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Popdose Flashback ’90: Sonic Youth, “Goo”

Michael Fortes July 27, 2010 8

Though Sonic Youth are the quintessential indie rock group, they actually spent 18 years on a major label. Michael Fortes looks back at the start of it all

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Popdose Flashback ’90: Public Enemy, “Fear of a Black Planet”

Mike Heyliger March 15, 2010 9

Twenty years after this Public Enemy classic was released, Mike Heyliger reflects on its legacy -- and laments mainstream hip-hop's turn away from social consciousness

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Sugar Water: Black and/or White

Robert Cass June 30, 2009 18

Writer-producer-director Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing opened in theaters on June 30, 1989. “White people still ask me why Mookie threw the [trash] can through the window” at the film’s climax, he recently

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Mix Six: “Guns! Guns! Guns!”

Ted Asregadoo July 1, 2008 15

DOWNLOAD THE FULL MIX HERE Okay, Mix Six fans, if you’re also a reader of the Pop Politico posts you’ll know that I’m not a gun advocate when it comes to home defense.  But

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