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| | Ira Robbins - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | As an editor of -Trouser Press magazine, Ira Robbins was vital in disseminating information about punk, new wave and underground music, past and present, to a U.S. readership from the mid '70s to the mid '80s. |
 | | For those born a little too late to experience '60s music firsthand, -Trouser Press was one of the only places you could find out about greats like the Yardbirds and Syd Barrett, with detailed pieces that were far more intelligent and in-depth than mere discographies. |
 | | There are flaws in the -Trouser Press guides; the criteria for which artists are included or excluded are sometimes open to question, and the writing can be insufficiently critical or descriptive. |
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