Jul 01, 2013
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Ben Folds Five continues to celebrate the end of its 13-year hiatus with the release of this compilation of live cuts from the 2012 tour. The record showcases the band’s magnetic precision, which, as pristine as it is, can never translate completely from the stage to a pair of iPod earbuds.
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Jun 30, 2013
Books
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In this memoir, Jo Wood, ex-wife of Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, documents her life, most of which is spent side-by-side with the Rolling Stones guitarist.
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Jun 30, 2013
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Season 8 is set to be the last for Showtime’s Dexter. Probably a good thing, too. Dexter has had some tremendous peaks during its run—the gripping first season, John Lithgow as the Trinity Killer, and the gut-punching Season 4 finale, to name a few—but it’s also spent a little too much time slogging around in a mess of uninspired plots and redundant conflicts.
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Jun 28, 2013
Comic Books
Issue #45 - Winter 2013 - Phoenix
Heck is Zander Cannon’s story of a man with a portal to Hell itself in his house. Hector Hammarskjöld (aka “Heck”) uses this portal as a business, with the idea of venturing into the underworld to retrieve or deliver messages to lost loves or other absent souls.
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Jun 28, 2013
Music
Rose Windows
Seattle septet Rose Windows is a throwback in the most exciting way. It’s not exactly prog, but with guitar, bass, drums, piano, organ, and flute, the songs on the band’s debut echo groups like King Crimson, Jethro Tull, and Peter Gabriel-era Genesis in the most successful and invigorating way.
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Jun 27, 2013
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At the end of a really long day, sometimes we settle for a Big Mac at the drive-thru. And most of us have, at some point, dated a dud because it takes a lot of work to find a winner. We’re only human. But why settle for vapid party songs when they’re not even catchy enough to make a single toe tap?
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Jun 26, 2013
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Way back in 2007, Italians Do It Better—the dance label curated by Mike Simonetti and Johnny Jewel—released their first After Dark compilation, kick-starting a conversation that was nearly as emblematic of that year’s blog noise as were think pieces on Radiohead’s pay-what-you-want sales policy. Disco was alive and doing the hustle again, at least as far as indie rockers were concerned.
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Jun 26, 2013
Music
Tyler, the Creator
A lot has already been said about Tyler, the Creator‘s latest LP, Wolf, and about his propensity to be politically incorrect while simultaneously surprising critics with real depth and sensitivity.
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CBS, Mondays 10/9 Central
Jun 24, 2013
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Right out of the gate, there’s no way Under the Dome, a new sci-fi drama miniseries for CBS, can miss. Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Under the Dome is the story of Chester’s Mill, Maine, a familiar King-ian small town, contending with an impenetrable clear dome that suddenly and completely surrounds its city limits, leaving those on either side stuck and unable to cross.
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