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  The Four Secret Weapons of Spoon's 'Hot Thoughts'

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2017

  When Spoon emerged from a brief hiatus with their eighth album They Want My Soul in 2014, the band seemed remarkably re-energized. Approach...

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  Five Secret Keys to Jacques Greene's 'Feel Infinite'

  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2017

  It's not easy to flutter through club music — shimmying between house, techno, R&B and pop, with ubiquitous saccharine vocals anchoring the...

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  Four Facts You Should Know Before Seeing 'Kong: Skull Island'

  PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2017

  For his second movie, American director Jordan Vogt-Roberts made the jump most filmmakers only dream about, leaping from an indie Sundance...

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  Four Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About the Jesus and Mary Chain

  PUBLISHED Mar 9, 2017

  Jim and William Reid were two outsiders from East Kilbride, Scotland that shared both a bedroom and a dream: To become the unlikeliest pop...

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  Stephin Merritt Talks Memory, Moving, Mom and the Magnetic Fields' Epic '50 Song Memoir'

  PUBLISHED Mar 7, 2017

  Perhaps papa really was a rodeo. On the Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir, songwriter Stephin Merritt's memoir in verse, he mentions St. Thom...

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  Seven Things Father John Misty Wants You to Know About 'Pure Comedy'

  PUBLISHED Mar 2, 2017

  Father John Misty has previewed plenty of material from his forthcoming third album, Pure Comedy, so far: "Two Wildly Different Perspective...

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  Five American History Lessons From Folk Singer Rhiannon Giddens

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2017

  On her new album, Freedom Highway (out now on Nonesuch), folk singer (and former Carolina Chocolate Drops member) Rhiannon Giddens juxtapos...

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  An Essential Guide to Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2017

  The recorded output of Stephin Merritt — the songwriting brains behind the Magnetic Fields and an assortment of side-projects including Fut...