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5 Best New Artists for October ’13

From a pair of North Carolina synth-folk innovators to an eccentric, perm-touting Bay Area rapper to a trio of Missouri brothers out to prove that punk’s not dead, here are five artists to know this month. PHILIP SHERBURNE AND BRANDON SODERBERG

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