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Listen Again: A Momentary History of Pop Music
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 (8:30pm)
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$8
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Some musicians' popularity obscures their objective badness (Mariah Carey, James Blunt), and some artists are so universally reviled that they're actual pop-culture pariahs (Creed, Céline Dion). Today's iPod-shufflers, though, gleefully erase boundaries of taste faster than you can say "Fred Durst," rediscovering cast-off artists and singing their praises from the rooftops (or, at least, their blogs). Tonight, in honor of new music-crit compendium Listen Again, a cast of notable reformed snobs — including the LA Times' Ann Powers, singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), and Soul-Sides.com's Oliver Wang — speak for five minutes a piece, convincing the audience of various pop songs' hidden awesomeness.
