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is a creative director at a CD/DVD manufacturer in NYC. He likes 90ies college radio and 70ies movies and sometimes books, but sometimes not.

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Karen Dalton: A Reluctant Voice, Rediscovered : NPR Music

Music – Karen Dalton's new album, Green Rocky Road, was 45 years in the making. The folk singer made the record at her cabin in Colorado with nothing but a 12-string guitar, a banjo and her voice. Joe Loop captured the recordings on a reel-to-reel tape deck in 1963.

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Twenty years of Babes, Girls, and Sleater-Kinney | AfterEllen.com

Music – Seattle-based record label Sub Pop Records is throwing a party for its 20th birthday. Unfortunately, some of its best acts from over the years will be missing. While Sub Pop has been female friendly in the past, it seems as if many of their great girl artists have left the business (at least for now.)

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Brooklyn Vegan Now Just Posting Photos of Random Cute Indie Girls

Music – Popular indie-music blog Brooklyn Vegan has long been a bastion of local concert news and photojournalism, providing minimal original writing but many high-quality shots of all our favorite artists rocking it out. But as the summer concert season kicks into full swing, we can't help but notice that the site's photos now have a disturbing new subjec

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Read Street: Atomic Books, Atomic Pop, it's all awesome

Books – By the end of the month, Atomic Books will be gone. But don't worry -- it's just moving down the street, to the bigger space currently occupied solely by Atomic Pop.

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Heaven knows our music's miserable now - News, Music - The Independent

Music – What with the miserable summer weather and seemingly endless threats of economic meltdown, people could be forgiven for feeling a little down in the dumps. All across the country wallets are being tightened, Benidorm forsaken for Bognor, M&S traded for Primark.

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globeandmail.com: ON THE STAND: A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF THE BEST MAGAZINE READS ON THE RACKS

Books – Last month Bob Dylan endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy for the U.S. presidency. Which proved a good thing for Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner when he sat down recently for a convo with the Democratic standard-bearer. Wenner, who's 62, has been a Dylanologist for decades, and, in interviews, has a tendency to ask a Dylan-themed quest

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Questions for Patti Smith - She Is a Punk Rocker

Music – At the age of 61, you are about to be newly lionized in the forthcoming "Patti Smith: Dream of Life," a documentary by Steven Sebring that took a decade to complete. The film has some wonderful footage of you and your family, but why are there no interviews with critics or fellow performers or scholars who could provide a context for your

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Lyle Lovett sells millions, earns nothing - Yahoo! News

Music – Lyle Lovett says he has "never made a dime" from album sales during his two-decade career, and hopes to rectify that situation when his contract expires.

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Mountain Goats' John Darnielle pens book Black Sabbath

Music – As part of the Mountain Goats, John Darnielle has developed a unique brand of short-story singer-songwriter music with references to Greek classics and the Bible, witty lines, occasionally dark humor, emotional insight, and absolutely genius cover songs.

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Stay Positive | Music Review | Entertainment Weekly

Music – Oh, brave new leaky world. When the Hold Steady's thrilling fourth album, Stay Positive, hit file-sharing services seven weeks before its release date, fans weren't sure whether to embrace it as an early Christmas gift or bemoan the leak as a blow to the group's breakthrough chances. Their label tried to turn some of the illicit downloads into lici

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Culture: 'The Wire' needs tightening up - Regulars, The New Review - The Independent

Television – The fifth and final season of The Wire Ã;¢ââ;;¬" the best American TV show ever broadcast, according to Jacob Weisberg, the editor of Slate Ã;¢ââ;;¬" will make its British debut on 21 July... on the little-known

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TheStar.com | Books | Overdue applause for comics pioneer

Books – Less well known Ã;¢ââ;;¬" and less well compensated Ã;¢ââ;;¬" are the artists who rendered Lee's fantasias, and sometimes served as unofficial co-writers, too. So there's a distinct air of redress in a couple of

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DCist: DCist Interview: Alejandro Escovedo

Music – It's tempting to call Austin, Texas country-rocker Alejandro Escovedo the Forrest Gump of indie rock, but he deserves to be associated with a much better movie. In 1978, his first band, San Francisco punkers The Nuns, opened the last-ever Sex Pistols show prior to the Pistols' brief mid-90s reunion. He was living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York Ci

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Guitar hero Nels Cline balances Wilco duties with improv trio | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Music – About 50,000 people got a new guitar hero at last year's Bonnaroo, watching Nels Cline Ã;¢ââ;;¬" playing with rock critical favorites Wilco Ã;¢ââ;;¬" toss one blistering solo after another out into the massive fi

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Soaring gasoline prices curtail musicians' touring plans 07/13/08

Music – Any bands that depend on driving from town to town to make a living and promote their music in smaller clubs are discovering that gasoline prices exceeding $4 a gallon are gobbling up what little financial wiggle room they had and putting a crimp in their style.

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