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  Re-making The Band

  Tribute

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

  Montreal’s Royal Mountain Band have scored a gig most Canadian groups would die for: playing the Band in Todd Haynes’ Bob Dylan biopic I’m...

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  Bump in the Night

  Film Festivals

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

  After debuting with an excitingly bloody program last year, Toronto After Dark Film Festival has a meaty line-up of zombies, Russian swordf...

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  Grimm Reality

  Comic

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

  Beginning his entertainment career at age five on Sesame Street, Percy Carey has lived an extraordinary life. He’s better known as rapper M...

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  Vintage Gun Collection

  Reissue

  PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2007

  At last, one of the crucial moments of modern European musical history is available to the mass audience it deserves — Peter Brötzmann’s sc...

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  Drawn To History

  Book

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  For comics fans who’ve struggled with the lack of respect the medium (not genre!) gets, Reading Comics (Da Capo Press) is a godsend book, a...

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  Investing In Music

  Stock Options

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  Tackhead, the infamous electro-dub-funk Anglo-American group that arose from the ashes of the Sugarhill Records house band, are seeking to...

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  Retro Tech

  Mixtape

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  Suck UK's designers demanded that modern technology dress retro. And damn it if a too-thin USB key — great for making digital mixtapes — do...

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  Fugazi’s Family Album

  Photography

  PUBLISHED Aug 20, 2007

  On September 3, 1987, Fugazi played their first show in Washington, DC and no group has so impacted underground culture since. Photographer...