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                <title>Review: Nate Ruess Only Gets Much Worse on &#8216;Grand Romantic&#8217;</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[<span>4</span>SPIN Rating: <span class="album-rating">4 of 10</span>Release Date: <span class="album-release">June 16, 2015</span>Label: <span class="album-label">Fueled by Ramen</span>If showbiz kids give a f<span class="st">—</span>k about anything else, it’s their performances, and this nephew of a Broadway hoofer is a thick ham on rye with gorgonzola. As the lead singer of fun., <a href="https://www.spin.com/tag/nate-ruess/">Nate Ruess</a> opened his mouth and out came fully-formed Expressionist librettos&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Nate Ruess Is the Happiest He&#8217;s Ever Been on Solo LP</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2015 18:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[The first sound on Nate Ruess' debut solo LP, <em>Grand Romantic</em>, is the sound of raspy, maniacal laughter: the kind of deliberately articulated cackle that makes it clear you're not in on the joke. It's a bit surprising coming from a singer with as notoriously wide and ready a smile as Ruess — and one who wrote&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Bleachers and Grimes Combine for Dark, Pained &#8216;Take Me Away&#8217;</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 22:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Genuine fun. guy <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/10/fun-jack-antonoff-gay-rights-election-2012/">Jack Antonoff</a>&#160;releases his debut solo album as <a href="https://www.spin.com/tag/bleachers/">Bleachers</a> on Tuesday (June 15) and we've heard a few treats there-from thus far. <em><a href="https://www.spin.com/2014/05/fun-jack-antonoff-bleachers-new-album-strange-desire-craigslist/" target="_blank">Strange Desires</a></em>, an album whose existence we officially learned about on Craigslist, now delivers a Grimes-assisted cut that wouldn't sound out of place on recent albums by Kanye West or Blood&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Beck&#8217;s &#8216;Song Reader&#8217; Album Will Star Jack White, Jack Black, and Many More</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[While <a href="https://www.spin.com/2014/07/beck-talks-loser-spin-cover-stories/">celebrating his 44th birthday</a>, Beck decided to give his fans a gift&#160;— the long-awaited studio version of <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/08/beck-releasing-new-album-sheet-music/">his&#160;<em>Song Reader</em> album</a>, which he previously released only as sheet music. While plenty of musicians, including <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/01/hear-beck-song-reader-portland-cello-project-sheet-music/">the Portland Cello Project</a>, have put out their interpretations of the tracks, this LP will feature a star-studded crew that includes&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Fun.&#8217;s Jack Antonoff Announces &#8216;Strange Desire&#8217; on Craigslist</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 22:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[There's numerous subsections of Craigslist where you might find someone advertising "strange desire," but the musicians section tends to be pretty tame. If you found yourself looking through New York or <a href="http://newjersey.craigslist.org/muc/" target="_blank">New Jersey's Craiglist music ads</a> today you might have found an ad that was ostensibly seeking just that, but if your curiosity got the&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>About That Time Bleachers&#8217; Jack Antonoff Was Punched By a Clown</title>
                <link>https://www.spin.com/2014/04/bleachers-jack-antonoff-fun-hotline-lena-dunham-video/</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martins]]></dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Fun. member and Bleachers boss Jack Antonoff was once punched in the face by a clown, as a child. Dial&#160;<a href="http://www.bleachershotline.com/" target="_blank">888-920-1991</a> and you can he'll tell you the story. The new hotline is a thematic follow-up to the <a href="https://www.spin.com/2014/03/bleachers-i-wanna-get-better-lena-dunham-video/">"I Wanna Get Better" video</a>&#160;— directed for Bleachers by Antonoff's girlfriend, the multi-talented <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Dunham" target="_blank">Lena Dunham</a> — in which&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Lena Dunham Makes Hilarious Music Video for Boyfriend</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[Fun. guy <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/10/fun-jack-antonoff-gay-rights-election-2012/">Jack Antonoff</a> will release his first solo album this spring under the name <a href="http://www.bleachersmusic.com/" target="_blank">Bleachers</a>, and his opening salvo is exactly the sort of ecstatic, bursting, guiltless pop you'd expect. We first heard <a href="https://www.spin.com/2014/02/bleachers-jack-antonoff-i-wanna-get-better-fun-stream/">"I Wanna Get Better"</a> over a month ago, and now the former Steel Train frontman has let loose the video for&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Fun.&#8217;s Jack Antonoff Launches Bleachers With Ecstatic &#8216;I Wanna Get Better&#8217;</title>
                <link>https://www.spin.com/2014/02/bleachers-jack-antonoff-i-wanna-get-better-fun-stream/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martins]]></dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Fun. co-founder <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/10/fun-jack-antonoff-gay-rights-election-2012/">Jack Antonoff</a> has officially announced a solo project dubbed&#160;<a href="http://www.bleachersmusic.com/" target="_blank">Bleachers</a>. The spring will bring a proper album co-produced by the man himself along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hill_(record_producer)" target="_blank">John Hill</a> (M.I.A., Phantogram, Wavves) and Vince Clarke (member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure), but for now you can hear "I Wanna Get Better," the ecstatic first taste of&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Here&#8217;s a Free fun. Song Called &#8216;What the F—k&#8217;</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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                <description><![CDATA[After the pop geniuses in fun. dropped their <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/02/grammys-2013-who-should-win-big-categories-taylor-swift-frank-ocean/">Grammy</a>-nabbing <a href="https://www.spin.com/2012/03/fun-some-nights-fueled-ramen/"><em>Some Nights</em></a> the sudden stars left their personal lives behind and disappeared into the guts of America, playing show after show on the aptly named Most Nights tour. Singer Nate Ruess also kept busy, co-writing and appearing on songs by <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/02/pink-fun-nate-ruess-just-give-me-a-reason-video/">Pink</a> and <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/10/eminem-fun-nate-ruess-skylar-grey-headlights-asshole-mmlp2-stream/">Eminem</a>, but now he's&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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                <title>Eminem&#8217;s &#8216;MMLP2&#8242; Will Star Rihanna, Kendrick Lamar, fun.&#8217;s Nate Ruess</title>
                <link>https://www.spin.com/2013/10/eminem-marshall-mathers-lp-2-mmlp2-track-list-rihanna-kendrick/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
                <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Martins]]></dc:creator>
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                <description><![CDATA[Eminem has released the track list for his highly anticipated new album&#160;<em>Marshall Mathers LP 2</em>, due out November 5. So far we've received videos for the <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/10/eminem-survival-video-mmlp2-marshall-mathers/">hard-rhyming "Survival"</a>&#160;and <a href="https://www.spin.com/2013/09/eminem-berzerk-video/">noise-rap platter "Berzerk"</a>&#160;— both showcases for Em's solo strength. Now the Detroit-reared MC icon reveals his collaborators along with the back cover of the album and the&#8230; ]]></description>
                

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