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  Main Squeeze

  INSTRUCTION

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Vancouver’s sultan of sardonic satire, Geoff Berner, has written a book called How To Be an Accordion Player. Okay, it’s more of a booklet...

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  Poetic Soul

  BOOK

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  For 30 years, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been the most prominent figure in dub poetry, a radical combination of Jamaican patois, reggae rhyth...

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  Chuck D's A-Team

  COMIC

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Flavor Flav is already a cartoon, but now he’s a comic book too. The debut issue of Public Enemy, written by front-man Chuck D (with Adam W...

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  Pirate Party

  CONCEPT ALBUM

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  "It’s not often we get to do records like this anymore,” producer Hal Willner (far right) chuckles when asked about his latest production,...

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  Deep Throat

  COVERS

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  This disc is a total gimmick. How else to describe Re-covers (World Village), an album of songs by Joy Division, Hank Williams, Motörhead,...

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  Sneaker Pimps

  DVD

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Thanks to early b-boys, the sneaker industry has ballooned into a 26 billion dollar industry and Just For Kicks is the best documentary to...

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  Murder City Comes Alive

  FESTIVAL

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Tim Ford can’t be accused of underachieving. The Ford Plant booker and a like-minded collective have worked tirelessly to make the crumblin...

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  Pop Seen

  COMIC

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Music is magic — most any obsessive culture vulture wouldn’t question that supposition. But according to Britpop-weaned comics obsessives K...