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Band We Like
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November 2009
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11/16/09
Disappearer won't let you forget them.
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11/09/09
tUnE-YaRds spell their name just like they sound.
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11/04/09
Surfer Blood -- the buzziest band in the land? ---- play Brooklyn Bowl
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October 2009
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10/26/09
Toro y Moi makes electro fun for the whole family.
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10/24/09
Our Saturday CMJ Pick: Javelin
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10/23/09
Our Friday CMJ Pick: Air Waves
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10/22/09
Our Thursday CMJ Pick: Surfer Blood
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10/15/09
Oh My Rockness turns 5! Celebrate with us and ten bands at Santos Party House on Wednesday, October 21st!
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10/05/09
Fool's Gold are legit.
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September 2009
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09/28/09
Still Life Still are all sprawling and stuff.
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09/21/09
Beards For Ganglians Foreva!
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09/14/09
Fanfarlo will be as big here as they are there.
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09/09/09
Lia Ices gives us the chills (mental note: not so punny with the headlines next time!)
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August 2009
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08/31/09
Can't afford a Labor Day getaway? Take in Vacations. It's almost as relaxing.
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08/24/09
Javelin, you SO CRAZY!
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08/17/09
Boy 8 Bit makes dance music. Period.
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08/10/09
Lights On likes keys.
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08/03/09
Blind Man's Colour will see you next fall, because they trip a LOT.
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July 2009
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07/27/09
The Wave Pictures play for free at South Street Seaport.
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07/27/09
Casiokids make nerdy dance music for cool kids. Or maybe it's cool dance music for nerds.
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07/20/09
The Brown Book came out of nowhere to rock us out.
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07/13/09
Ducktails --- Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg.
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07/08/09
Sisters make nice and noisy pop.
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June 2009
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06/29/09
Suckers give off happy vibes. Sadness sucks!
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06/23/09
Fan-Tan hits us where it hurts.
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06/15/09
Free Energy suns up up a dark spring.
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06/08/09
The Drums: OMR's favorite new band.
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06/01/09
Dinowalrus make noise from another decade.
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May 2009
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05/18/09
The beautiful pop darkness of Disappears.
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05/14/09
Cymbals Eat Guitars are gonna make it, after all.
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05/11/09
Cold Cave plays No Fun Fest.
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05/04/09
Future Islands: Is That A Lost Reference?
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April 2009
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04/27/09
The So So Glos noise out Santos Party House.
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04/20/09
Jeremy Jay just kind of grooves it.
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04/13/09
Deleted Scenes: I'mmmmmmm crrrrryyyyyyyying!
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04/06/09
Knight School = Sir-Awesome-A-Lot (worst headline ever)
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March 2009
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03/30/09
James Yuill kills it!
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03/23/09
Deastro pops like Orville and electro-rocks like Redenbacher.
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03/16/09
pow wow! riff! riff!
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03/09/09
Slow Club = not depressing.
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03/02/09
Telekinesis ain't no Foo.
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03/02/09
Let's Wrestle does slop-rock.
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February 2009
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02/23/09
The Henry Clay People play good old indie-rock.
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02/17/09
Carnival Cruises have nothing on Tanlines Tours.
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02/09/09
Gamers and rockers unite!
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02/02/09
Goblin Cock is band #29,278,392 for Rob Crow.
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January 2009
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01/26/09
Project Jenny/Project Jan are definitely different.
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01/20/09
Cerebral Ballzy: the name sort of says it all.
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01/12/09
David Karsten Daniels throws them tales around.
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01/05/09
The Browns bust Brooklyn up.
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December 2008
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12/18/08
Crystal Castles to play two New Year's Eve shows: one late, one super late!
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12/16/08
We're totally into the Birthday Boyz.
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12/08/08
We like Longwave again.
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12/01/08
Sebastien Tellier: OMG synth me so hot!
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November 2008
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11/24/08
Sebastien Grainger trades in thrash for pop.
