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  Stream Akron/Family's Grief-Stricken 'Until the Morning'

  February 28, 2013 – “A lot of this contemporary pop stuff, this 1930s, panning for gold, bow tie stuff like the Lumineers, it's very heart on the sleeve," says Akron/Family multi-instrumentalist Miles Seaton says. "But they're telling someone else's story. I feel like we're telling our own story now and it's less fairy tale. …
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  Hear Akron/Family Offshoot Cy Dune's Punk-Charged 'Move the Room'

  January 17, 2013 – With Akron/Family, singer-guitarist Seth Olinsky helps make what SPIN once described as "loud and proud psych-folk." For new project Cy Dune, Olinksy is louder and prouder, though certainly not "folk," except in the sense that rock'n'roll was a dominant vernacular form of expression in the 20th century. …
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• Dana Buoy, 'Summer Bodies' (Lefse)

  May 8, 2012 – Akron/Family drummer seeks inner Brian Wilson via breathy, dreamy odes to well-oiled, sunbaked sensuality. …
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  First Look: Watch Akron/Family Frolic Under the Sea in 'Cast a Net'

  October 27, 2011 – Though SPIN called the latest Akron/Family slab "loud and proud" and "under the sway of avant-noise pioneers like Acid Mothers Temple and Boredoms," the wild, bacchinalian band has been less shy about showing their sensitive sides as of late. Enter this premiere of the meditative "Cast a Net," directed by Percept Visual's Brian Ziffer. …
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• Akron/Family, 'S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT' (Dead Oceans)

  February 8, 2011 – This loud and proud psych-folk trio want some old-fashioned joy on their fifth album -- and they want it now. Obviously under the sway of avant-noise pioneers like Acid Mothers Temple and Boredoms, the indie jam enthusiasts add tribal drums and walls of fuzzy guitar to their increasingly convincing hippie harmonizing. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Akron/Family's Latest Clip

  February 8, 2011 – Akron/Family, the reliably trippy psych-folk trio, just released their fifth album, the fuzzy, tribal S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT, which earned an 8-out-of-10 review in SPIN. …
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  New Albums from Cut Copy and More

  February 8, 2011 – Here's our take on the best and worst albums available online and in record stores today: Cut Copy, ZonoscopeMen at Play: Astral Aussies prepare us for ecstatic liftoff. Read Review ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Tao of the DeadBong-shattering rockers blow conceptual load.Read Review Akron/Family, S/T II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNTGrateful Dead devotees really turning Japanoise. Read Review  …
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  Best & Worst of All Points West: Day 3

  August 3, 2009 – BEST SET OF THE DAYFor all the you-know-how-I-know-you're-gay jokes Coldplay has to endure, give them credit for embracing the joke themselves."Let's practice some singing," Chris Martin instructed the crowd during "Yellow," adding, "even if you got dragged here by your girlfriend."Coldplay aimed their set at those reluctantly-dragged individuals (ie. …
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