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Snail Mail — the project of Lindsey Jordan — announces her highly anticipated third album Ricochet, due out March 27 on Matador Records. Her first album in five years, she returns with a renewed sense ...

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Recently, I was out in my garden pulling up old pieces of bamboo used for fencing around some fragile native plants getting established. I was in the process of making a pile of them to burn, when ...