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Complete B Sides: 1988-97 (Remaster)

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What is a B-side to a band as delightfully peculiar as Pixies? What happens when you flip over the group who influenced a whole generation of young punks with their loud-quiet-loud aesthetic while surfing their own boldly idiosyncratic gamma wave? Consider Complete B-Sides: 1988-97, originally released in 2001 and now getting a remaster as part of the band’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
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Beatrice M.: Sinking

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Remember when dubstep was good? Paris-born producer and DJ Beatrice M. certainly does: Their music calls back to the genre’s mid-2000s South London days, when dub implied reggae, Skream was a youthful prodigy, and Sonny Moore was the singer in a hardcore band. It was probably inevitable that this sound would come round again, with music’s proverbial 20-year fashion cycle once again raising its head.
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The Boys of Dungeon Lane

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Paul McCartney must have been born nostalgic. How else to explain songs like “Penny Lane,” “The Long and Winding Road,” and “Your Mother Should Know,” all wistful reveries for a mythical past, penned while McCartney was still in his 20s? So it’s only natural that the 83-year-old singer-songwriter should indulge in a wistful return to old Liverpool times on the autobiographical The Boys of Dungeon Lane, his first studio album in six years.
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