Four Walls Down
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  • December22nd

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    By Clint Wells

    The world never really got over Michael Jackson’s strangeness, and while I think I can sympathize with that, it also saddens me.

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    Listen: The Way You Make Me Feel

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  • December15th

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    By Jacob Tubbs

    And then, out of nowhere, Cracker did what they always do: they came back. They slouched their way right out of my speakers, made me pay attention again. Made me feel Cracker soul again.

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    Listen: One Fine Day (Live at the Highline Ballroom)

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  • November4th

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    By Tony Lombardo

    Steely Dan creates a logic where Thelonious Monk and Motown are one, where slickness somehow can mean the opposite of crass commerciality, and where Duke Ellington and Keith Richard share a cab to the Bowery in search of a score.

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    Listen: Aja

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