Written By Phillip Mottaz

Dedicated to those songs that I can’t stop playing, humming, or thinking about; the 4+ minutes you fall head-over-heels in love with. Past instances have included New Order’s “Age of Consent,” Sleater-Kinney’s “Rollercoaster,” and Fiona Apple’s “Shadowboxer.”
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[Photo of Harry Weinger, vice president of Universal Music Group's catalog division, looks through original Motown master tapes at the company's vault in New York, by Romain Blanquart for the Detroit Free Press]

From The Detroit Free Press: It’s a plain little room. The size of a small garage, maybe. For Detroit, this is a very important 150 square feet. Housed here, on the fifth floor of an office building 500 miles from West Grand Boulevard, are the most valuable raw materials in the city’s cultural history.
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