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• Yeasayer, 'Odd Blood' (Secretly Canadian)

  January 8, 2010 – And from a cocoon of hazy psych-folk comes...a masterful mash-up of '80s synth pop and tribal-beat tickles? Brooklyn's Yeasayer are going to need more hyphens. …
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  Best of Fun Fun Fun Fest

  November 9, 2009 – This weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin was a tale of two days: Saturday's Sun Sun Sun Fest, with its 80-degree temperatures, and Sunday's Wet Wet Wet Fest, with sporadically heavy downpours challenging the fortitude of festivalgoers. …
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  FREE DOWNLOAD: Yeasayer's Rad New Single

  October 30, 2009 – On November 3, Brooklyn experimental rockers Yeasayer will officially release "Ambling Alp," the first single off their forthcoming sophomore record Odd Blood (due in Feb.) -- but you can snatch it up for free today! …
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  Bat for Lashes Explains New Record

  January 12, 2009 – Natasha Khan, the head-band sporting Brit songstress behind mystical indie rock outfit Bat for Lashes, has revealed details for the follow-up to her SPIN-praised debut, 2007's Fur and Gold. Set for U.S. …
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  Yeasayer Announce Fall Tour

  August 12, 2008 – Who?: Brooklyn's freaky, electronically-treated Yeasayer, punctuated by the eerie vocals of frontman Chris Keating. The quartet released their heady debut, All Hour Cymbals, in October of 2007 to widespread acclaim; recently, the band wrapped up a stint supporting Beck on the European leg of his Modern Guilt outing. What? A 21-date tour stretching from October to early December spreading across the U.S. and parts of Canada. …
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  Join SPIN.com at Lollapalooza '08!

  July 30, 2008 – SPIN.com is packing up its festival bags once again this weekend for one of summer's biggest weekends: Lollapalooza, in Chicago's gorgeous Grant Park. With headline sets from the likes of Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Wilco, and Kanye West, Lolla lacks little in star power, and we're unleashing our hounds accordingly. …
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  Behind the Scenes at Download 2008 Los Angeles: Yeasayer

  July 23, 2008 – This past Sunday, July 20, throngs of music-hungry fans converged on Los Angeles' Gibson Ampitheatre for Download 2008 to have their craving satiated by sets from Tapes N' Tapes, Datarock, Ghostland Observatory, Gang of Four, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, among others. …
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  Gang of Four Cap Off Splendid Saturday at Download 2008

  July 21, 2008 – For about 10 hours last Saturday (July 19), more than 20 bands and a handful of stand-up comics performed for several thousand Bay Area music fans at Download 2008's San Francisco stopover. The result was a telling mash-up of what music fans are listening to as 2008 hits its mid-point. …
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  Download 2008: In Pictures

  July 21, 2008 – To whet your appetite for our extended coverage of this past weekend's (July 19-20) Download 2008, which we will be posting throughout the day, SPIN.com has put together this gallery of exclusive behind-the-scenes images of Datarock, M83, Yeasayer, and several other acts that supported headliners the Jesus and Mary Chain and Gang of Four. …
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  Jesus and Mary Chain, Gang of Four, Yeasayer and More Hit Download 2008 This Weekend

  July 17, 2008 – Tech fiends and music nerds unite, as the U.K.-based Download 2008 event arrives stateside for the fourth year in a row, boasting the best of the old and new, led by performances from reunited legends like shoegaze trailblazers the Jesus and Mary Chain and dance-punk godfathers Gang of Four. Also along for the ride are inventive newcomers like Cut Copy and the Whigs -- not to mention a gearhead's heaven of gadgets galore. …
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