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		<title>Favorite music of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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I can&#8217;t even pretend to offer a comprehensive list anymore. When I was a newspaper music critic, I tried to keep up with most everything. But life gets in the way, and these days I find myself much less willing to give things a chance. Hook me immediately or be ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Dylan&#8217;s strange recipe leads to gooey middle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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As I have read through Howard Sounes&#8217; excellent Bob Dylan biography, Down the Highway, I have found myself compelled to listen to and explore all facets of Dylan&#8217;s catalog. Easy enough (and pleasant enough) to do with the canon, and certainly so with his more recent work, but what about ...]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Finn&#8217;s The View is worth the cost</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always admired Tim Finn&#8216;s music, usually more than I&#8217;ve actually wanted to listen to it. Loved his work with Split Enz, thought his contributions to Crowded House gave the band a needed shot of variety at the right time, and his work with Neil in the Finn Brothers is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sebadoh a blast of nostalgia and little more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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It was two weeks ago today that I saw a show by the reunited Sebadoh. I really enjoyed the show and fully expected to post something the next day. Alas, two weeks later, I realize the show was kind of a singular moment. I expected it to fuel a renewed ...]]></description>
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		<title>Jayhawks sound like themselves &#8212; sort of &#8212; on Mockingbird Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking with a friend about the new Jayhawks album, Mockingbird Time, we lamented that while it sounded good &#8212; and certainly like a Jayhawks record should &#8212; the songs weren&#8217;t memorable. It has surface appeal, but it lacked the depth that would make either of us pull it off the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Two Times Intro captures intimate side of Patti Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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		<title>If R.E.M. goes away, will we miss them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Kenyon</dc:creator>
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It long has been fashionable among rock snobs to declare that R.E.M.&#8217;s period of relevance ended somewhere around 1987&#8242;s Document; a charitable few give the band a few more years, declaring it was Bill Berry&#8217;s departure in 1996. Anyone who compares the five albums the band made after his exit with ...]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Case Crime&#8217;s Charles Ardai: The Monday Interview</title>
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&#160;
Note: To read an interview with Lawrence Block about his first original book for Hard Case Crime, Getting Off, visit our sister site, GriftMagazine.com.
For those of us who have become rabid fans of Hard Case Crime books, the past year has been a long one. The series left its previous ...]]></description>
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