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CD Review: Various Artists, “Daptone Gold”

Ken Shane November 25, 2009 5

At the beginning of this decade, sax player Neal Sugarman and bassist Gabriel Roth founded Daptone Records in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. They put together a studio in a small house there, and

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Unsolicited Career Advice for… Michael Stipe

Rob Smith April 20, 2009 1

With this week's installment of Unsolicited Advice, Rob Smith's uncle Don Skwatzenschitz becomes the latest in a long line of people to try and figure out what's wrong with R.E.M.'s career

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Mojo’s Cold Shot: Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens

Mojo Flucke April 16, 2009 3

Be still my soul. Lawd have mercy. When soul first came out, so many social issues made so many people so PO’d (civil rights, Vietnam, rioting in seemingly every urban area, drug abuse, the

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