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Jack Rabid's Big Takeover

Big Announcement!: Springhouse reforms for new third LP From Now to OK and East Coast tour dates 2008, with Magnetic Morning and Julie Ocean! / Listen to Big Takeover on Breakthruradio.com! / Don't Forget the New Issue 62!

NEW YORK – Aug 16

Here’s all the info on my old band Springhouse’s first LP in 15 years (since we were on the Caroline label), From Now to OK, and accompanying “Big Takeover Magazine Presents” East Coast tour with Magnetic Morning and Julie Ocean! (and on one date, The Jet Age):

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The Power of Music Compels You!

by Greg Bartalos
Greg Bartalos

Love - Forever Changes (Rhino)

BROOKLYN – Jun 8

With the recent 2-CD reissue of Forever Changes the album continues to astound four decades on.

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Sound Fix

by Steve Holtje
Steve Holtje

The Heaters - The Great Lost Heaters Album (Salter)

BROOKLYN – Jul 30

Using a combination of the original session tapes, demos, and newly recorded parts, near the end of last year the band put out a version conforming to their own sound rather than their producers’. Three decades on, the classic underneath the bad production has been revealed, proving that the excitement they generated in their home base of Los Angeles was not mere hype.

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Wax-Covered Earplugs

by Tim Bugbee
Tim Bugbee

Radiohead with Grizzly Bear - Comcast Center (Mansfield MA) - Wednesday, August 13, 2008

BOSTON – Aug 15

Radiohead’s now king, but rather than press you against the wall they will lift you out of your seat.

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Downloader Frolics

by Chuck Foster
Chuck Foster

Interview: Mike Riddick of Metalhit.com (Part 1)

NEW YORK – Aug 17

Part One of an interview with the internet metal mogul.

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File Under: Alt. City

by Chris Stroffolino
Chris Stroffolino

Drama Review: San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival at Oakland's Happiness Hotel (August 22nd)

OAKLAND – Aug 22
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JapaneseGod JesusRobot

by Matthew Berlyant
Matthew Berlyant

Radiohead with Grizzly Bear - Susquehanna Bank Center (Philadelphia, PA) - Tuesday, August 12, 2008

PHILADELPHIA – Aug 13

If there were any surprises, it was that they played so much material from The Bends.

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The Business of Art

by John Davidson
John R. Davidson

The Music Industry's Most Amusing Myth: It Can't Compete With Free

ATLANTA – Nov 26

If the industry reduces their failure down to pricing competition, then they will always lose to the lowest price.

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Shadowtime

by Kristen Sollee
Kristen Sollee

Tamaryn - Led Astray, Washed Ashore (Tamaryn)

NEW YORK – Aug 10

Somber and seductive, brooding and atmospheric, Tamaryn’s debut EP is filled with the kind of shimmering songs that alto chanteuses like Nico and Siouxsie Sioux offered us in years past.

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Static From My Heart

by Dave Heaton
Dave Heaton

Nada Surf - Lucky (Barsuk)

PHILADELPHIA – Apr 13

In a sense Lucky is an album of love songs. But refreshingly these are love songs that aren’t narrow in scope and don’t rely on clichés.

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Children Must Have Rock n Roll

by Rachel Pesin
Rachel Pesin

The Kooks - EMI Rooftop/Terminal 5 (New York) - Wednesday, June 11, 2008

NEW YORK – Jun 15

On Wednesday, June 11, I had a Kooks-filled day with two Kooks shows.

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Pop Overdose

by Suzanne Baran
Suzanne Baran

Epicon - Globus (Globus Music)

LOS ANGELES – Aug 16

Nowadays a commingling of diverse music genres seem to create and embody new genres. A current example of this musical hybrid is an album called EPICON by myriad composers, known quite apropos as, GLOBUS.

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