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11/17/08
Cheap Time rock it out.
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11/10/08
Javelins: more dangerous than Jarts.
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11/03/08
School of Seven Bells feature a Secret and a couple of Libraries.
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October 2008
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10/27/08
Smashing Pumpkins reunite. This is strange.
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10/25/08
Oh My Rockness and Oya Fest do CMJ 2008!
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10/24/08
Vivian Girls punk up Cake Shop and Danbro Brewery Warehouse.
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10/23/08
Passion Pit plays it happy.
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10/21/08
The Muslims' punk plunks along perfectly.
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10/20/08
Friendly Fires synth it, chop it and rock it.
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10/08/08
Get beads of sweat when you see Ladyhawke rock her beats and synths.
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September 2008
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09/29/08
Pattern is Movement: structure in song.
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09/23/08
Here Come The New Kids On The Block!
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09/15/08
Twi the Humble Feather rips them riffs! Kidding.
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09/08/08
Death Vessel's pop makes for a reflective mood.
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09/02/08
Love, Death, Religion: AA Bondy puts it all in song.
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August 2008
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08/25/08
Motel Motel make it work.
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08/18/08
Baltimore's Ponytail rock a strange and primal party.
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08/18/08
Lykke Li writes sweet indie-pop like a dance-y doughnut.
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08/11/08
Vivian Girls punk up Southpaw and Death by Audio.
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08/04/08
Passion Pit plays it happy.
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July 2008
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07/31/08
Maps and Atlases' guitars go all over the place.
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07/24/08
Noah and the Whale: an IFC movie soundtrack waiting to happen.
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07/14/08
The Black Ghosts get their gloomy electro-goth on.
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07/08/08
Baltimore's Wye Oak are easy like the Orioles.
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June 2008
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06/30/08
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson does his own thing.
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06/23/08
Crystal Stilts gussies up gloom-pop.
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06/16/08
Dianogah's dueling bass grooves are back.
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06/09/08
Appomattox rev up the riffs and bring it.
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06/02/08
The Cool Kids brighten up the world of hip-hop.
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May 2008
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05/26/08
The Jonbenet are not easy on the ears.
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05/21/08
The Depreciation Guild does it like Double Dribble.
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05/12/08
Basia Bulat buzzes by on the indie-soul train.
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05/06/08
Does It Offend You, Yeah? No, not really.
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April 2008
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04/29/08
Sometimes Anamanaguchi is EXACTLY what you want to be listening to.
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04/22/08
Gang Gang Dance rock a bizarrely gorgeous groove.
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04/15/08
Destroyer's sound is always a day early and a few bucks in the black.
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04/08/08
No matter what you hear, Deer Tick is really from Rhode Island.
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04/02/08
Apollo Heights take shoegaze-soul to the top.
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March 2008
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03/25/08
Fuck Buttons kill the keys.
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03/18/08
Fleet Foxes rock your father's record collection.
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03/11/08
J Mascis drums it up with Witch.
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03/04/08
Justice are cooler than I am.
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February 2008
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02/26/08
Rick Froberg of Hot Snakes is back with Obits!
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02/26/08
Videohippos make media DESTROY!
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02/26/08
Wild Light: the little known band that played the ampitheaters.
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02/12/08
The XYZ Affair make power-pop proud again.
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02/04/08
No Age freaks out.
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January 2008
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01/22/08
The Teenagers are dirty, and funny and thankfully, catchy.
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01/15/08
They're not messy, they're Tyvek.
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01/08/08
Plastic Little make rap fun again.
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01/02/08
Take the Excepter challenge.
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December 2007
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12/18/07
Blues Control drone it down.
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12/11/07
The Most Serene Republic make BIG pop.
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12/04/07
This Will Destroy You Likes Guitar Drama.
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November 2007
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11/27/07
Golden City rock it most melodically.
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11/19/07
Los Campesinos! sells happiness.
