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"The Brutalist," Adrien Brody, the Band, and Lester Bangs
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Wilbert Harrison's “Let’s Work Together" was a social vision, it was about the country—it was about whoever heard it.
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Special Bob Dylan–Adjacent Edition! Guest Starring Harry Belafonte, Robbie Robertson, and Buddy Holly!
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“Pure and Easy” has such warmth, it’s such a vision of wholeness, the world in balance, without ever ignoring danger and risk and failure and even bad…
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Alienation, Misunderstanding, Discovery, and Revelation, Featuring Jeremy Allen White, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Figgis, and Sonny Til
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