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  Bright Eyes Earns Radio City Music Hall Spotlight

  March 9, 2011 – There's something about watching any band play Radio City Music Hall that inherently feels like a coronation, a moment to savor and take stock -- must be the vaulted ceilings and the faint musk of old Rockettes. …
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  Rival Schools, 'Pedals' (Photo Finish/Atlantic)

  March 8, 2011 – In the ten years since Rival Schools' underappreciated debut, United by Fate, main man Walter Schreifels has been busy starting new bands (including the magnificent Walking Concert), reuniting with his NYHC posse Gorilla Biscuits, producing others, and releasing a solo album. …
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  Wye Oak, 'Civilian' (Merge)

  March 8, 2011 – This Baltimore male-female duo's third album alternates gorgeous currents of dread, catharsis, assurance, and doubt. Singer-guitarist Jenn Wasner's voice and lyrics -- smoky, seductive, strange -- are perfectly framed by everything from chugging shoegaze ("Holy Holy") to subdued thrum ("Fish") to virtually nothing (the gutting closer "Doubt"). …
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  Ellie Goulding, 'Lights' (Cherrytree/Interscope)

  March 8, 2011 – When Ellie Goulding emerged two years ago, few would've compared the strummy singer- songwriter to currentU.K. pop wild child Jessie J. But producer Starsmith -- who's remixed Katy Perry and Lady Gaga -- nudged Goulding onto the dance floor, where she's nowJessie's good-girl counterpart, blending folky melodies with amped-up '80s-style synths and beats. On this debut full-length, already a U.K. No. …
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  DOWNLOAD: Explosions in the Sky's First Song

  March 8, 2011 – Austin's Explosions in the Sky will return April 26 with Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, their first album in four years, and now the first song from the record has emerged. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: An Horse's Melodic 'Is It Love?' Song

  March 7, 2011 – An Horse's Kate Cooper isn't one to let idle hours go to waste. "After [2009 album] Rearrange Beds came out, I had some time off in Los Angeles," says the singer-guitarist, one half of the Aussie indie-pop duo (Damon Cox handles drums). …
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  The Arctic Monkeys Roar Back With New Tune

  March 4, 2011 – England's Arctic Monkeys are currently in the studio cutting their fourth album, and while the band has not announced details about the album's release, they've unveiled a new track today titled "Brick by Brick," which you can hear below. The song builds on the muddy, psychedelic leanings of the band's 2009 LP Humbug. …
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  My Favorite Things: Patrick Stump

  March 4, 2011 – Welcome to the new weekly SPIN.com feature "My Favorite Things," where musicians we love tell us about the things they love. …
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  Cold War Kids Kick Off Tour in Portland

  March 4, 2011 – It feels like Cold War Kids have lived several lives in their relatively short career -- from overnight blog sensations, a national tour with Death Cab for Cutie, to nefariously being identified as a "Christian band," an association that can be the death knell for any modern musician not named Sufjan. …
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  WATCH: Lykke Li 'Gets Some' on Late Night TV

  March 4, 2011 – Wounded Rhymes, the sophomore album from current SPIN cover star Lykke Li, is in stores this week, and the petite Swede took her promotional tour to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Thursday night, uncorking a percussive version of her sexy single, "Get Some." Watch it below. Dressed all in black and backed by a similarly-clad band, Lykke deadpanned to the camera, her piercing gaze hitting the camera lens. …
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