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Spoon Headline Holiday Radio Show

December 4, 2009 – Six weeks before the release of their seventh record Transference, Spoon opened a brief 2009 U.S. tour at the Midland Theater Thursday night in Kansas City. …
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WATCH: Hockey Rock SPIN's Rooftop!

November 6, 2009 – Portland, OR, foursome Hockey recently dropped by SPIN's Manhattan offices for a rooftop set of tunes from their debut album, Mind Chaos. The show -- the latest edition in the SPINHouse Live series, sponsored by Newcastle Brown Ale and VTech -- saw the band rip through the record's highly danceable New Wave-tinged tracks, including "Work," "Put the Game Down," and "Too Fake." Check out the videos below. And read our review of the show …
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Hockey Play SPIN Rooftop CMJ Party

October 23, 2009 – In the latest edition of our SPINhouse Live series Thursday night, presented by Newcastle Brown Ale and VTech, up-and-coming Portland, Oregon, dance-rock band Hockey entertained an intimate crowd of 200 on the rooftop of SPIN's downtown Manhattan office as part of this week's CMJ Music Festival. Click here to watch the videos >> "I want to write a truthful song over an '80's groove," singer Benjamin Grubin declared launching "So …
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Hot New Band: Hockey

September 8, 2009 – Last summer, Hockey's vegetable-oil-powered van broke down in Denver. Ninedays and three unsuccessful repair attempts later, they had to cancel the rest of their tour -- that's when things started looking up. "We were stuck," recalls bassist Jeremy "Jerm" Reynolds, hiding in a tent with his bandmates during a storm at Bonnaroo. "And everything started to happen for us. Capitol called and offered us crazy shit. …
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Hot New Band: Hockey's Star-Studded Video

August 19, 2009 – Their retro dance anthems are deft exercises in geek chic, so it makes perfect sense for Portland-based buzz Hockey to recruit two budding stars of nerd cinema for their brand new music video. Paper Heart actors Charlyne Yi and Paul Rust meet on the dancefloor in the band's clip for "Song Away," the second release from their forthcoming album, Mind Chaos (out Oct. 6). …
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Best & Worst of Lollapalooza: Day 1

August 8, 2009 – THE BEST: BEST INACCURATE WEATHER REPORT: ZAP MAMA"THE SUN IS SHINING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" sang Zaire-born, Belgium-raised frontwoman Marie Dauine on "Show Me the Way," a fusion of jazz, funk, and Brazilian tropicalia. But she was wrong: actually, it was raining... hard. …
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Bonnaroo Day 1: The Best & the Worst

June 12, 2009 – THE BEST Best Caffeine Substitute at Midnight: Passion PitGetting the party started with skittering breakbeats and then keeping it going with a throbbing disco pulse and frothy washes of synths, Passion Pit gave the rain-soaked crowd in This Tent just the midnight pick-me-up it needed. With three banks of keys plus drums and bass, the Massachusetts quintet served up one bracing draught of heavenly electro-pop after another. …
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