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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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  Best & Worst of All Points West: Day 2

  August 2, 2009 – BEST ADVICE FOR FOLKS GOING TO LOLLAPALOOZAWatch Tool. It doesn't matter what you think about their bombastic hard rock, or their oft-meatheaded fans, or Maynard James Keenan's anti-frontman tactics, or their strange, semi-Masonic iconography, or their disturbing music videos. …
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  Best & Worst of All Points West: Day 1

  August 1, 2009 – MOST HEAVILY QUESTIONED GENRE: HIP HOPWith the Beastie Boys originally set to headline (before cancelling due to Adam Yauch's cancer-surgery announcement) and Jay-Z stepping in Friday as their replacement, the first afternoon and evening of All Points West 2009 took on a vaguely beats-and-rhymes orientation -- from the eagerly flailing hipster rap of the Knux to the reformed Pharcyde's good-natured '90s-jukebox to the lyrically elaborat …
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  All Points West '08 Recap: Saturday

  August 11, 2008 – Ladies of the World Unite! Playing in her native New Jersey, Nicole Atkins emerged from the shadows as a new kind of American sweetheart, blending elements of warm country women of the past with '50s Supremes shoo-bops and pop melodies for a contemporary indie crowd. Atkins was a warm and Southern-tinged brand of stateside sass in comparison to Emily Haines, the lame jumper-clad Canadian sparkplug of Metric. …
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  All Points West '08 Recap: Friday

  August 10, 2008 – The New Pornographers and Grizzly Bear: Eating Indie Rock for Dinner: Grizzly Bear and the New Pornographers, two bands comfortably considered indie rock staples in their own right, played opposite each other, but the major difference between the two? Age. …
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