Control
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Twenty Years Later – Jay Z’s Reasonable Doubt
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Twenty Years Later – Beck’s Odelay
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The Best Songs of 2016 (So Far)
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First Impressions: Radiohead’s A Moon Shaped Pool
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by: Josh Sczykutowicz An ode to a god amongst men, a bizarre, foreign, enigmatic force of nature… When David…
Remembering The Five Foot Assassin
by: Michael Shields With a heavy heart Across the Margin bids farewell to one of the founding members of…
Twenty Years Later – Underworld’s Second Toughest in the Infants
by: Chris Thompson Twenty years after its release, we take a look back at the broad artistic ambitions of…
Twenty Years Later: Tortoise’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die
by: Michael Shields A post-rock masterpiece by one of the genre’s best turns 20… I am often in a…
Bowie’s Final Alchemy
by: Chris Thompson and Michael Shields With a heavy heart Across the Margin bids farewell to a fearless innovator…
First Impressions: David Bowie’s Blackstar
by: Josh Sczykutowicz David Bowie’s latest album, Blackstar, shines defiantly… As elusive guitar loops swoop in to join haunting,…
Stone Temple Weiland
By: Chris Thompson The sudden passing of former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland stirs up memories of nostalgia…