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By Scott Duhamel, on March 7th, 2010 123 views  Crazy Heart’s well-traveled tale concerns itself with Bad Blake (Bridges), yet another country and western macho poet with a fistful of magical songs, heartsick and stumbling towards oblivion with a lungful of cigarette smoke and gut full of bourbon. Blake bounces from Bowling Alley stage to straight-up saloon gig, often puking mid-song, piloting himself with laid back charm or churlishness, almost broken with regret, yet nursing dreams about reversing his showbiz status. His shaky encounters with a trio of antagonists set the stage for an admirably unforced and neatly ambiguous tale of
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By Fred Shaw, on March 1st, 2010 131 views  Another writer once proclaimed Patti Smith to be the “Godmother of Punk,” and it would be tricky to dispute that she doesn’t deserve the title. Her 1975 debut album, the seminal Horses, uses an effective blend of well-crafted poetry and three chord guitar rock with beautifully placed feedback to set a standard for a generation of rockers. Bands such as R.E.M. and The Smiths, which fielded influential musicians of their own, have remarked on the impact of Smith’s music on their own
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By Jericho Brown, on February 26th, 2010 175 views  Poet Jericho Brown lays down the perfect mix tape to groove to, break up to, and dance lying down to.
Featuring tracks by Prince, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Tendy Pendergrass, and
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By Marion Winik, on February 4th, 2010 350 views  My skin is cellophane wrap; my heart is pinned smack in the middle. Squarish in shape, it catches the light. HELLO MY NAME MY IS
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By Mark Cutler, on January 24th, 2010 359 views  A Mix Tape from Mark Cutler, songwriter, singer, bandleader and guitarist
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By Wayne Cresser, on January 15th, 2010 811 views  Thomas Cobb discusses Hank Williams, Nabokov, and the near impossibility of
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By William Walsh, on January 10th, 2010 300 views  A mixtape of artists with long careers who continue to produce great songs.
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By Rick Moody, on December 25th, 2009 789 views  Rick Moody lays out the ultimate mixtape tracks to get us through the holidays.
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By Amity Bitzel, on December 22nd, 2009 685 views  Scribbling from the margins of that cultural framework is seventeen year old Jolene, a high school senior in Toledo, Ohio. The teenage Jolene is a girl that many of us have known, or dated, or perhaps even were; the kind of girl whose carefully cultivated gothy exterior functions a carapace for the anxious, artistic depressive
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By Liz Carter, on December 16th, 2009 596 views
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