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Featured News
Ugly Things 30th Anniversary Event
Thirty years... I have to bend my mind in thirty different directions to even begin to wrap my head around the fact that Ugly Things has now been publishing for that long. Yes, the first issue of this
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Featured Articles
On the anniversary of John Lennon's death
By Mike Stax
(The article below appeared in the SAN DIEGO READER in 2010 as part of a larger story marking the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death.)
On December 8, 1980 I -
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Featured Reviews
Seeds on Sundazed — and other Record Store Day Scores
By Doug Sheppard Like the authorities catching up to the protagonist in a biker exploitation film, time had caught up to Sky Saxon in 1970. Between Altamont, harder drugs and the frowning faces of war protestation, there was no room for the Seeds’ idealism and – if analogies are in order – the times had indeed spoiled Sky’s fun. Rock was now serious, like really serious, man ...
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