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Listening Party: Spirit Room by Michelle Branch

For the life of me, I wanted a blue Taylor 614ceβthe kind Michelle Branch had slung across her shoulder in press photos, radiant and reverent, the very image of the millennium’s girl with a guitar. I never got the guitar. But I did get The Spirit Room, and that was enough to make me believe β read more
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Listening Party: The Family Jewels by Marina and the Diamonds

I remember confusing Marina and the Diamonds with Marina AbramoviΔ. An easy mistake to make if you’re twenty, half-jaded, and just beginning to think that pop music might be smarter than you’d been led to believe. I thought Lady Gaga was referencing her with the artifice, the glamour, the grandiosity. But it wasn’t her. It β read more