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Topic: Music (page 166)

The wonder stuff: With "The Soft Bulletin," psychedelic popsters the Flaming Lips made a children's record for adults

Music: Bluegrass banjoist Béla Fleck's return to acoustic glory

Music: Mrs. Miller's terrible voice and painful sincerity produced one of the funniest sets of songs ever recorded

Music: How do you do Bob Dylan better than Bob Dylan?

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Music: Gang Starr's retrospective "Full Clip" remembers when jazz and hip-hop first came together

Music: Luscious Jackson's cool hip-hop drips with "Electric Honey"

Andrew Strickman

Sarah Vowell: Part train wreck, part urban epic, "Summer of Sam" is Spike Lee at his contradictory best

Music: Canadian folkie Gordon Lightfoot made beautiful music -- and goofy mistakes

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Music: Chrissie Hynde is back on the chain gang with the hardest-working Pretenders album in years

Music: Guitar Wolf's hot-rod garage trash howls like a jet engine

Alex Pappademas

Music: Lyle Lovett, country music's smartest anomaly, reunites with his Large Band on a smoldering live album

Music: The misunderstood legacy of Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart

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The road rules: Bob Dylan continues on the mother of all tours, 12 years and counting

Music: Ween's scatological pranksters offer up a poopy (that's

Music: "The Wake-Up Show" DJs Sway and King Tech whip up a sorry-ass thug's backlash to Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott.

Michelle Goldberg

Music: The Chemical Brothers "Surrender" to watery psychedelia.

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Music: Back in the '50s, L.A. session guitarists Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant were the Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Music: On his new album, Carlos Santana droops, despite the help of Dave Matthews, Lauryn Hill and Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas

Pavement is a 65-point word: Scrabble freak and Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus talks about songwriting and his band's ne

Sarah Vowell: My guilty pleasures are all pretentious

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Music: Singer/songwriter Danielle Howle trades on the passion of Ani DiFranco and the melodicism of Patsy Cline

Metal rools, still: For Ozzy and Slayer, they came -- the Dudes of Jersey Past, whom punk never knew. You have to respect them

Spicy Girls: Summertime hot sauce from Sarah Jessica Parker and Geri Halliwell

Music: "Californication" has the Chili Peppers red-hot and bothered

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