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11/13/07
Apache Beat bring good old fashioned gloom-wave.
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11/11/07
Pterodactyl keeps dirty-drone from going the way of the dinosaur.
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October 2007
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10/30/07
Frightened Rabbit plays purely accessible indie-pop.
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10/23/07
The warm-all-over folk sounds of Ola Podrida.
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10/23/07
Philly's Genghis Tron rocks the brutal blasts.
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10/20/07
Lo-Fi-Fnk = exceptional electro-pop
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10/19/07
Mannequin Men play boozy garage-punk that's best experienced at high decibel levels.
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10/18/07
Holy Fuck! Everyone Loves an Experimental Electro Canadian Collective.
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10/10/07
Oh My Rockness & Oya Festival Present: Norway v.s. North America
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10/03/07
Knock it off, Old Time Relijun! It's not funny!
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September 2007
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09/27/07
Brooklyn's Fiasco create orchestrated chaos.
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09/24/07
Jukebox The Ghost's play positive indie-piano-pop.
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09/17/07
Crystal Castles rips them electro-glitches up.
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09/06/07
Mannequin Men rock with arty garage fury.
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09/04/07
White Wililams plays carefree machine-made jams.
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August 2007
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08/28/07
Team Robespierre bring punk to the electro-party.
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08/15/07
Dappled Cities makes me wish I could sing better.
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08/08/07
Yacht plugs in and rocks the cute, the quirky and the catchy.
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08/01/07
Oppenheimer rock the ditty.
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July 2007
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07/30/07
Moth!Fight! make cool carnival music.
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07/18/07
They're not messy, they're Tyvek.
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07/11/07
The XYZ Affair make power-pop proud again.
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07/03/07
Dan Deacon: Go Go Gadget rock!
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June 2007
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06/26/07
Simian Mobile Disco make perfect dance-rock.
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06/25/07
dios (malos) rock the melodic, sunny pop.
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06/13/07
Canada's Apostle of Hustle tweak the Broken Social Scene sound.
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06/06/07
A Sunny Day In Glasgow make meticulously arranged noise.
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May 2007
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05/30/07
Go see The Fucking Champs. Just do it.
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05/23/07
England's melodically harmonious Mystery Jets.
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05/16/07
My Teenage Stride plays pleasant pop.
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05/09/07
Mastodon rocks. But you already knew that.
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05/02/07
Holy Fuck! Everyone Loves an Experimental Electro Canadian Collective.
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April 2007
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04/25/07
Trans Am can still jam the guitar-driven drones.
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04/18/07
Yo La Tengo still have it.
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04/11/07
The Narrator mix it up.
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04/10/07
Brooklyn's Alex Delivery are a strange new band worth watching.
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March 2007
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03/28/07
Loney, Dear's grand orchestral vision.
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03/21/07
Toronto's Do Make Say Think play restrained orchestral rock.
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03/13/07
Fujiya & Miyagi play sweet electro.
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03/07/07
London's Metronomy are pleasantly plugged in.
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03/01/07
Beach House play with their tempo down.
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February 2007
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02/21/07
Chicago's Walter Meego: energetic electro-rock that actually rocks
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02/14/07
Call Me Lightning have Horsepower with a capital ROCK.
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02/07/07
Saxon Shore: still crazy for them after all these years.
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January 2007
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01/31/07
Midlake makes Texas breezy.
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01/24/07
Mountains roar quietly.
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01/17/07
Camera Obscura brings bright optimism to Warsaw.
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01/10/07
Gary Higgins' haunting melancholy.
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01/03/07
O'Death lead the stampede.
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December 2006
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12/20/06
Oh My Rockness' Best of 2006 List!
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12/13/06
Gospel is sick!
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12/07/06
The mighty Maserati return!
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November 2006
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11/29/06
Junior Boys' seductive electro sways.
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11/22/06
Seek out +/-
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11/15/06
Battles do bleeps and clicks, angular style.
