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From The Desk Of Luna: SCTV

With their first new music since 2004’s Rendezvous, the master Lou Reed disciples in Luna return to one of their strengths: covers. A Sentimental Education finds the quartet—Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, Sean Eden and Lee Wall—tackling mostly obscurities by the likes of Yes, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Mercury Rev and Fleetwood Mac. Simultaneously released companion piece A Place Of Greater Safety EP is all-original, however, though the six songs are instrumentals. Luna will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.

Eden: This comedy variety show that aired between 1976 and 1984 is still the standard bearer for sheer unbridled creativity and bizarreness and fall-on-the-floor-laughing hilarity. Sure, some of it is unavoidably quite dated at this point, but if you haven’t seen much of it, do yourself a favor and explore a little more of it on YouTube or DVD. It needs to be said that when it was great, and there were quite a few truly great individual shows, it was even better than the classic SNL lineup of the late ’70s. Plus, they also had plenty of amazing musical guest performances over the years as well.