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							  "As Steven was saying the other night at the screening, at the end of the day we're all selling something, and we all want something, whether it's monetary or not."  
							
							 
						
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							 Animal Collective are the next logical iteration of the jam band. Yes. Yes they are. Not arguing. Telling. If this upsets you as an out-and-proud hip person, or if you’re right now clutching your seashell necklace in horror at the thought, I know: this isn’t easy for me, either. But I know what I saw.  
							
							 
						
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							  The cover photo of a camel wearing a party hat on a terrace is a clue: after nearly a decade of fighting Jeff Tweedy and Wilco have lightened up.  
							
							 
						
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							   Fear not, broke American: the music industry feels your pain.   
							
							 
						
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							   There are two things about Atmosphere MC Slug that provoke endless fury in linguistically thugged-out Internet rap snobs everywhere.   
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							  When the Boston Newspaper Guild, the  Boston Globe 's largest union, decided to take the New York Times Company's latest contract offer to its members last week, ratification seemed like a done deal.  
							
							 
						
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							  Violent crime, gang activity, and general thuggery are not recurring themes on the Brookline police blotter. But that civic paradise is plagued by another kind of scourge — one that manifests all three of those crimes in avian form. And it isn't bird flu.     
							
							 
						
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							  Boston Ballet's 'Ballets Russes'  
							
							 
						
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							   If all you know of the Aran Islands is the plays of Martin McDonagh, you probably think their populace is an untamed and violent lot.   
							
							 
						
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							 Since Iceland is something of the epicenter of the global financial crisis — its government being the first to essentially go belly up — it's probably not surprising that the Icelanders have come up with the most novel and interesting theory as to what caused the meltdown. And they may be right. 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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