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  Albums that have been stuck in my head at work

  09.30.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  + Have Heart – Songs to Scream at the Sun “She’s a song unsung She’s the wild orchid in your ugly swamp She’s a song unsung” These lyrics have been stuck in my head all week long.  It probably has something to do with how catchy their vocal patterns are.  No doubt you’ve heard about [...]

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  Native – Live at Scott’s House

  06.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Native rules live.  After they played I felt jealous because of how good they were (and how nice their guitar rigs were).  Super nice dudes also.  They’re finishing up their east coast tour with La Dispute pretty soon so go check their myspace to see if they’ll be in your area. ps.  These videos aren’t [...]

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  Pttrns + Fuckuismyname Split 7″

  06.11.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a split from two German bands that I had never heard of before today.  Very similar to Q and Not U/Les Savy Fav.  I’m digging Fuckuismyname’s track a bit more than Pttrns.  I haven’t heard “dance-punk” that I enjoy since Q and not U broke up.  Excellent.  Now I need to track down a [...]

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  My Heart to Joy at the Same Tone – Seasons in Verse

  05.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  [Audio clip: view full post to listen] We were lucky enough to play a stretch of shows with My Heart to Joy last summer near the tail end of our tour.  My Heart to Joy, who recently dropped ‘at the same tone’ from their name, play a mixture of emotional indie rock and 90′s Midwestern [...]

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  The Get Up Kids, Touche Amore, Photobomb, Jonas Brothers

  05.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  + The Get Up Kids Reunion Show – I’m a Loner, Dottie, A Rebel (via The Punk Guy) + Touche Amore – Touche Amore Touche Amore hails from LA.  They kind of remind me of Modern Life is War’s general disposition + Ruiner’s vocals & a bit of their instrumentation as well.  In other words, [...]

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  Fairweather – Lusitania

  10.25.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  1)  Fairweather – Lusitania [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “this town is a ghost town, of funerals and lets downs. The list of dead goes on and on and on. The sidewalks ache from the weight of holding, up broken hearts. I’m giving up on moving on. What used to fill these streets [...]

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  BMX kids with HUGE sound systems, New Maps and Atlases, Birthday Boyz

  08.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Not having a reason to wake up in the morning makes it very hard to go to sleep at a reasonable time.  I’m waking up early tomorrow morning though, to fish for rock fish. A)  Some kids in Queens soup up their bikes with gigantic sound systems.  At first I thought the idea was insanely [...]