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  Watch Telekinesis Revive a Record-Pressing Plant in 'Empathetic People' Video

  May 9, 2013 – "Every building has a face," Telekinesis frontman Michael Benjamin sings on "Empathetic People," a punchy standout from the Seattle fuzz-poppers' new album Dormarion, produced by Spoon's Jim Eno. In the song's freshly posted video, that building is an abandoned vinyl record-pressing factory, which Telekinesis put back to work while banging out their song. …
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  Telekinesis Reveals Which Rock Stars Are Aliens, Performs 'Dormarion' Beauties

  March 18, 2013 – "I love straight-ahead rock records," Telekinesis mainman Michael Lerner told SPIN, speaking on the phone during a recent interview, "but I also love records that that took a lot of risks." Those twin affections are in full flower on the band's third full-length album, Dormarion, due April 2 on Merge. …
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  FREE ALBUM: SPIN Tribute to Nirvana's 'Nevermind'

  July 19, 2011 – SPIN's August issue pays tribute to the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, and as part of our package we tapped some of our favorite contemporary artists to cover the influential album's 13 songs, in their original order. …
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  Breaking Out: Telekinesis

  April 11, 2011 – Twenty-four years ago, Stevie Wonder put a hand on the pregnant belly of Michael Benjamin Lerner's mother and said, "I bless this child." "My parents like to tell me that's why I play music," says Lerner, whose father spent three decades as a radio DJ (and often brought his wife backstage). But Lerner, a Seattle native who records chipper indie rock under the name Telekinesis, traces his songwriting roots to the night his dad took him  …
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  Telekinesis, '12 Desperate Straight Lines' (Merge)

  February 15, 2011 – Darker, more propulsive, and flexing weightier production than his ruddy-cheeked 2009 debut, the second full-length from Seattle's Michael Benjamin Lerner owes the extra power in its pop, perhaps antithetically, to heartbreak. …
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  Florence Teams with Drake, New Adele Song + More

  January 11, 2011 – Watch Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine team up with Drake on the rapper's song "Fireworks," from the rapper's recent show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. …
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  Telekinesis Debut New Songs, Cover Bieber Live

  December 6, 2010 – Hot Seattle power-pop outfit Telekinesis released one of SPIN's favorite under-the-radar albums of 2009 with their self-titled debut, and are poised for their big break in 2011 with 12 Desperate Lines (out Feb. 15). …
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  The 27 Winter Albums That Matter Most

  November 29, 2010 –  …
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  EXCLUSIVE: New Song from Seattle's Telekinesis

  November 10, 2010 – Seattle power pop outfit Telekinesis -- whose 2009 self-titled debut was a SPIN fave -- will return with a second album, 12 Desperate Straight Lines, February 15 via Merge. Download a brand new song, "Car Crash," below! "Car Crash" packs the same sugary punch of the band's debut, juxtaposing singer-songwriter Michael Lerner's buoyant hooks with contemplative lyrics: "Will I die alone? …
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  10 Best Albums You Might Have Missed in 2009

  December 7, 2009 – When we painstakingly compile our annual Best Albums list, there are always a few outliers, albums that we loved deeply but, for one reason or another, didn't find a spot in the top 40. It's music that we blasted from our cubicles, sought out at club shows, and dropped onto playlists for pals, that didn't necessarily permeate the popular consciousness, or score career-changing syncs in car commercials. …
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