Feature: Band of the Week
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Crosby Loggins— Let's be kind and not mention Lisa-Marie Presley...
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Interview: Band of the Week - Crosby Loggins— He may have begun life as the privileged son of an internationally acclaimed rock star, but Crosby is no spoiled wannabe.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Jay Nash— Down-to-earth, playful, witty, and occasionally profound, grounded but sentimental, sensual but intelligent, romantic but only in passing. A superb album.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Jay Nash— With hints of alt-country nostalgia, and swimming in acoustic melodies...
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Interview: Band of the Week - Rachael Sage— Intelligent, witty, and upbeat, Sage managed to be engaging and whimsical while always maintaining a professional demeanour.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - The Dollyrots— The Dead Kennedys love child with Gwen Stefani, nannied by The Go-Go's, playing tag with The B-52's.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Dollyrots— Because they really are awesome.
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Interview: Band of the Week — Suffrajett— Boil down the fiercest rock and roll formula, add in an amazing woman vocalist, and you have the perfect band - You have Suffrajett, people!
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Interview: Band of the Week - 2nd Day Crush— 2DC’s effervescent brand of pop is radio friendly without being insipid.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - The Bittersweets— This debut album is one of the strongest and most surprisingly mature albums from a young band I have heard.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Bittersweets— A sound that isn’t too country and not too rock and roll. Think Rilo Kiley without the twang or Shawn Colvin minus the twee.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Girl In A Coma— Think Indigo Girls, Siouxsie Sioux and Shirley Manson in a dark alley kicking the shit out of the Pixies.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Girl In A Coma— The first band of the year, and they will knock you on your ass. It is a portent of things to come.
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Band Of The Week's Top Ten Indie Bands of 2007— 2007 was an excellent year here at Band of the Week. This is a round-up by A.L. Harper and Michael Jones.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Dan Ferrari— Wow, wow and wow again. He's all that AND he makes my panties wet.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Dan Ferrari— Amazing lyrics, fabulous musicianship, and great energy. What more do you need?
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Slow Runner— Slow Runner is what happens when Star Wars or AV geeks grow up and form a band... after pulling a sword from a stone.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Stealing Jane— Say Something is a rollicking romp through rock/blues/R&B influenced ska-pop.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Stealing Jane— Stealing Jane’s ska-pop is a high energy, harmony-filled, blues-infused sound that moves a person to jump up and dance on a chair.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Carmen & Camille— The duo's genuine sound can move them ahead of the pack.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Carmen & Camille— Pop moving to rock equals success.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Matt Jenkins— Tall, curly blonde hair, big green eyes, charming, witty, intelligent, and flirty.... and I think he sings or something...
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The Ruse Live at the Viper Room Free For Download— The Ruse put their brand new EP Live at the Viper Room up for download, free of charge for, the entire month of November.
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Music Review : Band of the Week - The Trucks— You'll like it, you'll love it....
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Trucks— The Trucks' drive has almost certainly put them on the road to the big time.
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Music Review: Band of the Week — Inverse Order— Want to get to know a band before they make it big? Come get to know Inverse Order, then!
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Interview: Band of the Week — Inverse Order — I only hope that I’ve managed to string enough coherent words together through the haze of Nyquil to inspire...
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Commons— On their fourth album and better than ever.
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Band of the Week: Interview - Wil Maring— Singer uses memories to reignite classic folk music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Flaws— The Flaws' sound is filled with strong melodies enveloped in synth, glittering, jangly guitars, and rich, fervid vocals.
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Interview: Band Of The Week: Composer Rene Gruss— This composer may not be a band in the strictest sense of the word, but he did work with a real orchestra, and that's close.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Backyard Tire Fire— This Bloomington, Illinois-based trio delivers honest, original songs.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week: Sons Of William— Stark’s mind-blowing talent with a guitar is matched by his mellow, smoky, make-my-panties-wet vocals followed closely by his ability...
