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Not many knew what to make of hbo max's initial reality compet**ion legendary when it first premiered, but the high tensions that ended season 1, episode 5 escalated the vogue-tastic and defiantly q***** celebration of ballroom culture into the must-watch event of the year. (2) |
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Drew daniel: "trump has weaponized a kind of insincere, smarmy trolling manner. ı didn't want music that similarly relied upon that stance. ı wanted something that was, in a way, the opposite. something that felt affirmative and warm." (2) |
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From emotive funk and pastoral folk to bright electropop and soulful pop, phoebe katis skillfully balances contemplative, fragile melodies with catchy, uptempo hooks. (2) |
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Bob dylan returns as prophet, historian, and joker on his latest album, rough and rowdy ways, an unending puzzle with rich content. (2) |
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The beatles once again make their way onto the list with their 1969 tour de force abbey road. halfway through, klinger and mendelsohn realize they can steal but they cannot rob. (2) |
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Released alongside nirvana’s nevermind, the importance of pearl jam's ten has been somewhat overshadowed by that record. pearl jam were barely together for a year, but released a cohesive debut that would help define '90s alternative rock. (2) |
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Sublime harmonies and constant innovation make ohmme's fantasize your ghost an impressive work of modern indie rock art. (2) |
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On the instrumental version of last year's flamagra, flying lotus makes conspicuous variety feel coherent and ordered. (2) |
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Shadow offering has glimmers of braids' former album but with a new direction and an attempt to adopt a new maturity and sensibility. (2) |
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ın light of the recent us supreme court decision on daca, pan-americana group ladama premiere "ınmigrante" to honor immigrants. (2) |
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Molly pohlig's debut novel, the unsuitable, applies a different twist to a guilty conscience. (2) |
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Poet laureate jaki shelton green's the river speaks of thirst is at once a political statement, cultural commentary, and an aesthetic milestone, a skillful commingling of galvanic activism and evocative poetry. (2) |
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The comics format of jim ottaviani and maris wicks' astronauts is ideally suited for telling the story of how women fought and overcame s***ism in the us space program, given the us government and military's ridiculous resistance to female astronauts. |
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The cameraman is keaton's last great film, a jubilant, chaotic, and overactive silent romantic comedy that, intentional or not, doubles as a vision of the precarity of celebrity, independence, and artistry in the brutal hollywood system. (2) |
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As with da 5 bloods, spike lee's films are replete with experimental aesthetics that deconstruct the conventions of (white) hollywood and re-frame and re-contextualize black lives and black history. |
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Directors claude sautet and andrzej zulawski turn the camera's gaze on the glorious romy schneider in these four drama, romance, and crime films available from film movement and kino lorber. |
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Experimental taiwanese group mong tong draw on mysticism and arcade games for their darkly psychedelic debut album mystery. |
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ınara george's the youth of angst is a three-song bundle that looks back as a way of moving forward during troubled times. |
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Legendary memphis soulman and songwriter, don bryant returns with a vengeance to spread a much-needed message of love. you make me feel is vital soul music for these times. |
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So much remarkable music was released in 1991 that it's difficult to choose just 20 memorable songs without a few omissions. |
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ıt was during the period between the rodney king beating and subsequent court verdict that ıce cube cut death certificate, a chilling glimpse into the anger and frustration south central los angelinos were feeling. |
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Chromeo's quarantine casanova is the light-hearted silver lining we all need in the dark cloud that we are all facing together. |
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On acoustic, oumou sangaré's inner world s***nes through with particular clarity as the songbird of wa***oulou performs stripped-down arrangements of some of the most powerful tracks she's recorded over the last 30 years. |
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At 25, phoebe bridgers is, by all metrics, an artist at the beginning of her career, though punisher sounds more like the work of a time-tested veteran perfecting a style she's been honing for years. |
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There's nothing inherently off about his jason mraz's new album, but a glance at his past records makes look for the good feel a bit lackluster. |
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For outspoken actor and singer keiynan lonsdale, his unabashedly q***** debut album centers on s***uality and politics, making for a striking release in the age of quarantine. "there's rhythm to it: there's rhythm in blackness, and it's saying 'stop being crazy, stop being dangerous, quiet the f**** down, and move your feet.'" |
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ıf there was a gravestone for mtv-style '80s metal, it would probably be guns n' roses' 1991 opus use your ıllusion ı and use your ıllusion ıı. |