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<title>The Killers</title>
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<category>Post-Punk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:53:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What does it mean that one of the early 21st century's best British bands is actually from Las Vegas? They might not fit into a convenient theory, but the Killers haven't wasted much time since their formation in 2002: Even before their debut album, <I>Hot Fuss</I>, appeared on Island in mid-2004, they were already selling out headlining shows in England. Named for a fictional group in a New Order video, the Killers practice a tense, stylish brand of rock in the vein of U2 and Bruce Springsteen, with lyrical left turns that recall classic Bowie. With their roots in glam and new wave, and their undeniable talent, the Killers have helped breathe fresh air into the '00s alt rock scene.
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<title>Yeah Yeah Yeahs</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2000, after guitarist Nick Zinner and vocalist Karen O met in a bar and began writing songs on an acoustic guitar together. They brought in an old friend (Brian Chase) on the drums, and decided to forgo the bass all together in an attempt to make as much of a punked-up, glammed-up racket as possible. An EP came out in 2001, when they also made their first live appearances opening up for the White Stripes. As the touring continued, so did the press. People were drawn to Karen O's punk rock/<I>Flashdance</I>-style of dress, not to mention her vocals, which could moan and shriek with passion and suffering. The band itself ran from dance-oriented 4/4 beats toward choppy post-punk; songs are clunky, spastic and melodic. Their debut album, <I>Fever Too Tell</I>, came out in 2003 and features the hit "Maps." They followed up that success with 2006's <i>Show Your Bones</i>. For their third release, 2009's <i>It's Blitz</i>, the trio took a slightly different approach, washing their gritty guitar rock in a wave of synths and dance beats.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>MGMT</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:55:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[MGMT (pronounced Management) are a restless electronic-rock duo. The two members -- Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser -- came together in 2002 while attending Wesleyan University in Connecticut as art students. In 2005, they released the catchy synth scrum "Time to Pretend," which became an underground hit and led to their being signed by Columbia Records. Their debut, <i>Oracular Spectacular</i>, a collection of sweeping, electronic Flaming Lips-style noise-pop songs, was released in 2007. Critical and popular accolades for the band reached a high at the CMJ Music Marathon a few weeks after the album's release. A tour alongside Of Montreal and a remix from Justice helped the band continue to merge its twin tendencies towards psychedelic pop and electro.
- Philip Sherburne]]></description>
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<title>Arcade Fire</title>
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<category>Baroque Pop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:13:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At once elegant and driven, the Arcade Fire's music shatters categories like "emo" and even "indie rock." The Montreal-based band earned lofty praise quickly, forming in mid-2003 and winning a large number of fans within a year and a half. Many of these adorers arrived along with the group's debut full-length release, <I>Funeral,</I> near the end of 2004. Voted Album of the Year by influential radio station KEXP, the record soon sold well over 100,000 copies (on the small North Carolina label Merge) and received the endorsements of David Bowie and David Byrne, the latter of whom was seen performing "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" with them onstage in 2005. If that didn't confer great power on this eccentric Canadian band's brutal and beautiful distorted noise collages, nabbing the cover of the Canadian edition of <I>Time</I> certainly signaled they'd arrived. The Arcade Fire formed around Win Butler and wife Regine Chassagne, soon growing to five official members and swelling on tour to nine. The combination of moodiness and joy in their semi-orchestral pop-rock coincided with a year in which several loved ones passed away (including Alvino Rey, veteran swing musician and grandfather of singer Butler and his brother, guitarist William) -- thus the title of <I>Funeral</I> and the music's reflection of ongoing life in the face of sadness. The group continued to tour and record throughout 2005, dazzling Europe and appearing at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago. After a scheduled trek through the States in the fall of that year, they returned to Quebec and a newly built studio in a former church, where they plotted their next musical instillation while fans bided time with a reissue of the rare early self-titled EP the Arcade Fire had released not all that long ago.
