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The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up

Yancey Strickler

by Yancey Strickler

My first piece of published writing. It ran on Pitchfork. I sent it to them on spec. It was an album my college radio station had gotten in. It stood out to me because it had a Polaroid glued on the sleeve. My rock critic career was born!

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