A Static Lullaby

Bad Religion

Blacklist Royals

Downtown Brown

Escape the Fate

It Dies Today

Killswitch Engage 

K-OS

Revolution Mother 

 The Unseen

The Vincent Black Shadow 

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With glimpses of my favorite corn-fed jazz sound (Kevin “BF” Burt & the Instigators), motown soul (Marvin Gaye) and melodic metal blends (Sevendust, P.O.D.), watching Minneapolis power-trio Casual Confusion live is the closest you will ever get to reliving the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
We’ve been rocking out to the group’s self-titled debut all week — an […]

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Seth Lakeman
Introducing…Vol. 1 and 2 (EPs)
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Label: Manhattan Records
Following his $600 DIY, Mercury Prize-nominated album U.K. folk singer-songwriter Seth Lakeman is preparing his next album and official U.S. debut, Poor Man’s Heaven, this fall on Manhattan Records.
Until then, Lakeman is satiating our undying thirst for freeform folk with the release of two […]

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UNKLE
War Stories
Label: Surrender All
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Although it’s been four years since Never, Never, Land graced our tinny JBL desktop speakers, U.K. trip-hop outfit UNKLE have been listening and waiting to unfurl their latest blitzkrieg on their unsuspecting fan base.
War Stories is a marked departure from the UNKLE of old, and that’s a good […]

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Neo-post-punk, U.K. brood rockers Editors are basking in the glow of their highly anticipated Back Room follow-up, An End Has a Start (Epic/Fader), which hit U.S. shores last week.
Editors : “Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors” (Jools Holland stream; radio edit stream)
We had the honor of chatting with Editors’ bassist Russell Leetch this afternoon to chat […]

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Tegan & Sara
The Con
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Canadian twin songstresses Tegan and Sara Quin release their their fifth studio album this week, The Con.
We aren’t familiar with 2004’s hit album, So Jealous, or any of their previous work. We do know the duo teamed up with Christopher Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) […]

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Silverchair
Young Modern
Release Date: July 24, 2007
Label: Eleven Music Company
The opening salvo of Silverchair’s newest album in five years, Young Modern, is misleading. The opening grungey power chords of “Young Modern Station” quickly give way to falsetto vocals, mature transitions and strings (stringts!) we just didn’t expect from the prepubescent band behind 1995’s smash Frogstomp.
After thorough […]

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Amy Van Patten’s CoreSource Productions at Studio 8 has released their first annual compilation, CoreSource Productions Compilation Vol. 1.
This year’s line-up features six different artists playing mainly acoustic guitar and singing with Van Patten adding guitar, bass, piano and drums to the mix: Jess Nelson, Oscar Yanez, Ben Petro, River Gordon, Thea Ennen and Henry […]

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New York’s Savu Sea have readied their debut LP, The River Light, which boasts a repertoire of highs and lows graced with a subdued Eastern psychedelic air underscored by singer Hiro Williams’ deep, sonorous voice.
We had the opportunity to sit down with Williams to chat about the band, their controversial track “Baghdad Love Hotel” and […]

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Great Northern, The Comas, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, The Donkeys
July 17, 2007
First Avenue’s 7th St. Entry, Minneapolis, MN

Last night was indeed a unique night for music in Minneapolis, as two national tours crossed in the night like nomadic gypsys on the tiny stage of The Entry.
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and The Donkeys’ tour […]

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