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If best-selling albums had been books instead. Many more here.

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Leslie Banks is the shit in this stone classic of the trapped-in-a-crazy-man’s-castle genre. (YouTube upload by SuperVintageCinema.)

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. . . to Factory Records c. 1984. (YouTube upload by Ikon Video Bank. More on Kickboy, aka Claude Bessy, here.)

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After a 2-month hiatus, I thought I’d take this moment to re-enter the blogosphere with a short record review. I’ve been listening to an advance copy of Money & King’s debut album, Across the Cul-de-Sac, this week, and I dig it enough to think it merits a post. (The record comes out officially on February […]

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Top Cool Jazz cat Dave Brubeck has flown to the big gin joint in the sky at the ripe old age of 91. Here’s a clip of him and his Quartet in 1964, gliding ethereally through “Take Five.” (YouTube upload by improvisedsolo.)

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Wrist Corsage (1996), by Lisa Yuskavage. Oil on canvas. MoMA, New York.

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The immortal Captain, at his late-60s peak. (YouTube upload by FunkensteinJr.)

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