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Boys Like Girls
posted: December 16, 2009
If music is a universal language, then pop-punk is global slang” snappy, direct and favored by the young. Pinboys, a rock quartet from Denmark, deliver pop-punk nuggets that require no translation. The group features both…
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Beyond the Pale
posted: December 14, 2009
Some of the best music is born in the bedroom. A good idea only requires a little space and privacy to take root and grow into something truly remarkable. Brothers Michael and Matt Reisenauer began their…
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Joyful Noises
posted: December 9, 2009
There is quirky, and then there is You Say France & I Whistle, a band from Stockholm who play toys as instruments, sing inexhaustibly of cats and consult an imaginary squirrel band member. Though there…
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Waking the Dead
posted: December 7, 2009
Not all ghosts like to rattle their chains and spook their human counterparts. Some just want to play, leading their subjects on wild goose chases and hide-and-seek games in the dark. Columbus, Ohio’s Phantods conjure…
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Pity Party
posted: December 2, 2009
Dancing to a somber song can be a strange sensation, but one that’s oddly cathartic. San Francisco’s Geographer offers unlikely material for hipster dance parties in the form of triumphant indie rock drenched in reverb,…
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Pluck o' the Irish
posted: November 30, 2009
Plenty of Irish folk bands have found eager listeners on American soil over the years, beginning with the Chieftains and Clancy Brothers in the 60s and 70s. If Irish folk popularity had waned a bit…
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