Dre’s 2001 still blazin’

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Dre’s 2001 still blazin’

March 03 — While I was in Washington, D.C., in 2001 I went to buy a new CD. I wandered over to the Sam Goody and saw the newest Dr. Dre album on sale for $8.99. I snatched the album off the shelf and quickly paid the cashier.

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Massive Attack’s 100th Window into trip-hop

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Massive Attack’s 100th Window into trip-hop

February 03 — Synthetic, repetitive, claustrophobic, frozen, repressive, droning, soulless, sterile - In the world of music reviews, these adjectives represent the eight notes in the pejorative scale. But these are also the words I would reach for to describe one of my favorite albums: 100th Window by Massive Attack.

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On the Record: Jawbreaker’s ‘Dear You’

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On the Record: Jawbreaker’s ‘Dear You’

December 03 — Unlike Jawbreaker’s Dear You, even in the year 2000 assholes were easy to find.

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