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11/08/06
Make Believe are the real deal.
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11/01/06
CMJ 2006!
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October 2006
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10/25/06
Oh My Rockness' 2-year Birthday Party!
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10/18/06
Oppenheimer rock the ditty.
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10/11/06
Au Revoir Simone's pleasant pop
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10/04/06
The grandly dark flourish of Die Romantik
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September 2006
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09/28/06
O'Death
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09/20/06
Tokyo Police Club's optimistic pop.
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09/13/06
Annuals use their imagination.
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09/06/06
Lots of people are loving Matt & Kim.
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August 2006
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08/30/06
Shellac Returns!
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08/23/06
Titus Andronicus share the joy.
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08/16/06
Apes & Androids comin' to you live from the year 3000.
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08/09/06
The jonbenet
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08/02/06
Silversun Pickups need your help in getting back to 1993.
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July 2006
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07/26/06
The Kingdom love snowmobiles and Johnny Unitas.
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07/19/06
The Long Blondes will not be denied.
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07/12/06
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin: catchy name/catchy songs
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07/05/06
Bound Stems welcome Big Ben Wallace.
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June 2006
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06/28/06
Apes & Androids comin' to you live from the year 3000.
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06/21/06
Tokyo Police Club's optimistic pop.
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06/14/06
The Plastic Constellations play cheerfully blazing post-punk
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06/08/06
David Thomas Broughton's songs are like an unmarked grave.
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May 2006
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05/31/06
Professor Murder are a bang band.
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05/24/06
Boris bruises.
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05/17/06
Sunset Rubdown is a weirder Wolf Parade.
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05/10/06
The Big Sleep awaken!
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05/03/06
Torche bring their growling, guttural guitars to Webster.
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April 2006
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04/26/06
Russian Circles metal it up, Chicago style.
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04/19/06
Vague Angels come from another wonderful planet
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04/12/06
Pela will soon be HUGE.
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04/05/06
Gospel is sick
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March 2006
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03/29/06
Pink Mountaintops shares color and sound with Pink Floyd.
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03/25/06
Destroyer's sparse songs
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03/14/06
Oh My Rockness' March Radness! Burgers, Beers, and Bands We Love!
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03/08/06
Australia's The Presets bring the grimy beat.
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03/01/06
Go See Goes Cube And Get Punished
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February 2006
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02/22/06
Psychic Ills rip it.
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02/22/06
Test Icicles: R.I.Y.L Bad Band Names and the Blood Brothers
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02/15/06
Cause Co-Motion takes this distortion and shoves it.
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02/08/06
Celebration rock the guitorgan.
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02/01/06
Metal Hearts are mellow
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January 2006
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01/25/06
Field Music rock falsetto harmonies, expansive keys, and Wire-like guitars
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01/19/06
My Best Fiend know how to jump around.
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01/12/06
Juan Maclean is tense these days.
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01/05/06
The Big Sleep rock driving psych rhythms
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December 2005
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12/21/05
The National usher in 2006
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12/21/05
Juan Maclean is tense these days
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12/15/05
Owen brings a kind of hush all over the Knitting Factory.
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12/08/05
Bound Stems' raspy fuzz rock.
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12/01/05
Chad Van Gaalen's distorted lo-fi orchestration.
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November 2005
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11/23/05
The Burdocks play indie pop
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11/16/05
American Analog Set and their lovely, lo-fi pop.
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11/09/05
The Plastic Constellations formed at 14. We've done nothing.
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11/03/05
Bell Orchestre play serene, cinematic sounds.
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11/01/05
Foreign Islands mix punk, spazz, dance, and handclaps.
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October 2005
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10/20/05
31Knots play those rare jazzy jams that don't suck
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10/12/05
Blood on the Wall should be scrubbed right away using bleach and a splash of lemon juice
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10/06/05
Early Man are pretty...pretty insane.
