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| Modest Mouse |
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| Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane |
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| My Morning Jacket | Z | 2005 |
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| The New Pornographers | Twin Cinema | 2005 |
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| A. C. Newman |
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| Elliott Smith | From a Basement on a Hill | 2004 |
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| Wilco |
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