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Interview: Band Of The Week: Sons Of William— The lyrics are, you can’t help thinking to yourself, intellectually above this bar’s usual crowd.
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Music Review: Band of the Week Dying to Know - The Obvious— Ten tracks of a blend of hard rock and alternative metal that is loud and bold while still being melodious and intricate.
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Interview: Band of the Week – Dying to Know— Toldeo, Ohio's own Dying to Know takes time out of their practice schedule to talk about their album, their live show, their fans, and their music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Yoshi— Yoshi are on their way up… I just hope the neighbour boy fixes the hall light before he makes it big and moves out.
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Concert Review: Band of the Week - The Evens — The Evens played a Syracuse sweatbox on June 26th, but the show was one of the best this reviewer has ever attended.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Evens— The Evens' Amy Farina chats with us about her band and art.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Sacred Heart— As someone who has seen the band live many times, it pains me to think that their live sound still has not been captured just yet.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Cary Brothers— Brothers music reflects his life spent in the dappled light of greatness.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Cary Brothers— The idea of Brothers being a weekend, closet Elvis impersonator is rather charming.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Chromatics— Italo-disco was a European strain of disco and didn’t suffer the violent death it did in America but allowed to openly grow.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Chromatics— I still hadn’t located him and was beginning to believe he wouldn’t show at all. Jilted by yet another rock star? Why me?
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Music Review: Sunspot - Neanderthal— Even a musical Neanderthal like me has to learn to love Sunspot's latest effort, "Neanderthal."
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Band of the Week Interview: Sunspot— Smart musicianship + Lyrics that border on Snarky and Pop + Genuine love of playing music = Sunspot.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Kate Voegele— Kate is the genuine article, despite the body that could stop traffic.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Steve Carlson— Groovin On The Inside is a vibrant album that crosses genres to find a warm, snug place in your heart.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Steve Carlson— Mixed genres, a mellow resonant voice, awe inspiring musical talent. Some people have all the luck.
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Music Review: Sam Yahel, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade - Yaya3 — Even when these guys are just having fun, the jazz they make is seriously good.
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Music Review: Korben - Steady Fools— If the Cranberries had married the Foo Fighters and had children. Basement rock at it's finest.
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Music Review: Sam Yahel Trio - Truth And Beauty — Yahel stakes out a new approach to the jazz organ trio with a couple of sympathetic and very capable colleagues.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Sam Yahel— Find out what sets Yahel apart from other Hammond B-3 players.
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Music Review: Suffrajett — Black Glitter— Ever wondered if it were still possible for a band to blow you away?
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Korben— Ever had a good tip from a complete stranger? Read about Korben, the best tip I ever got.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - End of a Year— Albany, NY hardcore band End of a Year has that DC punk aesthetic, but a hard-driving hardcore sound.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - End Of A Year— This Albany hardcore band is currently touring Europe and is working on its sophomore release for Revelation Records.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Circus— This is a band that should be huge, very soon.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Vintage— Vintage have a sound and style dripping with the stench of a groovy retro clothing shop.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Everybody Else— Carrick Moore Gerety - "I didn't want to get pigeonholed into that power-pop nerd genre".
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - The Nick Black Band - Hollow— Nick Black's Hollow, proves that an album cannot be judged by title alone — as it is an album filled with damn good music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week — The Nick Black Band— You never know when you'll be surfing the internet only to accidentally discover an eventual BOTW artist, now do you?
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Working Title— After an amicable split with Universal Records, The Working Title are unsigned and therefore qualify for the Band of the Week.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Attica State— The Beatles after being bitten, chewed, swallowed and digested by Nirvana.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Unholy— East Coast doom-metal band Unholy's Jonathan Dennison talks about music, touring and songwriting.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Willie Herath - Cohgie Never Landed— Willie Herath has created aurally, the smell of summer and the beach with lively, fresh, animated music.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Willie Herath— Willie Herath's self-described “nod your head beach rock” is the epitome of summer music.
