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Margot Tells Tales

written by: Sarah Myers on July 8, 2011

“As Tall As Cliffs” is a rootsy song that discusses the woes of lying.

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Flash! Shit, What A Record

written by: Taylor Cowan on July 5, 2011

As you begin to wonder if Keith is beating the living hell out of a detuned guitar, another emerges right behind it filling out the sound and announcing its intent.

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The Hit That Should Have Been

written by: David B. Anthony on June 21, 2011

In a landscape where Green Day popularized neuroticism with tracks like “Longview” and “Basket Case,” it’s hard to understand why “Fireman” never found an audience.

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The Lost Art of the Single

written by: Ian Dick Jones on June 13, 2011

This single is Rabble Rabble showing they can do macroeconomics tripping on LSD while juggling knives.

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A Man, A Wire, A Statement

written by: Alex Bahler on June 7, 2011

The dude literally cut his teeth: A car accident in October 2002 left Kanye West with his jaw wired shut.

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What does S&M really stand for?

written by: Craig Bechtel on June 3, 2011

Rihanna clearly is invested fully in playing the part of the bondage queen, and the performance at the resurrected Billboard awards served as a natural extension of the similarly over-the-top music video.

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He Who Laughs Last, Laughs His FAO

written by: Aaron Pylinski on May 12, 2011

If there was ever need to get up and dance to something that isn’t the run-of-the-mill crap played on MTV, LMFAO is the ticket to such.

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Adele Rolls Deep

written by: Kevin Kern on April 27, 2011

Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” offers nostalgia at its best.

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David Byrne’s Ironic Dystopia

written by: Drew Hunt on April 22, 2011

Byrne describes scenes filled with “nothing but flowers,” a kind of oxymoron meant to illustrate society’s misguidance—as if flowers are a bad thing and entirely inconsequential to the glory of fast food and microwaves

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Still Fresh After All These Years

written by: David B. Anthony on March 2, 2011

Hip-hop’s identity is one that is built upon both musical style and the region in which it was created. There’s no way Wu-Tang Clan could have come out of Los Angeles, and N.W.A. could have never been founded in New York

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