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  'Songs for Slim' Auction Adds John Doe, Vanessa Carlton, and Deer Tick Contributions

  June 14, 2013 – The Replacements have reunited for the forthcoming traveling Riot Fest 2013, but they won't be joined by longtime guitarist Slim Dunlap. The 61-year-old punk icon suffered a massive stroke last year from which he is still recovering, but 'Mats fans are getting another chance to contribute to his well-being. …
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  Newport Folk Festival 2012 Breakdown: MMJ, Weed Jokes, Giant Chickens

  July 30, 2012 – This weekend, the Newport Folk Festival returned to Rhode Island's Fort Adams State Park for its 53rd year. …
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  Deer Tick Lovingly Cover Harvey Danger's 'Flagpole Sitta'

  July 17, 2012 – Why bust out Harvey Danger's awesome 1998 track "Flagpole Sitta" for the A.V. Undercover? "I fucking love that song," proclaimed Deer Tick's John McCauley. "And I definitely saw Harvey Danger live." (Hey, so did we!) The shaggy New England rockers provide a charmingly loose take on the neatly buttoned power-pop tune, and McCauley throws in a genuinely ecstatic fist pump at the 3:24 mark.  …
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  Watch Everyone From ABBA to the Chili Peppers Honor the Beastie Boys This Weekend

  May 7, 2012 – You couldn't step foot in a bar, store, or baseball stadium in New York this weekend without hearing the Beastie Boys. And as members of Generation Yauch continued to reel from the news that Adam "MCA" Yauch had succumbed to cancer Friday morning, the music world stepped up its cover game, adding heartfelt renditions of the group's tracks to live sets all over the world. …
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  Listen to Deer Tick's Shaggy 'Tim' Cut 'Born at Zero'

  April 5, 2012 – By now you know that Nashville-via-Rhode Island garage rock ragamuffins Deer Tick were so bold/cheeky as to name their latest EP, Tim, a shameless tribute to the band whose influence has crept its way into their ruckus with each recording: the Replacements. …
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  Grouplove, Gary Clark Jr. Playing SPIN Sessions at Bing Bar During Sundance

  January 18, 2012 – SPIN is teaming up with Bing, the Official Search Engine of Sundance, to present SPIN Sessions at the Bing Bar throughout this year's film festival. …
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  First Spin: Hear Indie-Rock Supergroup Diamond Rugs' 'Gimme a Beer'

  January 17, 2012 – Even if you couldn't understand a word John McCauley sings on "Gimme a Beer," the song's boozy bonhomie would give you a clue as to its title. …
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  Watch New Videos From Taylor Swift, Loutallica, Deer Tick, and B.o.B

  December 5, 2011 – On November 1, Lou Reed and Metallica finally unleashed their much-discussed collaborative album, Lulu. Has it created "another planetary system" yet? Hard to say, but the critically divisive record has led to a previously revealed team-up with Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler). …
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  Watch a Pair of Exclusive Deer Tick Live Videos

  November 23, 2011 – According to John McCauley, Deer Tick have always had a greater affinity for punks than folkies. Nursing a midday vodka tonic on the patio of Jackson's, a trendy bar in Nashville's Hillsboro Village, the shaggy 25-year-old frontman and recent Tennessee transplant recalls the time in 2009 when his group almost got booted off a tour with Neko Case for spilling a drink onstage. …
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  My Favorite Things: Deer Tick's John McCauley on The Replacements and Cocaine

  November 3, 2011 – John McCauley, the 25-year-old lead songwriter of Providence, Rhode Island's Deer Tick, is behind this year's excellent Divine Providence, which finds the singer-guitarist ditching his Nirvana cover band, Deervana, to craft "the best Replacements songs in 25 years," SPIN writes in the LP's eight-out-10-review. …
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