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If you’re not the enemy now, there’s still time, because he will turn on you, too. In one of his increasingly unhinged...

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Remember when a double album – two vinyl LPs, each with about 30 minutes of music – was a big...

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The winner of the annual Carteret Battle of the Bands is The Nitro Blues Band, a young four-piece steeped in the...

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Fabulist J.D. Vance attempts to prime the Party for post-Trump. It was plain as the smirk on the Ohio Senator’s...

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The Continental Drifters are drifting into the spotlight more than two decades after they disbanded, thanks to a flurry of...

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Columns

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The Estrogen Tsunami Revolution is here… and it will be televised. You know, the left has a lot of single-issue...

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Jeff Burger

Columns

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Frank Zappa isn’t a name you’d ordinarily associate with hit-making, but this esoteric artist did occasionally flirt with commercial success, most...

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