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  Los Campesinos! Bid Adieu to Departed Member With First-Ever Live Album

  April 24, 2013 – Last December, Los Campesinos! said farewell to now-former bandmember Ellen Campesinos! by playing a sold-out show in front of 800 fans at London's Islington Assembly Hall. That gig also served a couple of other purposes: It marked the return of Aleks Campesinos!, who took a three-year hiatus from the U.K. …
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• Los Campesinos!, 'Hello Sadness' (Arts & Crafts)

  November 15, 2011 – Los Campesinos! can't stop adorning their odes to existential grief with snappy handclaps, but the Welsh septet are still showing signs of growth on this third album. Keyboards, horns, and strings crescendo harder than ever on the title track, and the interlocking backing vocals of Ellen and (the now-?departed) Harriet Campesinos! …
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  Breaking Out: Los Campesinos!

  April 8, 2010 – On his first day at the University of Cardiff, in 2005, Gareth Campesinos met someone who seemed weirdly familiar. "I went into the room of a stranger living in my dorm," says the Los Campesinos! singer-lyricist, "and I see this guy unrolling a Sonic Youth poster. Then I realized I was wearing a Sonic Youth T-shirt. …
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  New Albums from Charlotte Gainsbourg & 7 More!

  January 26, 2010 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRMBeck helps Parisian pop scion make Dad proud.Read Review >> Los Campesinos!, Romance Is BoringBrits downplay the twee, up the clever quotient. Read Review >> Beach House, Teen DreamBoy-girl duo find songs to pin their moods on. …
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• Los Campesinos!, 'Romance Is Boring' (Arts & Crafts)

  December 23, 2009 – It's fun, if slightly jarring, to hear this infectiously hyperactive indie crew stretch out a little. Romance, their third album in 24 months, is more slickly assured -- and far less twee -- than its predecessors. At one end, the cacophonous "Plan A" gets blatantly cranky, and at the other, "Who Fell Asleep In" might be loosely called a ballad. …
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  Pearl Jam Tour, Night 4: Outside Lands

  August 29, 2009 – THE BEST: BEST DISPLAY OF FAN LOVE: PEARL JAMLet's put it this way: Nobody's walking around San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, the site of the Outside Lands fest, wearing a Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny t-shirt. …
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  Los Campesinos! Begin Tour in New York City

  August 5, 2009 – At more than a few points during Los Campesinos!' tour-opening performance at New York City's Webster Hall on Tuesday night, it seemed as though everyone's lives were in serious, immediate danger. …
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  New Tours: Cut Copy, Los Campesinos!

  November 11, 2008 – After spending much of 2008 touring with Black Kids and the Presets, Aussie dance-rock mavens Cut Copy are set to hit the road for a month-long North American tour in 2009 before returning to the studio to work on the follow-up to In Ghost Colours. The outing begins March 6 in Austin, TX, and hits major U.S. cities before coming to an end March 27 in Orlando, FL. …
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  New Albums from Los Campesinos!, T-Pain, Love Is All, and More

  November 11, 2008 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Los Campesinos!, We Are Beautiful, We Are DoomedRelentlessly high-strung indie poppers purge heartbreak. READ REVIEW T-Pain, Thr33 RingzChildren of all ages, step right up to the Auto-Tune extravaganza! READ REVIEW Love Is All, A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At NightPop-rock Swedes might like us better if we slept together. …
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  New Los Campesinos! Album Due November 11

  August 7, 2008 – Only seven months after dropping their debut full-length, Hold On Now, Youngster..., scrappy indie rockers Los Campesinos! have revealed plans to release a follow-up dubbed We Are Beautiful, We AreDoomed, out Nov. 11 via Arts & Crafts. And if their debut is an indication, the septet's second entry of 2008 is sure to be packed with more post-modern pop songs, and according to the band, is far from an attempt to cash in. …
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