- Jaan Uhelszki]]></description>
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<title>The Dead Weather</title>
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<category>Garage Rock Revival</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not sated by the success of their other gigs, the members of the Dead Weather first came together for an on-the-fly jam session in early 2009. From there, the synergy sizzled, and a new group of alt-rock heavyweights was born. Between the lot is a lengthy resume: Jack White is also leader of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, not to mention an avid collaborator; Alison Mosshart offers her gritty howls as frontwoman for the Kills; Jack Lawrence plays an array of instruments plus bass guitar for the Raconteurs and the Greenhornes; and Dean Fertita lends his guitar and keyboard skills to bands like Queens of the Stone Age. With the Dead Weather, the prolific White proves his diverse skills, taking on drumming duties along with some guitar and vocals, while Mosshart, with her sly, suggestive rasp, leads her male charges through raw, bluesy garage rock inspired by classic-rock titans like Janis Joplin and Led Zeppelin. The band took no time getting its music out to the public, releasing its debut album, <i>Horehound</i>, in July 2009.
- Stephanie Benson]]></description>
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<title>Metric</title>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Currently based out of Toronto, indietronic act Metric actually formed in Brooklyn in 1998. Vocalist Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw met in a Toronto club after attending a concert by mutual friends and discovering they both hated the show. Their musical bonds established, the two mixed a few of their own songs together, creating what would become <I>The Mainstream</I>EP, a collection of demos. Upon moving to Brooklyn, they dubbed their project Metric after a sequence that Shaw played on his keyboard. A record deal (and the desire to escape their NYC hovel) then lead them to London. Yet in 2001 their first full-length, <I>Grow Up and Blow Away,</I> wasn't released due to legal conflicts. Returning to New York, they met drummer Joules Scott-Key (a Texan) and became a trio. However, it took two years before Metric put out their proper debut <I>Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?</I>, a disc full of new wave nods and punk-funk electronics. In 2005, the group released <I>Live It Out</I>, a record focused more on guitars than drum machines. The disc was so well-received it scored Metric a slot opening for the Rolling Stones, an experience they now call "surreal."
- Michele K-Tel]]></description>
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<title>The Avett Brothers</title>
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<category>Alt Country</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Thanks to relentless touring, a ferocious performance ethic and some flat-out kickass songs, the Avett Brothers have recently exploded onto the Americana scene. The young, mostly acoustic trio from Greenville, North Carolina comprises Scott and Seth Avett on banjo, guitar, and vocals, and honorary brother Bob Crawford on upright bass; they play Appalachian-style string band music with punk-rock abandon. If there was ever a band to make jaded rock 'n' rollers fall in love with acoustic music, it's the Avetts. From high and lonesome balladry to hip-hop inflected screamers to sweet, pop-grass harmonies, their sound spans styles and eras but always retains a disarming sense of honesty, passion and joy.
- Jonathan Zwickel]]></description>
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<title>TV On The Radio</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maybe one reason TV on the Radio gets listed among the best American bands of their generation is because their free-ranging sound deftly throws together a multitude of American musical traditions all at once. The avant-garde indie rock band started as a duo in 2001 when vocalist Tunde Adebimpe met multi-instrumentalist and producer David Andrew Sitek by coincidence. Though they were both recording material for individual projects, they joined efforts and brought in Sitek's brother Jason on drums for sessions that resulted in a self-titled debut released on Brooklyn micro indie Milk. On the strength of this recording, the band signed with Touch and Go, signed up guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone and released the <i>Young Liars</i> EP in 2003, which was met by unanimous critical praise. They toured throughout 2004 supporting their debut full length, <i>Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes</i>, which was similarly extolled. With dates opening for the Pixies and a fan in David Bowie, TV on the Radio's popularity outgrew their indie label, and in the summer of '06 they issued <i>Return to Cookie Mountain</i> on Interscope (featuring back up vocals from Bowie), which nabbed top spots on a number of year-end lists for 2006. They followed up with an equally solid album in 2008, <i>Dear Science</i>.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Bloc Party</title>
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<category>Punk-Funk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:21:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bloc Party's tense, impassioned, guitar-addled pop has made for moments of clarity and serenity within the post-punk revisionist manifesto of 2005. The group, however stylish and fashionable, put forth an air of strong, melodic sensibleness combined with a backbeat that is quietly manic and danceable. Basically presented to the public on the backs of their friends in Franz Ferdinand, the band found an audience among people that had no right to expect anything more than a copycat band. Instead, they've been given an evolving, unique outfit that knows how to mix up euphoria and propulsive (at times convulsive) rhythms.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Beirut</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Dec 2009 09:16:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Beirut interpret gypsy folk from an indie perspective. At the center of the group is young prodigy Zach Condon, who delves deep into traditional roots music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans as well as the mariachi of his native Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was first introduced to gypsy folk music through the films of director Emir Kusturica (<I>Time of the Gypsies</I>, <I>Underground</I>). Rather than trying to merely copy gypsy songs, he borrows its sounds to make emotive pop that's full of joy, sadness and longing. On the band's 2006 debut, <I>The Gulag Orkestar</I>, Condon takes a DIY approach where he sings and plays most of the instruments (saxophone, clarinet, mandolin, accordion and others). His very original take on regional folk brought Beirut critical acclaim, while their live shows -- complete with full brass and string sections -- drew international audiences throughout North America and Europe. On his sophomore album, <I>The Flying Club Cup</I>, with its decidedly French cabaret flair, Condon teamed up with multitalented violinist-producer Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy.
