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Even Though I Wasn't Watching Twin Peaks, I Was Basically Living There
Julee Cruise: 'Falling' + Bucktown, Pennsylvania + Swiping tapes + Glimpses of Lynch
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PartTimeLady
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I Didn't Know What To Say
Sharon Van Etten: ‘Seventeen’ + Baby Stuff (aka No-Baby Stuff) + Appointment After Appointment + Rocking Out (In The Car, Alone)
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Annie Bostrom
If'n You Don't Know By Now
Bob Dylan: 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right' + Breakups + Old friends + Jewish grandmas
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Howard Axelrod
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Somewhere Inside I Wanted To Smile Again
The Beatles: 'Dear Prudence' + Silence, secrets, and lies + The desire to shrink + The desire to live
Getting At The Shape Of Loneliness
Neil Young: 'Hey Hey, My My' + Going nowhere + Becoming something
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Sam Kahn
Conjured and Dismissed
Fiction (!) from Garth Greenwell. John Taverner: 'Westron Wynde Mass' + Staff/patient bonding in hospital + That sense only non-sense can convey
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Time Travel Is Painful
Oasis: 'Wonderwall' + Cairo to Hull (and back again) + Pangalactic Gargleblasters (on ice)
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Youssef Rakha
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Don't It Make You Feel Alive?
LCD Soundsystem: 'Get Innocuous!' + Dancing all night + Sparks + Rail whiskey + Sunrise and regret
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Cat Jones
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Mexico Rock City
Café Tacvba: 'Chilanga Banda'
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Pedro Gerson
Tell It And Think It And Speak It And Breathe It
Bob Dylan: 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' + being 14 + ugly basement remodels circa 1970
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Leslie Carr
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Suddenly I Could See A Future
Nicola Miller + The Beatles: 'I Will' + Our parents' cassettes + Our kids' lullabies + Chasing vocal resonance control
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Self-Deprecation of the Aging Horndog
Ed Park + The Who: 'You Better You Bet' + Taping pop from Buffalo AM radio in 1981 + MindMeld 2052
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