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Monica McClure
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Jun 8, 2012
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"All The Things You Say Are Wrong." Right there, with the track title, Bloods have sold it to me. This song is an ode to the brat in all of us. Maybe I have a particular affinity with this song because I'm an irritating know-it-all, but it's probabl...
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Vanessa Torres
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Jun 8, 2012
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The Swedish quintet rockers The Hives have returned with their crowd-provoking fifth album, Lex Hives, after a few hiatus years and "Go Right Ahead" is their first single. With this track, they prove that they've stuck with what made them popular in ...
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Monica McClure
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Jun 7, 2012
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Punk music, you took a terrible detour during the 90s, but I am learning to forgive you with your latest wave of lo-fi tunes. I'm not entirely sure how to explain the attraction of messy, mumbley, repetitive, wall-of-sound music like "Something Happe...
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Monica McClure
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Apr 30, 2012
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Bleeding Knees Club just want to have fun. They're a couple of surfie punk kids from Australia's Gold Coast that started jamming in a garage together, and recently turned out album Nothing To Do -- an ode to sun, girls, and generally just being irres...
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Hannah Levy
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Aug 13, 2011
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When I'm in the mood for pop, I normally tend to gravitate toward clean, crisp sounding music. However, for Bare Wires, I am totally willing to make an exception. They have a way of making fuzzy garage punk listenable. The Oakland-based band just ann...
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Lauren Sloss
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May 23, 2011
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Seriously, the Black Lips are everything I love about 1970s punk rock. Listening to them is like flashing back to high school, when The Buzzcocks and The Ramones ruled my discman (oh yes, remember those?). It's garage rock at its best.Black Lips' rhy...
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