016

  This is a very different piece than it was on the night of January 10, when I was putting the finishing touches on it.   When I started wri...

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  An Essential Guide to Creation Records

  PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2016

  No independent record label enjoyed the kind of success that Creation Records did throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hold its discography up t...

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  An Essential Guide to Canadian Horror

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2015

  Really, this guide could have consisted of five David Cronenberg films, considering the footprint he's left on Canadian horror cinema. The...

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  An Essential Guide to Richard D. James

  PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2015

  Some say he lives in a bank with a recording studio in the vault; some say he drives a tank, pulls song ideas from lucid dreams, makes his...