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10/03/05
We Are Wolves are probably the second best band that utilizes the word
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September 2005
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09/22/05
Palaxy Tracks bring their soft sounds to Double Door.
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09/16/05
Wilderness play Scenic
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09/15/05
Tom Vek plays Scenic
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09/15/05
The Narrator play 169 Bar
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09/15/05
Two Gallants: poetry that rocks?
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09/01/05
Akron/Family play North Six.
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August 2005
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08/25/05
Wilderness play Mercury Lounge.
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08/18/05
Doveman would be a really lame superhero...good thing it's a band.
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08/11/05
Smoosh play Knitting Factory
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08/04/05
Chinese Stars play North Six
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July 2005
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07/28/05
These Bellmer Dolls are the Devil's Music.
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07/21/05
M. Ward's curious Americana
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07/14/05
This music is drama
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07/07/05
Dungen meets Cookie Monster
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June 2005
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06/30/05
Panthers panthers panthers!
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06/23/05
Comets on Fire are a loud bang.
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06/16/05
Rahim. One of our favorite new bands. Period.
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06/09/05
Maximo Park ain't no joke.
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06/02/05
You Can't Do That on Television was a Canadian Show, right? Does anyone know?
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May 2005
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05/26/05
Pela takes you on a Journey
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05/19/05
Lightning Bolt rock us.
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05/12/05
The 101 make us happy.
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05/05/05
Thunderbirds are Now! are a wail of a good time. And you can quote us on that too.
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April 2005
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04/28/05
The Books make complex dissonance out of a bunch of random stuff.
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04/14/05
Supersystem is sexy.
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04/07/05
By The End of Tonight will completely rock you.
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March 2005
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03/31/05
LaVelle knows how to do it.
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03/24/05
Matt Pond PA plays pretty.
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03/09/05
Clap Your Hands Say Byrne!
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03/02/05
Everybody hearts Lungfish
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February 2005
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02/23/05
The World-Weary Troubadour
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02/17/05
Say Hi To Your Mom and Tell Her I Made Her the Best Mix-Tape Ever.
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02/10/05
Why Can't a Saint Also be a lover? And why can't a lover be a saint?
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02/03/05
Rogue Waves Plays a Show, Then Gets Drunk with Rockness and YOU.
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January 2005
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01/27/05
Human Television Play Retro Rock Without All The Lameness That Implies.
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01/20/05
Say Hi To Your Mom and Tell Her I Made Her the Best Mix-Tape Ever.
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01/13/05
The Winter Pageant are good.
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01/06/05
Say Hey to Shy Child!
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December 2004
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12/30/04
We like Mommy and Daddy and they like each other.
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12/21/04
Dirty On Purpose Clean Up At Southpaw
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12/15/04
Bishop Allen: Chicken Soup for the 'I'm Too Cool to Enjoy Myself' Soul
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12/08/04
Namelessnumberheadman bring clicks, blips and buzz to Southpaw.
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12/02/04
They Had to Change Their Name But Their Noise Remains the Same.
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November 2004
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11/23/04
The Flesh Don't Give a Shit as Long as you Dance Like a Punk
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11/17/04
The Double Either Frustrate or Elate: You Can Be the Judge
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11/10/04
Menomena: Electro-Emo Happiness
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11/03/04
The Wonderful Weird Deerhoof Will Cuddly Rock You To Death
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October 2004
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10/27/04
The Detachment Kit Bring Glory to the Best City Other Than NYC.
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10/20/04
The Blood Brothers Rock 2 Shows at the Bowery. Prepare.
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10/13/04
The Thermals: Happy Rock Sans Cheese
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10/07/04
Chicken Soup for the Explosions in the Sky Soul
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September 2004
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09/29/04
Brooklyn's Parts and Labor are eclectically electric.
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09/22/04
A heart exposed: Her Space Holiday plays true emo
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09/15/04
Legendary Lungfish plays North Six
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June 2004
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06/16/04
Lightning Bolt: Unparalleled Decibel Destruction
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