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Mark Richt, the Carousel, and the Difficult-to-Define ‘It’ Factor

As head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, Mark Richt has spent 13 years giving the Bulldog faithful an average of 10 good reasons for his continued tenure and three rationales for his ouster that often...

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This Sweetness Will Not Be Concerned With Me: A Day at Music Producer Mark...

Mark Trombino is in the business of legitimizing guilty pleasures — the cultured aesthete may scoff “too cloying,” “kid stuff,” “not recommended more than twice a week,” and they could not be more...

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Remembering the Music of Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines and School of...

Musician Benjamin Curtis passed away this Sunday at the age of 35, and while his death is certainly a tragedy, it wasn’t a total shock — the founding member of Secret Machines and School of Seven Bells...

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The ACC’s No Good, Very Bad Week, and Why It Doesn’t Matter

On the morning of December 31, 2013, Florida State was an 8.5-point favorite in the BCS Championship and Clemson stood as a three-point underdog against Ohio State in the Orange Bowl. As the calendar...

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Rick Ross’s ‘Mastermind’: True Lies From the Superstar Machine

If you don’t believe what you’re hearing on a Rick Ross album, you know how to enjoy the man’s work. This does not entail “suspension of disbelief” — that would mean an ongoing process requiring...

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In Praise of Virginia: The Mediocre, Miraculous No. 1 Seed

Meet Virginia, the most proudly not-watched no. 1 seed in NCAA tournament history. This applies to typical Twitter pundits, our own Mark Titus claiming he’s slept on the Cavaliers in damn near every...

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‘Beast’ Mode: The Return of Greg Dulli and the Afghan Whigs

Millions in the Los Angeles area were woken up by a 4.4 earthquake before the dawn of March 18. Greg Dulli was not one of them. This is in a figurative sense; the Cincinnati-born Afghan Whigs front man...

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‘Never Hungover Again’: A Little Bowling Alley Time With Torrance Pop-Punkers...

Drive down a short stretch of Sepulveda a few miles off the 110 in Torrance, California, and you’ll find Joyce Manor’s version of CBGB, The Smell, The 100 Club — the hallowed dump that shaped the...

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The Sound of Settling: Looking Ahead to Death Cab for Cutie’s Post–Chris...

Yesterday, Death Cab for Cutie announced their first album in nearly four years and most people acted like they had broken up instead. This is because their return was bundled with the news that...

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Aphex Twin But Were Afraid to Ask (Before...

If you happen to be a music fan who relies on music fanatics for guidance, there have likely been numerous times when the chatter feels so foreign and incomprehensible that you’re just left to yell at...

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