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Music Scene: “The Final Countdown” by Jonathan Loucks I’ve always wanted my own theme song. Wouldn’t it be cool to walk around town, decked out…
Then It Hit Me: The Grateful Dead I was 21 and I loved punk music and I hated the Grateful Dead. I was at home…
The Sad End of Something Really Not All That Great to Begin With by John J. Stazinski illustration by Nancy Bach WHEN WE opened for…
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Pop Will Save Us by Adrienne So illustration by Jake Watling I LIKE Billboard Top 50 music. “Maneater,” by Nelly Furtado: She’s singing about me.…
Then It Hit Me: A Wonderful and Frightening Mix Tape by Frances Reade Every American should be required to visit Detroit at some point, to…
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