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Music Review: 'You're Dead!' By Flying Lotus
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View ArticleA 'Giant Anthology' Of Profile Records, Rap's Early Champion
Before the rise of Def Jam as hip-hop's definitive record label, there was Profile, which helped shepherd in some of the genre's early shifts in sound and style. A new two-CD anthology, Giant Single:...
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Few 20th century thinkers predicted the 21st century era of social media and the Internet better than Marshall McLuhan. Beginning in the 1960s, the Toronto-based philosopher and scholar began to...
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