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<title>The Jackson 5</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:24:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Jackson 5's bubblegum-flavored soul helped Motown usher in the 1970s with a string of chart toppers that included hits such as "ABC," "I Want You Back" and "The Love You Save." Raised in Gary, Indiana by devout Jehovah's Witnesses, the brothers endured the kind of strict upbringing that groomed them perfectly for the "Motown machine." And what a well-oiled machine it was! The Jackson 5's likenesses could be found on everything from lunchboxes to dolls to Saturday Morning cartoons. But by 1974, the machine showed signs of wear and tear: songs weren't charting as highly as they had previously, and demand for Jackson 5 merchandise was drying up. The machine broke down completely when, frustrated by Motown's refusal to allow the brothers to write or choose their own material, the Jackson 5 parted ways with the label and signed with Epic. Motown won a breach of contract suit, thus retaining the rights to the name Jackson 5. The brothers changed their named to the Jacksons. The Jackson 5 were inducted into the Rock and Roll hall of Fame in 1997.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>The Monkees</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:24:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[They may have been prefabricated to steal pocket change from the pockmarked teen masses, but the Monkees were the best darn prefab rock band ever created by cynical cigar chompers (and counterculture director Bob Rafelson). Who cares if "Last Train to Clarksville" is an inferior rewrite of the Beatles' "Day Tripper," or if the Monkees were just an inferior, third-generation pastiche of the Fab Four? Their songs were fantastic -- from the hard-rocking drive of "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" to the dreamy Psychedelic splendor of "Porpoise Song." Could any of today's teenybopper confections release anything as brilliant as the Kinks-esque "Randy Scouse Git," which goes from sunny, British music hall to slamming Pre-Punk and back again? Despite all the nattering nabobs of negativity who say the Monkees never wrote their own tunes, they did pen a considerable number of their songs. They also relied on the talents of proven Brill Building scribes such as Goffin/King, Neil Diamond and Boyce/Hart. The TV show they were created to front remains a fun time capsule, and their bizarre, acid-drenched movie <I>Head</I> is still a creative tour de (unfocused) force. What does it say about modern pop music that the Prefab Four made better music than today's "uncompromising" artistic geniuses?
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>The Association</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Association's place in rock history is an interesting one. Nowadays, the band is considered nothing more than an oldies act forever associated with AM pop. However, along with the Byrds and the Mamas and the Papas, the sextet emerged from Los Angeles' folk-rock scene of the mid-'60s. The Association sounded a bit more saccharine than their contemporaries, yet they gained instant street cred with their second single, "Along Comes Mary," a British Invasion-inspired nugget that sparked controversy when more than a few squares claimed the song extolled the virtues of cannabis (aka Mary <i>Jane</i>). In an attempt to cement their rep in the burgeoning underground, the Association played the Monterey International Pop Music Festival in the summer of 1967. At the same time, the group shared little in common with Janis and Jimi. Scoring one <i>Billboard</i> smash after another, including the radio staples "Cherish" and "Windy," the Association favored a mix of smooth harmonies, lush strings and punchy brass, a sound that would prove influential on soft-rock acts like Bread and Air Supply. By the early '70s the band's glory days were behind it, yet it continues to record and tour to this day.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Nancy Sinatra</title>
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<category>'60s Oldies</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra's offspring never inherited their father's galaxy-sized talent, but daughter Nancy has had the most interesting career and her work has been consistently strong in its own right. Nancy Sinatra started off having a nice run as a go-go crazed pop/rock singer and got hooked up with the eccentric, off-kilter songsmith Lee Hazelwood in 1966. Together, they released a whole slew of oddly tough and sexy singles, including the immortal chart-topper "These Boots Were Made For Walking" and the theme to one of the best of the James Bond pictures, <i>You Only Live Twice</i>. Considered kitsch in its day, Sinatra and Hazelwood's dramatic, Technicolor recordings have aged very well and are now widely covered and imitated by many of today's musical acts. Tan and curvaceous, Sinatra was the PG-rated, American version of Brigitte Bardot (and Nancy could at least carry a tune), but her career faded during the later half of the Nixon years. She made headlines in the '90s by proudly appearing in Playboy at more than twice the age of the average playmate and the stunt worked -- Nancy Sinatra is recording and touring once again, even recording songs written especially for her by fans such as Morrissey and Pulp's Jarvis Cocker. Sinatra has also written two massive, coffee-table-sized tomes about her father and has acted in numerous films and TV shows over the years.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>The Partridge Family</title>