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Music Review: Band of the Week's Kate Schutt - No Love Lost— Smooth and silky pop-jazz that is sensual to the ear.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Kate Schutt— Independent Jazz artist, Kate Schutt talks about her music, her record label, and what inspires her.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Heidi McCurdy— Vancouver, British Columbia-based jazz-pop vocalist by the name of Heidi McCurdy
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Stonesthrow— The sarcasm flowed as freely as the beer, as it always will when talking to any Scot. I laughed so hard I almost peed.
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Music Review: Band of the Week In Theory - This is It— Applying labels to this young band is harder than you might think.
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Interview: Band of the Week – In Theory— "A lot of people try to box us into a genre and we really don't like that."
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Argonauts— A healthy mix of punk and ska.
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Music Review: Band of the Week, Dollar Sent— How long does it take to blow your mind and eardrums? 23 minutes, if your band is named Dollar Sent.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Dollar Sent— This week's BOTW is a rock monster from Brighton. You'll love 'em!
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Interview: Band of the Week - Airline— Eclectic sounds, softly moving, pensive lyrics sung in a moody, atmospheric way; Airline make songs that can lift you up and make you think.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Appearance— Frontman Alan Oakes talks about his man-crush on Rick Springfield among other things.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Andrew Osenga— Christian music is a music journalist's idea of hell. But Andrew Osenga doesn't make Christian music. Praise jebus!
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Music Review: Green River Ordinance - The Beauty Of Letting Go— Every once in a while you come across a band so talented that you stand back, shake your head, and mutter in awe...
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Interview: Band of the Week - Andrew Osenga— Andrew’s tangled tapestry of sound and lyric paints an ardent, stirring picture of this deep, multifaceted and truly talented young man.
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Interview: Band of the Week - The Slides— The Slides bring a gently psychedelic atmosphere to their brand of retro chic Brit-pop.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Of Fate And Chance— Looking for a new band that shines with talent enough for two? Meet OF Fate And Chance!
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Interview: Band of the Week - Of Fate And Chance— Get to know a young band that looks and sounds like it has a bright future ahead.
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Music Review: Band of the Week's Self Against City - Telling Secrets To Strangers— Each song covers emotions and topics one might hear whispered between close friends.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Self Against City— "You can access any band in the world from your chair in your bedroom."
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Interview: Band of the Week - Steve Adey— It is cold, desolate and more beautiful in its bleak, natural romance than the violent, wind swept moors of Wuthering Heights.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Tim Pare— Trans-Siberian Express has a unique intimacy and personal-confession feel, with just a whiff of religious melodrama.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Tim Pare— Surrounded by violent, barbaric, drunken Russian conscripts and with a knife to his neck that Tim began writing his debut EP.
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Band of the Week: Best Indie Artists of 2006— I have chosen five of the best indie bands, featured in Band of the Week, for the year 2006. Plus two honourable mentions.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Green River Ordinance— Green River Ordinance are intelligent, diverse, dynamic alt/pop/rock with tons of heart and soul.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Throwback Suburbia— I have no doubt one day we will see them in the sky, suburbia in the stars.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Throwback Suburbia— Blending their pop sensibilities with a rock & roll attitude they manage to capture the essence of retro-pop and make it modern rock.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - The Big Provider - Start Making A Scene— Buoyant, dynamic, raw, sometimes boyish, sometimes mature always accomplished, Start Making A Scene are all these things.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - The Big Provider— The Big Provider are a catharsis of modern pop music with a sound that is overflowing with ceaseless energy, pure, untainted and raw.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - Phil Ayoub - Schoolbus Window Paper Heart— This amazing debut album is filled with beautiful, deep, often playful lyrics, acoustic guitar, jangly synth, and Ayoub’s earthy, gentle, sensual vocals.
