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Modern Times | 2006 |
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| Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | 2006 |
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| The Hold Steady | Boys and Girls in America | 2006 |
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| My Morning Jacket | Z | 2005 |
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| The New Pornographers | Twin Cinema | 2005 |
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| Sleater-Kinney | The Woods | 2005 |
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| Bruce Springsteen | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions | 2006 |
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| TV on the Radio | Return to Cookie Mountain | 2006 |
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| Tom Waits |
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards | 2006 |
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