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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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  From the Eastsport Cafe at Lollapalooza '08: Jamie Lidell

  August 3, 2008 – For years, Jamie Lidell performed live as a one man digital wrecking crew, frenzied behind a table of synths and wires, spitting out verses. Now, to best present tunes from his latest album, Jim, Lidell invited a slew of solid session musicians to join the fray, something he discussed with SPIN.com's Peter Gaston in the SPIN Studio at the Eastsport Café at Chicago's Hard Rock Hotel. …
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  Lollapalooza '08 Editors' Blog: Five Observations from Day One

  August 2, 2008 – 1. "Wow, what's with all those people onstage?" my companion asked as we stopped by the MySpace stage where a dirtbag choir was working hard (and in unison) to keep the butt-rock flame alive. …
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  Duffy: Girl From the North Country

  August 1, 2008 – The drive from Cardiff to Nefyn, a remote fishing village on north Wales' Llyn Peninsula, is only about 160 miles, but it takes me nearly seven hours. Squinting through nonstop rain, muttering at itinerant sheep, and stifling long-ingrained right-side-of-the-road steering impulses, I fret over ominous-sounding traffic signs I can't read (arwyddion rhan amser?) and take a few desperate gulps of instant petrol-station coffee. …
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  Watch Duffy Perform Live!

  July 22, 2008 – Check out footage of soulful Welsh sensation and Spin's August cover subject Duffy strutting through two tracks from her buzz-building debut, Rockferry, live at the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles, CA. As evidenced by this set, despite haven broken through by begging for "Mercy," Duffy certainly thrusts forth plenty of '60s soul sass. "I'm not going to bore you with my issues. …
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• Duffy, "Delayed Devotion"

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