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Interview: Band Of The Week - Phil Ayoub— After discussing apple crumble, his dog Bailey, VH1's Surreal Life and ancient pornography our interview started like this…
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Music Review: 3 Pill Morning - Life Dynamic— Life Dynamic has rhythmic beats and clear, melodious, razor-sharp vocals.
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Interview: Band of the Week - 3 Pill Morning— "Get it on the road and get it going."
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Band Of The Week: Deccatree— Deccatree’s story starts with front man and founder Chris Karn, a visionary and deeply thoughtful man with a quiet, humble tranquility about him.
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Band Of The Week: Kelwan— Kelwan has an alt.rock sound reminiscent of the late 90s, but with a little Metallica thrown in.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Locksley— Style, substance, savoir faire, dynamic magnetism, brutally hot men and timeless song writing Locksley manage to encompass it all.
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Band Of The Week: Locksley— Co-frontman Jesse Laz could have charmed my panties off, but that’s another story.
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Music Review: Naomi Sommers - Flying Through and Hypnotized— It’s the kind of music that creeps up on you quietly and takes you pleasantly by surprise.
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Band of the Week: Naomi Sommers— Sometimes the best discoveries are the ones you weren’t expecting to make.
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Music Review: Band of the Week, Emelee – Songs from Kiss And Tell— There is a common theme - Love.
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Interview: Band of the Week - Emelee— "It gets really busy. Sometimes I just want to sleep."
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - The Hereafter— "I’d take you upstairs and lock the door and I wouldn’t care when your parents heard you screaming for more.”
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Band Of The Week: The Hereafter— After talking about the real meaning of the word vagina, the “Master Cleanser” diet, and John Mayer, we had the following conversation.
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Band Of The Week: The New Amsterdams— Matt Pryor talks about The Get Up Kids, The New Amsterdams, Kansas, and watching other men pee.
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Music Review: Band of the Week - The Crash Moderns— The Crash Moderns five track self-titled EP is the absolute ideal of flirtatious, effervescent, sublime pop music.
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Band Of The Week: The Crash Moderns— This five-piece, power-pop band have a sound that is an exciting mix of retro-pop and modern pop-rock.
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Band Of The Week: Music Review - Aaron McMullan— Aaron’s deep voice is subtly passionate in its soft, genteel melancholy. It smoulders with deep regret and unrequited lust.
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Band Of The Week: Aaron McMullan a.k.a. The Duke De Mondo— Aaron: "So yeah… (laughing) I’m naked when I sing."
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Band Of The Week: Music Video Review - American Princes "Never Grow Old"— Take a look at the American Princes new video. It's innovative and ingenious... something you could make at home or school, while doodling in class..
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Band of the Week: American Princes— It's like making love outside in the pouring rain. You can imagine how very excited I was.
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Interview/Music Review: Band of the Week - The Ruse— I learned they had recorded it on a laptop in a closet, “With clothes on the floor and everything”.
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Band Of The Week: The Ruse— I expected the stereotype: arrogant, narcissistic, shallow. But John Dauer is intelligent, articulate, deeply thoughtful and has a charming sense of humour.
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Band Of The Week: The Perfect Addiction— They have strong Christian beliefs but they consider themselves rockers, who are Christian, making mainstream music.
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Band Of The Week: Big Strides— Not the best decision I have ever made, because they said yes, and ambushed me right back.
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Music Review: Band Of The Week - Futuro— Bloc Party being held hostage by Audioslave and forced to dance, while Franz Ferdinand watch and laugh!
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Interview: Band of the Week - Futuro— Glasgow based Futuro are three of the nicest men I have ever met, and they still rock.
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CD Review: Attic Lights— So what happens when you mix alt.coutry with indie rock? Attic Lights.
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Band Of The Week: Attic Lights— Any more rope and we're going to hang ourselves.
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Blogcritics News: New Music Feature - Band Of The Week— We will be featuring a different (preferably unsigned) band every week. But we need bands!
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