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When you're perhaps the greatest songwriter of all time, it's easy to hand out a few of your gems and not feel worse for wear. Such is the case for the Minnesota-born Bob Dylan, an artist known both ...

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Hello! This is “No Skips,” a column where I go over records that have, as the title suggests, no skips — at least in my opinion. Music fans galore would likely agree on this pick from Stereolab’s ...