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  Bon Iver, St. Vincent, Spoon Rock for Haiti

  January 25, 2010 – Saturday night's sold-out Haiti benefit event at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg felt more like an indie jam session among friends than a concert with a serious social agenda. Billed as "A Night of Comedy and Music to Benefit Haiti" -- a fundraiser for the Red Cross and a Port-au-Prince orphanage, arranged by concert promoter Bowery Presents and music blog Brooklyn Vegan -- the event saw Spoon's Britt Daniel, Bon Iver's Justin Ve …
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  Rockers Help Haiti All Weekend Long

  January 25, 2010 – In an effort unmatched since 2005's Hurricane Katrina, stars of the music scene turned all weekend long to raise funds for victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake, where more than 150,000 have already died. Friday night's Hope for Haiti Now telethon proved to be the most effective television fundraiser of all-time, raking in upwards of $57 million for the island nation's rebuilding and relief efforts. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  January 23, 2010 – This week, Conan closed out his tenure on The Tonight Show with musical guest Neil Young, Vampire Weekend hit No.1 on the Billboard album chart, Kate Moss got engaged to the Kills' Jamie Hince, and Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz were confirmed as this year's Coachella headliners. These stories, plus the week's top news, audio/video, and live reviews, below.top StoriesCoachella 2010: Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz to HeadlineFull lineup for April 16- …
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• Spoon, 'Transference' (Merge)

  January 20, 2010 – If Spoon had been meant to ride a comet out of the collegiate airwaves into modern-rock radio ubiquity, they'd be kickin' it with Jack White by now. …
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  WATCH: Spoon Play Conan

  January 20, 2010 – With the Jay vs. Conan vs. NBC kerfuffle reaching a fever pitch, it's a mighty fine time to be the musical guest on The Tonight Show, especially if you've got a new record out. …
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  New Albums from Spoon, Motion City & 6 More!

  January 19, 2010 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Spoon, TransferenceSeven albums in, indie-pop vets strip things down. Read Review >> Motion City Soundtrack, My Dinosaur LifeFall Out Men make a bid for the mainstream. Read Review >> Eels, End TimesHeading into another dysfunction junction. …
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  Stream Spoon's New Album!

  January 11, 2010 – Transference, the latest album from Austin, TX, rockers Spoon, doesn't drop until next Tuesday, January 19 -- but you can hear the entire album right now, courtesy of NPR. In SPIN's January/February issue, contributing writer Melissa Maerz reviews the quartet's new release, issuing it seven-out-of-10 stars. …
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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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  Spoon, Atlas Sound, Quasi Play Austin's SpoonX3 Fest

  July 13, 2009 – Every Spoon show in Austin, TX, has nostalgia attached to it. Early gigs at the now-closed Sound Exchange on the University of Texas campus, shows at Emo's in the late 1990s, and even more recent performances at dives like the Scoot Inn are markers in any Austinite's personal history. …
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  Conor Oberst, Spoon to Play Merge's 20th Anniversary Fest

  April 3, 2009 – Superchunk members Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance's North Carolina label Merge Records is celebrating 20 years of kicking out the jams with a five-day bash in their home state -- and they've invited some of their best artists to join the party, including Spoon, M. …
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