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Okay, uncle. I give. After Robert Pollard broke up Guided by Voices, of which he was the only real member, I thought I'd finally have time to work through some of the 1,000-plus songs the band had released during its 21-year run.

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Stuart Murdoch knows from adolescent identity crisis. As the leader of Scottish folk-pop bookworms Belle and Sebastian, he's lisped the prematurely jaded journal jottings of the precocious characters in his songs for close to a decade. If at times he's overindulged the brats, well, how better to reveal the insecurities behind their kinky, highfalutin boasts?

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Wigga. Derived from the nation's naughtiest word, the term was meant to tell whities to mind their cultural boundaries. Of course, that never stopped '90s suburban kids from exposing their boxer shorts as though they were glad to have an epithet of their own. Rap rock's crude appropriation of hip-hop's beats, rhymes, and baggy pants was never meant to make it this far into the new millennium.

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We should have started to worry when she promised no more drama. Mary J. Blige’s fierce, throaty wail is suited to anguish; she wouldn’t be able to invest self-help clichés with genuine pathos if her lived-in bluesy swagger didn’t pack so much sadness. So what happens when she gets happy?

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In the performance film Speaking for Trees, Chan Marshall walks barefoot into a sun-spangled field, jacks in her electric guitar, and for the next two hours makes like she's digging a hole in her brain's backyard.