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From Mod to Emo: Why Pop Tribes Are Still Making a Scene

Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 25 February 2010

Like-minded music fans have been herding together for half a century — but are die-hard pop tribes now a thing of the past? Do today's youth cults still have that gang mentality?

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