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Popdose Flashback: The Furor Over 2 Live Crew

Jon Cummings March 9, 2009 3

He may have called for “a kinder, gentler nation,” but the first year of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, 1989, turned out to be Ground Zero for the Culture Wars. It was the year of

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Listening Booth: Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, “The Coral Sea”

Ken Shane June 18, 2008 3

From a place apart Morpheus, God of dreams, awakes The artist Robert Mapplethorpe died from complications of AIDS in 1989. According to his great friend, Patti Smith, “His mortal suffering was so profound that

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