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PARACHUTE
Dressed comfortably in fitted jeans and boots (white kicks for the drummer), Parachute has an appeal that goes beyond their boyish charm. Talented musicians since they were children, the Charlottesville, VA, natives carry a swagger that's all their own.
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ILLINOIS
Being impatient won’t get you anywhere with Illinois, the (ironically) Pennsylvania-based band that decided to release its third “album” as a set of set of six video-accompanied EPs over six months.
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DNTEL
Jimmy Tamborello, electronic music’s crossover darling, has remastered and reissued his first Dntel recordings, packaging them with unreleased tracks from 1998-2003, the period that he made his breakthrough with Life Is Full of Possibilities.
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THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART
Their self-titled record had me at the opening feedback of “Contender” – a racket of distorted guitars, fuzzy bass and uncomplicated rock drumming blend with New Wave keyboard textures, lovingly self-conscious singing and...
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SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT
Canada has always been known for its excellence in hockey, bacon and maple syrup production. Now it can add dance music to its list of fetes, thanks to the Shout Out Out Out Out's sophomore album, Reintegration Time.
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RAZORLIGHT
The Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York was buzzing with the anticipation for London-based Razorlight to walk onto the stage.
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LILY ALLEN
Blend raw lyrical honesty and happy-go-lucky melodies, and you’ve got Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You.
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FEVER RAY
Kudos should be rationed to all who create goth music without invoking images of Hot Topic.
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WHITE LIES
The kids are going to eat this up: New Wave rhythms, brooding atmospherics, histrionic songwriting and even Ian Curtis-like vocals (just what they need to really cultivate their angst, especially with the world in the shitter).
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BEEP BEEP
After the 2004 release of Beep Beep’s debut album Business Casual (Saddle Creek), the music media often compared this Omaha quartet’s aggressive guitar-driven dance punk sound to art rockers XTC and Kate Bush, as well as...
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Yep, it’s another year-end list, but this time around you’re getting the Top
100 Tracks of 2008 brought to you by two good friends, metro.pop music
editor Andrew Steinthal and freelance music and culture writer Nadine
Cheung.
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K'NAAN
K’Naan grew up in Somalia, in a neighborhood named “The River of Blood.” Violence pervaded his life, but he found solace in hip-hop, eventually learning to speak English by aping the Paid In Full raps of Rakim.
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CD PICKS
Check out December 2008's latest and greatest CD picks.
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Thurs September 4, 2008
Baum and Peferdgarten's Fall '08 runway show.
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