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August 10, 2011 – Portland, OR, folkies Blitzen Trapper have released the second song from their upcoming album, American Goldwing (out Sept. 13). Hear "Love the Way You Walk Away" below.
Set to a country-folk gallop with slide guitar and banjo, frontman Eric Earley tells the tale of a down and out guy who sleeps in a beat-up sedan down by the river and drunkenly asks the stars why he's losing his girl. …
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August 9, 2011 – To celebrate what would have been Buddy Holly's 75th birthday next month, Patrick Stump, Zooey Deschanel, Cobra Starship, Jackson Browne, Brian Wilson, Stevie Nicks, Ringo Starr, and others have contributed covers of the rock pioneer's songs to the tribute LP Listen to Me: Buddy Holly (out Sept. …
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August 9, 2011 – With their new single "The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala," the Arctic Monkeys included a B-side titled "Little Illusion Machine (Wirral Riddler)." But it's not a hard-and-fast Monkeys tune: Alex Turner and Co. have dropped the cut under their alias The Death Ramps, a pseudonym they've used since 2007. …
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August 9, 2011 – From August 12-14, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park welcomes the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, the fast-growing event that delivers a stellar lineup -- and, in typical NoCal fashion, a collection of delicious food and wine vendors. …
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August 8, 2011 – Brit rockers the Kooks will support their next album, Junk of the Heart (out September 13), with a 17-date U.S. tour beginning November 15 in Philadelphia. …
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August 8, 2011 – Bjork's ambitious iPad album Biophilia arrives September 27, but the Icelandic singer has already been releasing tunes, along with a series of apps. The latest is "Virus," which you can hear below.
Compared to the previously leaked "Crystalline" and "Cosmogony," this is the most intimate song yet. …
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August 8, 2011 – John Martyn was a pioneering British singer-guitarist who released 20 albums and worked with everyone from Eric Clapton to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour before passing away in 2009 from pneumonia. …
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August 5, 2011 – Jens Lekman broke out four years ago with his swoon-worthy debut album Night Falls Over Kotedala. He'll return on September 19 with a five-track EP titled An Argument With Myself and the Swedish singer-songwriter has shared the lead title track. Grab it over at his official site or hear it here.
Lekman doesn't mess much with the quirky pop sound of his debut. …
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August 5, 2011 – John Arthur Webb, the 32-year-old singer-guitarist for one of SPIN's favorite new bands, London alt-rockers Male Bonding, is feeling nostalgic.
"Musically the '90s made the biggest impact on me," he says."When I was a kid I mopped floors at an all boys school, and I could buy one CD every two weeks. Nirvana, Blur, Sepultura.... …
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August 4, 2011 – Attention Best Coast fans: Singer-guitarist Bethany Cosentino loves you. …
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