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Top 20(albums)14

Erin McAuliffe, Kevin Salat, Allie Tollaksen, Matt McMahon, Matthew Munhall and Jimmy Kemper | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

1) St. Vincent – “St. Vincent” St. Vincent, 32 year-old lavender-haired Annie Clark, released her self-titled fourth album this year as her cult leader, new-age rockstar persona — referenced by everyone from The New Yorker to my dad. Her robotic-performance tendencies and brassy, electronic interludes contribute to the otherworldly and dominating effect of this

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‘Benji’ a modern masterpiece

John Darr | Tuesday, February 11, 2014

This week has been rough. Diving into the bleak world of “Dorian Gray,” I spent the wee hours of the Sunday night crying with the broken-hearted Sibyl Vane and staring at that hideous portrait. Monday found me crawling through Goethe’s “Faust,” wandering around with the devil sneering at my shoulder. Oh, and this was after