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Introduction | |
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"Beethoven's Kapow" New York Magazine | |
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"Keep Tickin and Tockin Work It All Around the Clock"Exist Yesterday | |
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"The Grandest Duke" New York Review of Books | |
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"Growing Up Gaga" New York Magazine | |
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"The Mothership, lost in space" Washington Post | |
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"Excerpt from How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop" NPR.org | |
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"Curiosity Slowdown" Frieze | |
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"Meet Your #operaplot 2010 Winners" The Omniscient Mussel | |
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"A Pop Critic Takes on the Ring: Part 1, Das Rheingold" Los Angeles Times | |
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"Word" The New Yorker | |
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"Why We Fight #5: Why Risks are Risky" Pitchfork Media | |
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"Tour Diary Day Four: Rock and Roll is Dead" Amyandronicus.tumblr.com | |
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"Jetlagged Manifesto" Think Denk | |
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"Making Pop for Capitalist Pigs" Chicago Reader | |
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"The Underground Rises" Frontline's Tehran Bureau | |
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"Pantha du Prince" Groove Magazine | |
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"Wormrot, Defeatist, Mutant Supremacy, Psychic Limb and Curandera-October 3rd-The Acheron, Brooklyn" Sunyata: Mindful of Metal | |
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"Giant Steps: The Survival of a Great Jazz Pianist" The New York Times | |
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"William and the Science of Global Pop Domination" Rolling Stone | |
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"Notes from a Wedding" Washington Post | |
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"For the Record" Washington Post | |
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"The Curious Case of Nicki Minaj" Out | |
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"Gasping, But Somehow Still Alive': The Persistence of Meat Is Murder" Stereogum | |
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"Nashville Skyline: Searching for the Heart of Country CMT News | |
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"The Honeymooners" Oxford American | |
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"The Long War" The New Yorker | |
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"The 'Thriller' Diaries" Vanity Fair | |
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"The Runaways: Wild Thing" LA Weekly | |
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"The Fun Stuff" The New Yorker | |
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"Direction Nowhere" At Length | |
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"I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free: The Secret Diary of Nina Simone" The Believer | |
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"Darkness Invisible" The Threepenny Review | |
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Other Notable Music Writing of 2010 | |
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List of Contributors | |
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Credits | |