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href="/web/20080922224852/http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/derk/archive/">Derk Richardson</a> </h3> <div class="multimedia"> <a href="/web/20080922224852/http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/derk/archive/" class="current">Archive</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080922224852/mailto:derk@sfgate.com">E-mail</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080922224852/http://www.sfgate.com/rss/feeds/drichardson.xml"><img class="rssIcon" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080922224852im_/http://imgs.sfgate.com/graphics/contentmodules/col004/rss_icon.gif"></a> </div> </div> </div> </div>    <div class="sfg_col006"> <h2><a href="/web/20080922224852/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/18/derk.DTL">Teddy Thompson gives mainstream pop music a piece of what it needs</a></h2> <div class="desc"> <div class="date">09.18.08</div> <p>Teddy Thompson thinks he knows what is missing in mainstream pop music, namely quality and 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