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To punk purists, Green Day has never been an easy sell. Emerging from the northern California punk scene of the early '90s, the band quickly... More >>
For decades, U.S. views of Cuban culture have been distorted by restricted access, reduced to archival footage of Fidel Castro cursing the evils... More >>
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