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<category>Teen Idols</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:57:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Partridge Family were derided as manufactured stars during their early-1970s heyday, but today they are loved for that very fact. After the Monkees, they put the "fab" in prefab. David Cassidy, the object of every nymphet's budding desires, may have led the TV group, but the Family was really the product of a crack team of cigar-chomping businessmen, Brill Building songwriters like Goffin/King, and top LA session players. The very professionalism of this behind-the-scenes team ensured some of the best, saccharine-rich bubblegum pop to come out of pre-Watergate America. Such hits as "I Think I Love You," still sound great oozing out of a pink plastic transistor radio, but who can remember any of today's teen hits two months after the fact? Any rock group backed by Shirley Jones has to be worth its weight in Danny Bonaduce's non-prescription pharmaceuticals. "Come On Get Happy?" Love to.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Herman's Hermits</title>
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<category>British Invasion</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Herman's Hermits are the band you hear in between "At the Hop" and "Walk Away Renee" on your local oldies station. A laundry list of hits has secured them a permanent place in the rock 'n' roll psyche. With lead singer/faint-inducing heartthrob Peter Noone up front mewling like Oliver Twist, Herman's Hermits hit with bracingly sweet pop songs that had a skiffle-ized beat and Beatles-bandwagon harmonies. They were a more parentally palatable version of the Beatles, with tamer material and a good-boy image. "I'm Into Something Good" and the sublime "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter" were followed up with the nerdily rocking "I'm Henry the VIII, I Am" -- songs destined for perpetually nostalgic rotation. These days Peter Noone spends his time making fun of himself as he hosts the occasional special on VH-1.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>The Archies</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although critics and disgruntled music fans are quick to point out the shallowness of the current music circuit, shallow, sugary, manufactured pop has been a mainstay in the music industry for years. Take, for instance, the Archies. Using top Brill Building songwriters and session musicians, entertainment Svengali Don Kirshner attempted to recreate his success with the Monkees by completely fabricating a band out of the popular cartoon series. The track "Sugar Sugar" ended up being one of the best-selling singles of the '60s and opened the doors for other prefab artists like Josie and the Pussycats and Banana Splits. Musically, it was formulaic, catchy Bubblegum that dealt with weighty issues like sugar, spice and hot dogs, but it opened the industry up to the idea that music can be sold as a commodity without a genuine artist behind it -- a fact that does not go unnoticed today.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>The Osmonds</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Often thought of as a Caucasian version of the Jackson 5, the Osmonds are a Mormon family of Colgate-polished smiles who took over bubblegum pop music in the early '70s, with youngest singer Donny as the main attraction (as was Michael of the Jacksons). After the family's popularity began to wane and pages of <I>Tiger Beat</I> magazine began to yellow, Donnie and his younger sister Marie enjoyed a few seasons of hosting their own variety show on prime time television. Other members of the family have gone on to pursue careers in country music.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Cowsills</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Partridge Family inspiration returns to Bubblegum psych-pop territory thirty years later. Tight harmonies, guitars, and who could forget the tamborine? Catchier than the common cold.]]></description>
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<title>Tommy Roe</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:24:41 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Donny Osmond</title>
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<category>Adult Contemporary</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Decades after his initial success, Donny Osmond proves he can still shake out hot pop songs. He's updated his sound, now singing with an out-of-breath urgency that brings Michael Jackson to mind. His songs' tight beats and catchy, electronic rhythms prove to be ingratiating as they cling to your brain like an unshakeable groupie.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Strawberry Alarm Clock</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:30:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Strawberry Alarm Clock, like the Association, were a Los Angeles band that fell somewhere between folk-rock, psychedelia and goofy AM pop. They're generally considered a one-hit wonder, and their 1967 smash "Incense and Peppermints" virtually defines popular -- if utterly frivolous -- notions about the Summer of Love: <i>it's all rose-tinted granny glasses, trippy lights and sitars, man</i>. Believe it or not, Strawberry Alarm Clock cooked up a batch of far sillier-sounding tunes, including "Sit With the Guru" and, get this, "Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow." Despite a penchant for Cheez Whiz, the group created some wonderfully trippy ear candy that would go a long way to define the cheap but intoxicating wonder that is bubblegum pop. "Black Butter Present," for example, is no "Crimson and Clover," but it does boast some of the most over-the-top and unwieldy sound effects this side of <i>Magical Mystery Tour</i>. Obviously, the group didn't last long; after a handful of albums, including an excellent soundtrack for the Russ Meyer flick <i>Beyond the Valley of the Dolls</i>, Strawberry Alarm Clock called it a day. The only subsequent activity has been a smattering of oldies tours and one-off reunion gigs.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Paper Lace</title>
