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  "Windows" Could Be girlpuppy's "Silver Springs"

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  PUBLISHED Jan 2, 2025

  "Glass houses cliché," I type into the Google search bar, amazingly unable to remember the exact verbiage of a phrase that has always...

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  'A Complete Unknown' Offers the Same Old Side of Bob Dylan

  Directed by James Mangold

  PUBLISHED Jan 2, 2025

  Biopics, particularly music biopics, often follow a hollow recipe that, in recent years, has begun to sour, with a slew of derivative...

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  Take That, Biopics! 'Better Man' Bests the Formula

  Directed by Michael Gracey

  PUBLISHED Dec 25, 2024

  What makes 'Better Man' a distinctive music biopic among the seemingly endless sea of the subgenre is not the fact that director Michael...

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  The Weather Station Is Shadowboxing Herself on "Body Moves"

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  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2024

  On "Body Moves," Tamara Lindeman is shadowboxing, dodging the swings and fakeouts of a form in rebellion. The latest taste of the luminous...

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  The Tragically Hip and Feist's "'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken'" Carries the Spirit — If Not the Sound — of Gord Downie

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  The Tragically Hip have wisely not reunited since singer Gord Downie's tragic death in 2017, but they closest they came was doing a...

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  Montreal's Graham Steinman Communes with the Sublime on 'migration's only natural'

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  Being from the middle of nowhere doesn't necessarily mean you feel connected to nature in a way others don't. On the contrary, people like...

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  Julien Baker & TORRES Make the Country Pivot Fresh Again on "Sugar in the Tank"

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  I don't know about you, but I'm a bit fatigued by the pivot to country. Country music's sounds and aesthetics have been infiltrating...

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  Netflix's 'A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter' Offers Barely Enough Merriment

  Directed by Sam Wrench

  PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2024

  Sabrina Carpenter spent 2024 exceeding expectations in every way. At the beginning of the year, she was just another ex-Disney kid trying...