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All That Junk by Katrina Prow
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Maybe We'll Meet at a Club and Fall So Deeply in Love by Kristine Langley Mahler
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There Is Nothing To Be Sad by Brad Efford
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The Ecstasy of Saints Camilla and Nicholas by Oscar Mardell
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The Essential Whiteness of One Hit Wonders by J. Nicholas Geist
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At the Crack of the Whip: On Devo, Freedom, and Other Misinterpretations by Cameron Carr
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Notes on Endurance and T'Pau's "Heart and Soul" by Katrina Prow
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A Friend I Know Called Radio: The JAM Song by Jessica Forcier
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When Genres Collided by Greg Dean Schmitz
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Jermaine Stewart, AIDS, and the Anti-Sex Backlash of the 1980s by Cheryl Graham
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A Song that Lasts by Mark Athitakis
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Wanna Do Everything by J. W. Bonner
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Let's Give It To Them Right Now: Jim Ruland
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Can't Figure Out the Bag I'm In by J. W. Bonner
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Bad Faith: On Limp Bizkit and George Michael by Lisa Mangini
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End My Life: on Marvin Gaye and the Slits by J. W. Bonner
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A New New England by Mark Butler
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Caught In a Trap: on Elvis’s and Fine Young Cannibals’ “Suspicious Minds” by J. W. Bonner
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Begin to Pretend to Pray: Eddie Hazel’s “California Dreamin’” by Will Hansen
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Some Words Wrong: The Accidental Power of Sturgill Simpson’s “In Bloom” by Jason Nafziger
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There Will Not Be Dancing in the Street by Elana Levin
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Entering the Locked Room: Brooke White on Lucy Dacus’s “Dancing in the Dark”
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No Rules, No Limits: Robert Puccinelli on Patti Smith’s “Hey Joe”
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Nobody Does It Better: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Cover Bands, and Connection by Emily Costa
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I Love It More Than I Did: Prince, Crooked Fingers, and “When You Were Mine” by Kim Z. Dale
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In My Housedress, Don’t You Know Who I Am? by Kristine Langley Mahler
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Weights & Pulleys: Michael A. Van Kerckhove on Cry Cry Cry
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We Start and End as One: Feist and the Constantines covering Islands in the Stream
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The Low-Fi Covers of Linda Smith by Chelsea Spear
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Elizabeth Hart Bergstrom: Dreaming of Life on Mars
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Amorak Huey on Patriotism & Manliness in the Heart of Dixie
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Katherine Robb: "Somewhere Far Away": Grunge and Me
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Matt Vadnais on the The Best and Worst Sonic Youth Shows
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Against Kool: Martin Seay on "Bull in the Heather"
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Too Cool for This Planet / by Emily Costa
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"I Don't Feel Like Nothin' But a Good Time": How Grunge Didn't Kill Glam by Amy Rossi
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The Antithesis of Toto: a Conversation w/ Jonathan Poneman
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It's Not a TV Studio, Josh: a Grunge Video Taxonomy by Will Hansen
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If I Had It All Again, I'd Change It All: Michael Sheehan on "Machinehead," Summer 1995
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Joe Bonomo on Van Halen's "Panama"
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Exponential Badness by Brendan Hogan
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Kiss on My Lips by Megan Culhane Galbraith
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Against Midnight by Ander Monson
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On the Badness of John Lennon's "Imagine" by David Turkel
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Ringo Starr is Thinking Young by Susannah Clark
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The Gold Standard: Tim Parzyck on Bela Lugosi
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If I Jerk the Handle You'll Die in Your Dreams: Martin Seay on the Goth Adjacency of Scott Walker
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Goth-ish: Three Covers by Marilyn Manson, by Oscar Mardell
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The Dark Underlord by Aurelie Sheehan
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Sound and Vision, Signifying Nothing by Cheryl Graham
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The Old Ways in the Darkness by Joshua Borgmann
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I Don't Know If I Am Real Without You by Kristine Langley Mahler
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"I'm Hardcore, but I'm Not that Hardcore" by Lela Scott MacNeil
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The Hair in Hair Metal by Janine Annett
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Rockin' for the One Who is the Rock
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Metal Boys by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan
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If This Were an Argument by Will Hansen
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In Defense of Hair Metal by Andy Segedi
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Come March, Let's Crüe by A E Weisgerber
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It Pulls Something Out of Me: a Conversation with Jacob Slichter of Semisonic
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The Condition in Which We Deny Our Womanhood by T Clutch Fleischmann
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Brandon Alva, The Hammer People Need Towels
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Laura CJ Owen on Billy Ray Cyrus; Steve Wasserman on Stereo MCs
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Dustin Parsons on Tonic; Aaron Smith on Natalie Imbruglia
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Sean Rys on Edwin McCain; Denry Willson on Snow
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Matthew Vadnais on Sophie B Hawkins; Drew Burk on Fastball