Last night The Living Blue put on an energetic performance filled with gems from their new disc, Fire, Blood, Water (review), at the Turf Club. Unfortunately the crowd dwindled to around 25 “sitters” by the time they took the stage around midnight.
Regardless, the group rocked out on songs including “State of Affairs” and “Tell […]

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The Trimmed Hedges
Abandoned Cities EP
Available: April 18
Somewhere between folk and jazz and melodic and progressive rock genres already present in the Twin Cities sits the Trimmed Hedges. And this month they’ve lowered their leafy branches so that each of us may take a turn with the shears to take a piece of them home.
Abandoned […]

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Various Artists
Invaders
Label: Kemado
In stores: April 25, 2006
It’s genre revival time, and today’s genres of choice are hard rock and heavy metal. The question is if the underground metal genre needs reviving.
Over the years, Kemado Records in NYC has built its roster with high-quality, semi-marketable groups filled with potential and who are garnering increased recognition […]

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Fightstar
They Liked You Better When You Were Dead
Label: Deep Elm
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Free MP3 Download “Lost Like Tears In Rain” (MP3, 192kbps)

Tom Thumb And The Latter Day Saints
Kindermusik EP
Label: Three Ring RecordsBuy at iTunes Music Store
Free MP3 Download “Preach” (MP3, 192kbps)

My Only Hope
This Means War
Label: Go for Broke
Buy at iTunes Music Store
Free MP3 […]

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The Jade Shader
Curse of the Tuatara
Label: Sonic Boom Recording
From the land of Headhunter Records in San Diego come The Jade Shader - a group made from current and ex-members of bands including No Knife, Boilermaker and even Pinback — Jade Shader founder/leader Chris Prescott is a touring member of Pinback.
Their post-hardcore indie EP, Curse […]

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Pantown
Self-titled
Pantown in its current form has been kicking around the cities since 2003 following a harried period of ups and downs, including a slot on a Christian arena tour with Sonic Flood. Currently the fivesome are touring regionally, promoting their self-titled EP which came out earlier this year
I caught them at the Red Sea on […]

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Nice Peter
Songs for Moms
Try not to pee. It’s Weezer meets Tenacious D; it’s Weird Al meets Adam Sandler; but it’s funnier than all of that, because it’s Pete Shukoff (aka Nice Peter) — and he’s a real life dude from Chicago writing instant classics like “Make Up Sex” on his album, Songs for Moms. […]

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Radio Indie Pop is streaming Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ entire second album, Show Your Bones, which was just released last week.
It it a massive leap forward or a disappointing follow-up from Fever to Tell from the New York-based group and Karen O? You tell me.
Listen to the entire disc here (free registration required).

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Be Your Own Pet have released an advance MP3 track from their forthcoming EP Summer Sensation (Ecstatic Peace/Universal) out 4/18. The EP will be followed by the band’s debut full-length on 6/6.
You can download the track “Fire Department” here (MP3).
Summer Sensation tracklisting:
1. Bicycle, Bicyle
2. Girls On TV
3. Fire Department
4. Take That Walk
5. Hillmont Avenue
On […]

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Tortoise & Bonnie Prince Billy
The Brave and the Bold
Label: Overcoat Recordings
Although he’d performed the song live many times, when Will Oldham was asked to make a studio recording of Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road,” his only requirement was to have Tortoise be his backing band. The result was a synthtastic math rock version of the classic, […]

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