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Formed: In Philadelphia, 1999.
Sounds like: Listening to a hardcore pop-history geek’s iPod on random after smoking a blunt.
For fans of: My Morning Jacket’s more psychedelic
side, Langh
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Lost Lander makes a little magic for the throwaway world.
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“Did you do the planetarium yet?” asks Matt Sheehy, the
singer-songwriter behind Lost Lander, as he squeezes his lanky frame
into my Hyundai Sonata and spots a copy of his new album sitting on
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Laura Gibson learns a few lessons from rock ‘n’ roll...and basketball.
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Laura Gibson seemed an unlikely candidate to show a
beastly side when she competed in And And And’s basketball tournament
last year. The slender, soft-spoken singer-songwriter is known for
swa
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Formed: 1999 in Montreal.
Sounds like: Orchestral punk epics drawn from sorrow, desolation and unease.
For fans of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, Mount Eeri
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All Neal Morgan wants to do is play drums and sing. Good thing he sounds amazing doing just that.
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[DRUM-’N’-VOICE] When Neal Morgan walks into Stepping
Stone Cafe for our interview, his body freezes and his face tightens
with puzzlement. Then he points a finger into the air and his face
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Don’t fear the Reaper—even if it’s a really convincing-looking Reaper.
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“A lot of black-metal bands have an
agenda where they actually say, ‘We want you to kill yourself,’” bemoans
Ghost’s frontman. “We don’t have an agenda. Our uppermost goal is not
t
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Formed: 1988 in Riverside, Calif.
Sounds like: Cheech and Chong’s horn-metal novelty
classic “Earache My Eye” sped up until the music almost can’t keep up
with itself, overlaid with shout
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[GIRL-GROUP PUNK] Before the band even truly existed, the
Suicide Notes staged a photo shoot. It was the idea of Jessi Garver, one
of the group’s three female singers and, other than fellow voca
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There’s a whole lot to love behind Youth Lagoon’s wall of sound.
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[BOISE BEDROOM POP] Boise native Trevor Powers is not
scared of blending in with the crowd. At first listen, his debut album
as Youth Lagoon, drenched in damping effect and reverb, sounds like
a
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[FOLK-STEP] It’s an unseasonably bright January day;
sunlight pours through the windows of Caffe Vita and backlights Ben
Darwish’s ’fro. The local keyboardist-composer, 27, has a cerebral...
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