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Deep Cuts: Songs of Thanks
Here it is, the one week of the year that we pay lip service to being thankful for all of the stuff we took for granted the other 51 weeks.
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On Diffuser: 25 Years Ago — Bad Religion Sharpen Their Edge ‘Against the Grain’
Hardcore punk can get monotonous. That’s why you need a little Bad Religion in your stacks.
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On Diffuser: 30 Years Ago – The Jesus and Mary Chain Dish Out ‘Psychocandy’
Here’s one of the great post-punk albums of the mid-80s.
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On Ultimate Classic Rock: 30 Years Ago – Frank Zappa Responds to the PMRC on ‘Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention’
The biggest political controversy of my teenaged life was the PMRC, and that made Zappa the biggest hero of my adolescence.
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The True Meaning of Thanksgiving (It’s Not What You Think)
Thanksgiving mattered for one reason when I was a kid, and it’s not what you think.
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On Diffuser: 22 Years Ago – Nirvana Unplug For MTV and Create Another Landmark Album
Great albums don’t usually come out of TV appearances. Nirvana changed that.
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On Diffuser: 15 Years Ago – The New Pornographers Debut With ‘Mass Romantic’
The New Pornographers’ debut is a really special beast.
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Choose and Defend: The Refugee Dilemma
You walk into a drab, brown government office and see what looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger seated behind the desk. He wears a leather jacket and sunglasses.
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Throw Beck Thursday: The True Tale of Ricky Brent
Ricky Brent was my first friend in South Carolina. My behind the house neighbor, a short path through the kudzu and dense loblolly pines, our friendship was inevitable. He was a big boy, tall and heavy, with a drinker for a father and an Irish mother. Once while trying on a gentleman persona I knocked…
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On Diffuser: Cover Stories — Neutral Milk Hotel, ‘In the Aeroplane Over the Sea’
What’s up with the lady with the drum for a head?
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