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08.17.2010

MARVELOUS DARLINGS are a band I’LL easily STAND listening to more jams BY, whether HER face is on the cover or not.

days! weeks! years! months!

♫ Marvelous Darlings – I’ll Stand By Her

Start your week off right with this sharp bit of blistering rock n roll! Toronto’s Marvelous Darlings is the side project of Fucked Up’s guitarist Ben Cook but thankfully it’s a whole lot poppier and fun then his other…

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08.02.2010

THE MELIGROVE BAND don’t use HAL on their rock FLIGHT

found you in the dark with the fierceness of a fire

♫ The Meligrove Band – Halflight

Right off the bat “Halflight” sounds the way that cover art looks: big, bright, kinda familiar, and rapidly hurtling through space. Luckily for us that feeling pounds its way through 3 and a half minutes of adrenaline-fueled…

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07.27.2010

JAPANDROIDS are YOUNG, follow their HEARTS, and SPARK up jams of FIRE!

i don’t wanna worry about dying, i just wanna worry about sunshine girls

♫ Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire

Japandroids first landed in my iTunes almost exactly a year ago, about the same time the rest of the world was loving their raw two-man rock. Somehow their rough and loose jams didn’t grab…

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06.30.2010

STARS FIXED are a band WE DON’T WANT to underrate, lest YOUR BODY miss out on some jams

you’re tuned in to my frequency but that don’t mean a thing to me

♫ Stars – We Don’t Want Your Body

Stars have never done it for me but then I heard a few tracks off their latest album and I was like whoah! These are some jams! “We Don’t Want Your Body” has great…

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06.09.2010

HANNAH GEORGAS makes CHIT CHAT go BANG BANG until YOU’RE dancing and suddenly DEAD tired

you’re talking shhh about me, i’m talking shhh about you

♫ Hannah Georgas – Chit Chat

Hannah Georgas makes a lot of first impressions. “Chit Chat” (above) opens her debut album, This Is Good, and gives an excellent example of the emotion, range, and spunky energy to follow. Similarly, album standout “Bang…

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05.22.2010

GERMANY GERMANY is my HOME base on this RADIOWAVE of dance madness

one day i need you to believe that i am still so far from free

♫ Germany Germany – Home

First of all, Germany Germany’s second EP Electrolove is fucking brilliant and I hope you all paid attention when I mentioned it earlier. Seriously, that guitar soloing in “Home” is unreal! That it’s…

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04.16.2010

DANKO JONES is so FULL OF riffs that I REGRET having not heard them earlier

if you see her won’t you tell her for me it’s better this way to avoid our misery

♫ Danko Jones – Full Of Regret

Danko Jones are putting the “guitar shredding” in my “Thursday!” Wait, does that make sense? Damn, it’s hard to type while both hands are air-guitaring this hard. I’ve never…

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11.12.2009

DO? MAKE? SAY? THINK? DO.

♫ Do Make Say Think – Do

A 10 minute and 40 second song? Are you kidding me? That’s half an episode of The Simpsons! 8 viewings of this hilarious laughing baby clip! Few songs over 5 minutes can keep my interest, let alone double that and without lyrics! Well, leave it up to the…

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07.28.2009

Monogrenade ease me into Ce Soir

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Monogrenade – Ce soir

Monogrenade are one of those bands that sings in French and makes no apologies for being totally incomprehensible. Even their MySpace page is fully Frenched out, even though they are from bilingual Canada (Montreal). I can only guess that “EP maintenant disponible sur Itunes !!!” means that their EP is out on…

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06.18.2009

Handsome Furs are Talking (rocking?) Hotel Arbat Blues

do anything you want but just not here

Handsome Furs – Talking Hotel Arbat Blues

I had always heard of Handsome Furs but never really listened to their music until I saw they were coming to Warsaw a few months back. Their latest LP Face Control hooked me pretty quick and their live show…

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