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Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping: 7 Varieties
Set for release October 7 via Polyvinyl, Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping offers a new fifteen track effort in follow-up to last year's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?. Adding to the mystery of the strange track titles, Skeletal Lamping is being...
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Gringo Star's Tour & Debut Album
Gringo Star are set to release their debut album, All Y’all, this fall via My Anxious Mouth Records. In support of the album, produced by Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, The Hives, Animal Collective), Gringo Star have set a string of fall tour...
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Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Death Makes Some New FriendsColdplay’s fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, has graced the masses with excitement and confusion. The exciting part is that the legendary Brian Eno has produced the album. The...
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Spinto Band Do Europe with Frightened Rabbit
In support of their forthcoming Moonwink - which is due October 7 - The Spinto Band will hit the road. On a trek that will see them cover both sides of the Atlantic, Frightened Rabbit will be joining them for the stateside leg. Here's their...
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Yeasayer On Tour
Before returning to the studio in early 2009 to record the follow-up to the acclaimed All Hour Cymbals, Brooklyn world rockers will hit the road in October. Here's where they're headed: 10/22/2008 Paradise, Boston 10/24/2008 Le National, Montreal...
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Wolfmother's Rhythm Section Exits
Following longstanding frictions, keyboardist/bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett have left Wolfmother. Universal Music Australia made a statement saying, "Please understand that in spite of their best efforts over a long period of time,...
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Lollapalooza 2008 Coverage
Tension about politics, economics, and the environment has the U.S. (and the world, natch) in something of a vicelike grip. Even as it seems less bold and brave enough to critique this atmosphere directly, music thankfully still manages to generate...
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Lollapalooza 2008: Sunday, August 3
The Whigs: With pundits elsewhere already putting checkmarks next to their homebase of Athens, Ga., as well as their more-than-occasional sonic resemblance to The Replacements, everything about The Whigs sounds at once promising and...
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