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music New Adam Schlesinger tribute album features covers by Rachel Bloom, Charly Bliss, Sarah Silverman, Nada Surf, and many many more Thom Dunn

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science fiction Original band does wonderful isolation version of the Cowboy Bebop theme song Gareth Branwyn

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new york city A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more Gareth Branwyn

COVID-19 Celebrating the mad genius of music producer Hal Willner, who has died, likely of COVID-19 Gareth Branwyn

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music Shut-in sounds: 33 of the best industrial albums Gareth Branwyn

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Science Scientists: Drug hippos are… good? Seamus Bellamy

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