'Transference,' 'Songs for Chris Knox,' 'Contra'
Philadelphia City Paper |
February 2, 2010
Tags: Transference, Spoon
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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04-13-2010 |
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Tags: Meghan Remy, U.S. Girls
Josh Wink: Stay Out All Nightnew
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Philadelphia City Paper |
Patrick Rapa |
02-10-2009 |
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Drexel Prof Has Some Concrete Answers About How the Pyramids Were Builtnew
Michel Barsoum says the theories that modern science have devised to explain the construction of Egypt's Great Pyramids are wrong. Barsoum's theory, naturally, has been treated as heresy in the world of Egyptology.
Philadelphia City Paper |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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Tags: Meghan Remy, U.S. Girls
'The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist' is Superbnew
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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Tags: Dead Milkmen, punk rock
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Tags: The Flaming Lips, Embryonic
