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Breaking Heart-strings with a Broken Hand

Seeing the chandeliered interior of the Orpheum Theatre fill its seats with hoodie-clad, tattooed under-30s on Wednesday night was a strange sight indeed. The sheer
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Good Institution, Bad Religion

“Faith in your partner, your fellow men, your friends, is very important, because without it there’s no mutual component to your relationship, and relationships are
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Grab Onto the Current

Seabed is a piece of work probably best listened to in some sort of isolation tank somewhere with a built-in subwoofer sound system. It is
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Snowblink “Inner Mini-Mississippi”

[youtube]http://youtu.be/FOTDVK0sUZk[/youtube] Snowblink’s new video for “Inner Mini-Mississippi” is something a little different from all the usual big budget music video productions we see these days,
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Toro Y Moi “Never Matter”

[youtube]http://youtu.be/xV48pF4r5m8[/youtube] Toro y Moi has a way of blending together a myriad of different styles, which is apparent not only in his music but in
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Generationals “Put a Light On”

[youtube]http://youtu.be/H2GMQShkJYM[/youtube] “Put a Light On” was the first song I’d heard from The Generationals and it made me immediately check their tour listings for a
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Performing In a Food Court

Since his sophomore album Total Loss was released last September, Tom Krell has solidified his spot as one of music’s emerging artists to watch. Krell,
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A Familiar Comfort

Continuing 2013’s apparent theme: “Remind me again, Doc Emmet Brown – what year is it?” Depeche Mode have once again managed to narrowly avoid break-ups,
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Dazed and Confident

Wakin on a Pretty Daze… “Wakin on a Pretty Day”… I don’t blame Kurt Vile for not being able to pick just one of these
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The Future You Anticipated Has Been Cancelled

It’s sound check. All four members of the group are on stage, promptly at the scheduled time, prepping for the sold out gig. Lead vocalist/bass