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<category>Lite Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Bobby Sherman</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:51:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Teen Idol Bobby Sherman hit it big in the late '60s and early '70s with "Julie, Do Ya Love Me," "La La La (If I Had You)" and "Little Woman." Characterized by big horns, elaborate string arrangements and Sherman's indelible charm, his music is still celebrated in numerous fan clubs.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Edison Lighthouse</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:14:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Edison Lighthouse flashed briefly in the pan with 1970's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Grows)" then dropped out of sight. The band's centerpiece, Tony Burrows, went on to record a number of similarly vapid pop songs under different aliases. Their covers of songs like "Big Girls Don't Cry" are so bad, they're fascinating.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Tommy James</title>
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<category>Lite Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:41:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Brady Bunch</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:24:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>1910 Fruitgum Company</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:08:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Ohio Express</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:45:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Tony Burrows</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Jaggerz</title>
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<category>Blue-Eyed Soul</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Seventies boogie-rock band now goes the blusey R&B route, adding horns to their danceable blues grooves. Perfect music for dancing at blues festivals.]]></description>
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<title>Donny &amp; Marie Osmond</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>David Geddes</title>
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<category>Lite Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:35:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Cuff Links</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Brighter Side Of Darkness</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:17:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>White Plains</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>The Five Americans</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Push Kings</title>
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<category>Teen Beat</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it seems like the Push Kings should have a love-hate relationship with their music. Live (and recorded), the band explode like an electrified centerfold from <i>Teen Beat</i> magazine. It's sad that they don't seem to identify with their inner teen idols, because they play it up so damn well. Imagine someone taking 1970s bubblegum pop and pushing that sound as far as it can go. What if the Osmonds actually had substantial songs? Could you imagine what it would be like if the DeFranco Family were obsessed with George Harrison's <i>All Things Must Pass</i>? What if Leif Garrett was more into the Beach Boys than the base pipe? The answers to all these questions can be found within the smile-inducing, candy-flossed music of the Push Kings (or in Hanson, but the PK guys are much cooler).
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Bell And James</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:59:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Records</title>
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<category>Power Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[England's The Records found themselves with a minor Power Pop hit with their effectively catchy, dreamy "Starry Eyes." Their jangling, distorted guitars and soft British-accented vocals helped lead the late 1970s Power Pop wave in the U.K.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Shaun Cassidy</title>
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<category>Teen Idols</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Chrystals</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:37:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jefferson</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Middle Of The Road</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:42:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Perhaps best-known for their bubbly "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep," this aptly named grouped were quite popular in Europe during the early 1970s. Acoustic guitar-based rock with plenty of sunny harmonies and carefree vocals.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Deborah Gibson</title>
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<category>Teen Beat</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:57:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Creamy.dk</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:28:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Dawn</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not the metal band. This Dawn really lives up to its name with bright, optimistic-even-when-unhappy Dance Pop. Lovely, vapor-thin vocals carry otherwise standard production.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Love Affair</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The DeFranco Family</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:05:02 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Bubble Gum Twins</title>
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<category>Bubblegum</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:51:17 -0700</pubDate>
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