- Dan Shumate]]></description>
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<title>Interpol</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:53:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cold and calculated, Interpol's music also has a warm breeze of innovation that makes the NYC band one of the more interesting groups currently in operation. Much has been made of the group's similarity to outfits such as the Chameleons and Joy Division, and admittedly the first few listens reveal certain vocal similarities. But Interpol's methodic meditations on misery are more than simple revamps of those post-punk icons -- tracks like "PDA" have a jittery, lively emergency that could only come from the contemporary musical backdrop. Dark, anthemic, and filled with the kind of elliptical, faux-gothic lyrical padding that is likely to be scrawled on PeeChee folders by this year's disenchanted high school misfits, Interpol's music is as familiar as it is necessary.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Julian Plenti</title>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Julian Plenti is Paul Banks, best known for his other gig as lead singer for post-punk revivalists Interpol. Before churning out a solo album, Banks saw much success with his band, which already had three albums under its belt. His music under the name Julian Plenti was little heard of, though he'd been playing under the moniker off and on since 1998, around the same time Interpol formed in New York City. Nearly a decade later, he finally hooked up with Interpol's first label, Matador Records, to release his debut solo record, 2009's <I>Julian Plenti Is ... Skyscraper</I>. The album introduced a different side of Banks, albeit still dark. Softening the sharpness of Interpol's post-punk, Banks as Julian Plenti fills his melodies with layers of murky yet beautiful baroque instrumentation.
- Stephanie Benson]]></description>
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<title>The Bravery</title>
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<category>'00s Post-Punk</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:53:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nothing spurs a person to take crazy chances like being completely fed up with their life. Such was the case with Bravery frontman, Sam Endicott, who, in the midst of being a self-proclaimed bum, let go of his self-doubt and started up his own band -- hence the uplifting name. Up until this point, Endicott had been slinging bass in a number of bands, but never fronted any of them, let alone writing any of the songs! Gigs with like-minded New York bands the Strokes and Interpol sent the quartet's star into orbit. Two years later, Endicott and bandmates John Conway, Michael Zakarin, Mike H and Anthony Burulcich found themselves in the middle of a huge bidding war. With Island Records declared the winner, the Bravery went about touring the U.K. with bands such as the Libertines and Echo & the Bunnymen. By the time the band released their first single, "Unconditional," in late 2004, they were hotly-tipped as a band to watch in 2005 in both Britain and the United States.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Hot Chip</title>
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<category>Electropop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:13:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[An underground UK phenomenon rapidly moving their way up the international ranks, Hot Chip began as the two-man production team of Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard. The pair made beats and sang their soft falsettos in Goddard's bedroom and released their debut EP, <I>Mexico,</I> on a small London imprint in 2001. Hot Chip evolved their lazy, hip-hop inflected sound over the years, adding scraps of toy percussion and analog synths and taking on new members. They gained critical attention on the strength of 2005's <I>Coming on Strong</I>, their American debut, but it was 2006's Mercury Prize-nominated <I>The Warning</I> that exposed the band now a fulltime four-piece to larger audiences. While their albums are mostly laid back, toe-tapping disco affairs, their live shows are explosive and sweaty, especially for four pasty-white English guys playing synthesizers.
