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  SPIN's 25 Best Summer 2012 Tours

  June 7, 2012 –  …
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  Who Charted? Adam Lambert Breaks Records, Beach House Storm Top 10

  May 23, 2012 – First! Adam Lambert's Trespassing tops this week's Billboard 200 albums chart with just a 77,000-copy debut, making the album not only the first No. 1 for Lambert (his major-label debut For Your Entertainment only got to No. 3, beat by Susan Boyle and Andrea Bocelli), but also the first solo album by an openly gay artist to top the ranking. It's also the lowest-selling No. …
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  Beach House Are Well Aware a Car Ad Ripped Them Off

  May 18, 2012 – Beach House's fourth LP Bloom has been earning rave reviews, but their celebratory week has been interrupted by a fairly significant copyright snafu — namely, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's beloved "Take Care" has been musically paraphrased in a new British commercial for Volkswagen. …
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  Beach House, 'Bloom' (Sub Pop)

  May 9, 2012 – The most important instrument on Beach House's fourth album is the drum kit. Not Alex Scally's wet, shimmering guitars or music-box synths; not Victoria Legrand's husky voice; but the drums, big and booming. That's important not just because they're drums, but because drums are a symbol of music as a primal force, the instrument most capable of imitating hips and pelvis. …
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  Teen Dreamy: In Praise of Beach House's Sublime 'Myth'

  March 7, 2012 – It's difficult to overstate how far the Baltimore-based dream-pop duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally has come. When Beach House's self-titled debut came out in fall 2006, the group was going on tour with a (still) little-known New Zealand band called Over the Atlantic. …
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  Air Unleash New Single With Beach House's Legrand

  December 6, 2011 – Last year, French duo Air, who already had lunar travel on their résumé thanks to their debut Moon Safari, were commissioned to provide a soundtrack for a new print of Georges Méliès' legendary silent film La Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip to the Moon) that was premiering at Cannes. …
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  Jackpot: The Best Shots From 2011's Treasure Island Music Festival

  October 18, 2011 –  …
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  The 10 Best Moments of All Tomorrow's Parties

  May 16, 2011 – All Tomorrow's Parties, a three-day festival held this weekend at the family-oriented Butlins Resort near Minehead on the west coast of England, couldn't have been better summarized by iconoclast noise-makers Animal Collective's curation of the lineup. The Maryland-bred experimental band -- who nabbed SPIN's 2009 album of the year with their eighth studio release Merriweather Post Pavilion -- did not disappoint. …
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  'Spider-Man' Delayed, New Beach House Song + More

  February 28, 2011 – U2's troubled Spider-Man musical could have its opening date delayed for a sixth time. Producers are considering pushing the March 15 opening to late June so they can make changes to the production, which would improve "its worldwide commercial prospects." [The New York Times] At their New York City gig on Friday, Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House performed a gorgeous untitled new song. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  February 10, 2011 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck!(Obligatory Self-Promotion: ...while you're at it, be sure to follow @SPINmagazine!) This week's winners: LCD Soundsystem@lcdsoundsystem Why You Should Follow: Last weekend, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy announced via the group's webs …
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