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Tough Breaks
Presenting the best breakup albums of all time
By Michael Gallucci
Published: June 12, 2008
On last year's Under the Blacklight, Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis and Blake Sennett celebrated the end of their relationship. The one-time couple called it quits just before...
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Film
Supermarket Sweep
Male fulfillment and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: June 12, 2008
The screenwriter Steven Conrad writes movies about success and self-fulfillment in America—how we define it, the price we pay for it and what it looks like depending on...
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Critics' Picks
The Roots
Tuesday, June 17, at House of Blues
By Falling James
Published: June 12, 2008
The next time someone tells you that all hip-hop is the same, with narcissistic MCs rapping about their jewelry to pre-programmed backing tracks, make sure to sling the new...
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Supergrass
Diamond Hoo Ha (EMI)
By Merritt Martin
Published: June 12, 2008
Where Supergrass once stood as an effervescent factory of happy-glam, the group has changed the formula for its sixth effort, Diamond Hoo Ha. Rather than follow 2005's moodier...
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Film
What's Happening?
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 12, 2008
The Happening What a bunch of nonsense—effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless. This is what happens when M....
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Critics' Picks
Death Cab for Cutie, Rogue Wave
Tuesday, June 17, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie
By D.X. Ferris
Published: June 12, 2008
One reason Seattle's Death Cab For Cutie became an indie-rock godhead is that the band's members are so clearly comfortable in their own skins (and sweaters and thick black...
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