- Jonathan Zwickel]]></description>
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<title>Heartless Bastards</title>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:06:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ohio is cool because the state produced this very band. A lot of Ohio's indie bands sound like bar rockers; the Afghan Whigs, the Black Keys and Buffalo Killers all fit this description. So do the Heartless Bastards. In the early '00s, the Bastards became the talk of Cincinnati with their crunchy, bluesy fusion of garage rock and power pop. People especially fell for singer, songwriter and guitarist Erika Wennerstrom. The shadowy qualities lurking behind her voice, her persona and her aesthetics are blunt and gritty, like an abandoned parking lot whose surface has crumbled into a gnarled constellation of weeds. With help from the Black Keys, the group secured a deal with Fat Possum Records. Their first two albums, <i>Stairs and Elevators</i> and <i>All This Time</i>, are more or less studio interpretations of the band's killer live show. In contrast, 2009's <i>The Mountain</i> is a gutsy stab at evolution. Made after Wennerstrom relocated to Austin, Tex., where she put together a new lineup, the album finds her adding touches of British folk and country rock to the band's hard rock sound.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>The Hold Steady</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Even though the Hold Steady have won accolades as the "best bar band in America," the distinction is a slightly hopeful misnomer -- we should be so lucky to have every barroom outfit aspire to the raging, literate wail of the Brooklyn-via-Minneapolis group. Started by former Lifter Puller frontman Craig Finn in 2000, the band's muscular riffs (courtesy of fellow Lifter Puller alum Tad Kubler) demonstrate an admiration of '70s guitar warriors like AC/DC and Thin Lizzy. But every bit as crucial to the band's inimitable sound are Finn's badass, beer-soaked confessionals, which rage against the mundane trials of modern life through the trifurcate of rock 'n' roll's classic escape routes: sex, drugs and distorted guitars.
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>LCD Soundsystem</title>
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<category>Electronica/Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New Jersey native James Murphy started out as a drummer for such bands as Speedking and Pony, but he tired of the politics and posing of the American punk movement and developed an affinity for house. Teaming up with Mo' Wax founder Tim Goldsworthy, Murphy started making a name for himself as a producer for acts on their Death From Above (aka DFA) label, including the Rapture and Radio 4. As his expertise in fusing dance and punk-rock developed, Murphy began to work on his own compositions, resulting in "Losing My Edge" (2002). This amusing invective about musical elitism caught the ear of the critics and defined his signature sound: bleepy electronica with thick "real" basslines and Mark E. Smith-style vocals. Indeed, Murphy has been quoted as saying that "The Fall are my Beatles," even though he is worried that such slavish devotion to Smith's vocal technique will inevitably invite some form of castigation from the man himself. Such was the popularity of "Losing My Edge" that Murphy decided to release "Yeah" (2004), which is essentially him saying "yeah" over and over to deliberately confound fans expecting another clever lyrical diatribe. Challenging expectations is Murphy's manifesto: he sees LCD Soundsystem as "a laboratory for experiments on what a band should be."
- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>Deer Tick</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 10:13:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Much like fellow New York troubadours Langhorne Slim and Phosphorescent, singer-songwriter John McCauley, aka Deer Tick, crafts quirky Americana that's as influenced by Brit pop and indie rock as it is folk and country. Born and raised in Providence, R.I., McCauley is something of a phenom. He began writing, recording and releasing homemade CD-Rs and cassettes while still attending high school. This do-it-yourself mentality extends to most aspects of his career, including live shows, which he himself books and promotes. Freak-folk diva Jana Hunter eventually signed McCauley (now living in New York) to her Feow! label, which dropped his debut, <i>War Elephant</i>, in September 2007. The album, produced and financed by the artist, features a mix of solo recordings and tunes employing a backing band. Rock critics made more than a few comparisons to Townes Van Zandt and Neil Young, but the record also boasts touches of the La's and Violent Femmes, as well as vintage rock 'n' roll and AM pop a la Roy Orbison and Ritchie Valens. After lengthy stints on the road, McCauley assembled a new supporting cast and entered the studio to record <i>Born on Flag Day</i>, the follow-up to <i>War Elephant</i>.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>The Rural Alberta Advantage</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:01:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Deer Tick, the Donkeys, Delta Spirit, the Dreadful Yawns: What all these artists have in common is a love for filtering percussive indie pop through acoustic-based folk rock. Add to that list Canada's the Rural Alberta Advantage (wild name, right?). Hailing from Toronto, a metropolis that has produced more than its fair share of killer indie bands, the trio of Nils Edenloff, Amy Cole and Paul Banwatt emerged in 2005 from the ashes of several local favorites. After releasing a demo tape and an EP, the Rural Alberta Advantage found themselves in BoomBox Sound recording <I>Hometowns</I>, their debut album. Strong songwriting, peppy rhythms and Edenloff's earnest, brittle yelp gave the group an underground buzz throughout Canada, where they toured extensively for three years. That, of course, sounds like a never-ending grind, but the hard work paid off. In 2009 Nebraska's Saddle Creek label, founded by Conor and Justin Oberst, added the Rural Alberta Advantage to its already impressive stable of artists. To kick off the new relationship, Saddle Creek reissued <I>Hometowns</I>, a move that has given the record far greater exposure the second time around.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Black Lips</title>
