Best Photos from SXSW: Day 2
March 18, 2011 …
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March 18, 2011 …
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January 21, 2011 At SPIN's recent celebration of the Year in Music, a fortunate crowd at intimate NYC club Don Hill's was treated to a one-of-a-kind stripped down performance by Artist of the Year honoree Florence + the Machine, plus a stellar opening set from Florida indie rockers Surfer Blood. …
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January 5, 2011
Courtney Love is embroiled in a defamation lawsuit after posting insulting comments about designer Dawn Simorangkir on her Twitter, raising questions about whether celebrities should be held liable for defamatory posts made on social media platforms. Love is headed to a Los Angeles court on January 18; it's the first high-profile lawsuit revolving around a celebrity posting unflattering comments on sites like Twitter. …
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August 30, 2010 The first wave of artists for the annual music, schmoozing, and booze marathon that is New York City's CMJ Festival have been unveiled, and the lineup is already worth the five sleepless nights and hungover mornings: Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah, Greg Dulli, Surfer Blood, Dean & Britta, Bayside, the Blow, Senses Fail, Langhorne Slim, Two Door Cinema Club, School of Seven Bells, and hundreds of others will all rock Manhattan Octob …
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February 23, 2010 Scholarship money usually goes toward, you know, school, but John Paul "JP" Pitts, guitarist and singer for Florida's Surfer Blood, had other ideas. "I got some cash for college from the state government because I had good grades," says the unrepentant 23-year-old. "But I ended up using a bunch of it to buy microphones -- good ones." He laughs. "I eventually quit school. …
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January 28, 2010 Floridian rockers Surfer Blood are riding a tidal wave of buzz.
The quintet -- currently on a 50-date U.S. tour -- wowed at CMJ and scored high marks from SPIN with their debut album Astro Coast. …
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December 11, 2009 "Take it easy on me," frontman John Paul Pitts sings on two different songs from these South Florida blog favorites' wonderfully fuzzy debut. But Astro Coast can stand up to online scrutiny -- it's girls that keep Surfer Blood's reverbed indie rock jumping out of its skin. Not that you need notice the angst for all the crunchy riffs, sunny harmonies, inscrutable humor, occasional strings, and Afropop touches. …
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Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
Lucero, Texas & Tennessee
Purson, The Circle and the Blue Door
Moon King, Obsession II
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