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Spiderland is the second and final studio album by American rock band Slint (lead singer Brian McMahan pictured). It was released on March 27, 1991, through Touch and Go Records. Featuring dramatically alternating dynamics and vocals ranging from spoken word to shouting, the album contains narrative lyrics that emphasize alienation. Spiderland was Slint's first release on Touch and Go, and the group's last record. The title originated from McMahan's younger brother, who thought that the record sounded "spidery". Although Spiderland was not widely recognized on its initial release, it eventually sold more than 50,000 copies and became a landmark album in underground music after Slint broke up. Its popularity increased in part after the appearance of the track "Good Morning, Captain" on the soundtrack to the 1995 film Kids. The album has been highly influential on the styles of many bands in the post-rock and math rock genres, including Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and has been named a favorite of several indie rock musicians. In 2007, Slint reunited for a tour consisting of performances of Spiderland in its entirety. (Full article...)

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In sumo, Mongolian wrestler Kakuryū Rikisaburō (pictured) is promoted to yokozuna, becoming the 71st person to earn the title.
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins the Pritzker Prize.
Malaysia Airlines announces that Flight 370, which went missing on 8 March, crashed in the southern Indian Ocean with no survivors.
A mudslide in the US state of Washington kills at least 24 people and leaves 90 missing.
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Russia formally annexes Crimea while the European Union and Ukraine sign an association agreement.

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March 27

1329 – Pope John XXII issued a papal bull that some of the works of German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical.
1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, a leading British Whig Party statesman, began his second non-consecutive term as Prime Minister of Great Britain.
1850 – San Diego, the first European settlement in what is now California, was incorporated as a city.
1981 – The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the biggest strike in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.
1993 – Jiang Zemin (pictured) succeeded Yang Shangkun to become President of the People's Republic of China.

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Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990), an American jazz singer described by Scott Yanow as having "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century", pictured performing in 1946. Vaughan began her career in the early 1940s and was a star within a few years, signing with Musicraft Records the year this photograph was taken; she remained active until her death. Vaughan has received extended recognition, including induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame, two entries in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and several tribute albums.

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