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<category>Garage Rock Revival</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:13:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If surly, soused, and thoroughly southern garage punk is your game, then Atlanta's Black Lips are your kind of fellas. Cole Alexander (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica), Ben Eberbaugh (lead guitar), Jared Swilley (bass) and Joe Bradley (drums) came together as teenagers in 2000. They got a little attention for a couple of singles -- and even more for their rowdy, debauched live shows, which have included vomiting, urinating in each other's mouths and spitting pee at the audience, and setting their pubic hair on fire. Needless to say, they've been banned from a number of Georgia venues. They signed to Bomp! Records, recorded their first album in 2002 and prepared to take off on a tour of the East Coast and Midwest that would extend their bad reputation beyond the Bible Belt. Tragically, just before the album was released and the tour began, Eberbaugh was killed when a driver going the wrong way crashed into his car at a toll booth. The band continued as a three-piece, eventually hiring first Jack Hines and later Ian Brown as their fourth member.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>The Pains of Being Pure at Heart</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:36:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn should be renamed the Hipster Laboratory for Retro Research. Pick any underground music trend of the last 30 years, and the New York borough has produced a smattering of near-perfect clones. We all know about no wave and post-punk, so lets a look at twee: In addition to the Vivian Girls, there's Crystal Stilts, Cause Co-Motion! and the excellently named Pains of Being Pure at Heart. As with those other bands, the Pains reproduce the fuzzy, lo-fi pop of the Pastels, the Vaselines and Black Tambourine with startling precision. It all started in 2007 when the band came together specifically for the purpose of playing their friend Peggy Wang-East's birthday bash (who just so happened to be group's super-cute keyboardist). Not long after, they released their debut EP, which boasts one of the best song titles ever: "This Love Is F*ck*ng Right!" The Pains might come off all innocent, cuddly and, uh, pure, but don't let them fool you. They are razor-sharp stylists. Things don't get any more nod-and-wink wink self-conscious than the single "Kurt Cobain's Cardigan." The tune is a loose, two-layered homage to the Vaselines' "Son of a Gun" and Nirvana, who once covered the song.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>The Veils</title>
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<category>Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:14:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As the son of Barry Andrews (XTC, Shriekback), Veils' frontman Finn Andrews grew up heavily influenced by music. But life changed for him as a young boy: he and his mother moved New Zealand, where music became his means of escape. At 17, Andrews left school, and Auckland, and moved back to London. He eventually met up with Oliver Drake (guitar), Adam Kinsella (bass), and Ben Wollacott (drums), and the Veils were born. The band signed to U.K. indie Blanco Y Negro, but things between the band and the label became strained, and a court battle ensued. The Veils won the battle and were allowed to keep their recordings. Geoff Travis of Rough Trade then signed them to his label, which released <I>The Runaway Found</I> in 2004.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Sam Roberts</title>
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<category>Power Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:46:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Phosphorescent</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:05:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Clinic</title>
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<category>Post-Punk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Clinic</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[When Clinic debuted in 1997 with the single "IPC Sub-Editors Dictate Our Youth," the group sounded like some off-kilter art-punk group who cut their teeth on the Fall, Jamaican dub and the last few minutes of the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray." The band's rhythmic post-punk was completely out of step with the rest of the musical landscape, and they seemed destined to become one of the first few great, original groups of the new millennium. The fact that they all wore surgical masks was perhaps the only shtick; the music itself was vibrant and totally original. Their 2001 release, <i>Internal Wrangler</i>, helped remove any doubts about the band's unique vision, which infused subterranean, discordant punk with melodica solos and blasts of guitar. Both 2002's <i>Walking With Thee</i> and 2004's <i>Winchester Cathedral</i> contain plenty of the jagged spark that made their early records so vital. <i>Visitations</i> appeared in October 2006.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Daniel Johnston</title>
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<category>Homemade</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:20:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Texas-based Daniel Johnston has been releasing endearingly unrefined music to the public since he began unleashing home-recorded cassette tapes in 1980. Much of his cult following stemmed from these tapes as well as from the MTV coverage he received during the mid '80s. The finished results of Johnston's Lo-Fi tomfoolery have been covered by such seminal Indie Rock goblins as Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Yo La Tengo, Butthole Surfers and Half Japanese to name a few. Johnston's vivacious pop songs are usually laden with chiming guitar, clunky keyboards, distant rhythms, and a sometimes sinister, sometimes child-like perspective on life. Unlike his contemporaries (such as Lou Barlow), Johnston often seems too lost in his own Syd Barret-like condition to write jaded and cynical songs.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Pink Mountaintops</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Crystal Stilts</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Critics and bloggers have saddled Crystal Stilts with the same retro-dream pop tag as fellow New Yorkers the Vivian Girls, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Cause Co-Motion! and School of Seven Bells. But while all these groups crib from the Jesus and Mary Chain in one way or another, Crystal Stilts are the only ones interested in channeling the Reid brothers' on-the-nod detachment and hazy alienation. This isn't chirpy noise pop for young indie lovers quaking with anxiety; it's the sound of heavily medicated city rats who can wear shades at night without looking like total dorks. In keeping with its morose image, there's a dearth of hard biographical data regarding this cool little band. Apparently, Crystal Stilts were "discovered" by Hamish Kilgour of the Clean, a legendary post-punk band from New Zealand that helped create the reverb-soaked sound these New Yorkers emulate. After releasing several now hard-to-find singles and EPs, Crystal Stilts signed to Slumberland Records (also home to the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Cause Co-Motion!) and released their debut album, <i>Alight of Night</i>. Shortly thereafter drummer Frankie Rose ditched the Vivian Girls and joined the fray.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Boston Spaceships</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:14:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since the mid-1990s, Bob Pollard has created too many bands and side projects to count. It's kind of silly when you think about it. Most of them are really nothing more than Pollard and a bunch of indie dudes backing him up. Even Guided By Voices, around the time of <i>Mag Earwhig!</i>, morphed into a rotating cast of hired guns. "There is no difference," the indie legend once said. "I am Robert Pollard, and I am Guided By Voices." Boston Spaceships adhere to this arrangement. The group's output to date, a tuneful mixture of power pop and crunchy alt-rock (some of it dating back to the <i>Suitcase</i> years), is classic Pollard and could have easily been issued under his name alone. Also featuring the Decemberists drummer John Moen along with Chris Slusarenko (who played bass in the 2003-04 incarnation of Guided By Voices), Boston Spaceships find our hero eschewing the arty tendencies of his post-G.B.V. solo albums and going for more of a live-in-the-studio rock 'n' roll feel. After the release of the group's debut, 2008's <i>Brown Submarine</i>, Pollard even came out of his self-imposed retirement from touring.]]></description>
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<title>Arbouretum</title>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:51:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Rocket from the Crypt</title>
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<category>Post-Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:01:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[RFTC are punk's first music revue. Using terse lyrical content and blasts of distorted guitar as ringleaders, the band fills in the sideshow aspect of their music with a rockin' soul horn section and a myriad of influences as widespread as rockabilly and the MC5. The San Diego sextet is widely known for their incendiary live performances, complete with an abundance of both sheer noise and old-fashioned showmanship. RFTC grind out their torrid songs like a mid-'60s Garage Punk band -- noisy, ramshackle, and teetering on the edge of reckless abandon.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>The Manhattan Love Suicides</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:18:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Incredible Vickers Brothers</title>
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<category>Power Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:06:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Communique</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:54:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This Bay Area band has been performing together since the mid-1990s, when they were known as the more punk-driven American Steel. That group continued up until 2002, when songwriter Rory Henderson began working on more pop-oriented material, with bits of synth added in for a touch of New Wave flash. The group recorded these new songs as Communique and released their first EP, <I>A Crescent Honeymoon</I>, in 2003. Their first full-length, <I>Poison Arrows</I>, followed in 2004.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>The Woods</title>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">The Woods</rhap:artist>
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<title>Flying Canyon</title>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:28 -0800</pubDate>
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<category>'00s Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:47:30 -0800</pubDate>
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