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		<title>Band of the Week: The Away Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr In the past 18 months, the college-formed Istanbul indie dream rock band The Away Days have been on quite a whirlwind journey, performing alongside music giants like Pulp and Kaiser Chiefs (at the One Love Festival), as well as Mark Ronson and Sam Sparro (at and Adidas All Originals Party event), and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s PAWS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr The Glasgow lo-fi garage/punk pop trio PAWS gun it on their latest single, “Miss American Bookworm,” blasting out from the starting gate with a fast-driving, rhythmic, and vibrantly melodic romp. PAWS&#8217; new album, Cokefloat!, released by Fat Cat Records, captures the energy and rawness (or &#8216;pawness&#8217;) of the band’s live shows, and per the title, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week: Ohio&#8217;s The Motel Beds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr There&#8217;s something weirdly wonderful and charming about the otherwise slacker rock sound of Dayton, Ohio band The Motel Beds. It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve heard such a promising band from the Buckeye State. It&#8217;s not for lack of press that The Motel Beds haven&#8217;t broken out to a larger scene yet; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week &#8211; Helsinki, Finland&#8217;s Shoegaze/Dream Pop Band, Scarlet Youth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr * Update 1/19/13: We&#8217;ve resolved most issues with site accessibility and slowness. Should be much faster now.  Thanks for your feedback and patience. The Helsinki, Finland band Scarlet Youth is barely on the North American indie music radar; in fact, it&#8217;s almost like they&#8217;re flying stealth. Coupled with their raw talent, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week: Sheffield, England&#8217;s The Crookes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr With a band name like The Crookes, it&#8217;s understandable to conjure up the image of a band of scruffy, rebel-rousing, hard-drinking young hoodlums stirring up mischief and banging out angst-driven punk rock songs. But instead, this Sheffield-based band delivers retro pop rock blended with elements of the C86 sound of the post punk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overseas Band to Watch: Hong Kong Shoegaze, Post-Punk Band, The Yours</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr By Maxwell Silver You probably won&#8217;t hear the latest singles from the band, The Yours, on any other major indie blog or website, but the Lona Records recording artist from Hong Kong got our attention with two tracks they sent us from The Way We Were, which officially dropped last Saturday, September 15th. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist of the Week &#8211; Youth Lagoon: Boise Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter and Vocalist Trevor Powers Signs to Fat Possum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr &#8220;July&#8221; is a fresh track from Youth Lagoon, the Boise-based bedroom pop/one man band project of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist Trevor Powers. The new track is featured on a two-song 10&#8243; , The Year of Hiberation, featured on Powers&#8217; Bandcamp page via. &#8220;July&#8221; was released earlier this week, and appropriately so, considering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week: LA&#8217;s Folk Popsters Family of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr Los Angeles folk pop band Family of the Year appeared on our radar in December, thanks to a friend who turned us on to their brilliant, and addictive, 2009 release, Songbook. The LP is one of those albums that you find yourself loving more and more with each spin, and that you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week: Boston&#8217;s Elephantom Endorsed by Grizzly Bear; Blog Exclusive of Track for Upcoming LP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr The members of Grizzly Bear are fans. And so are we. Boston area band Elephantom, a musical collective of high school and college aged musicians, are IRC&#8217;s first unsigned &#8216;band to watch&#8217; of 2010. Plus, we have an exclusive new demo, &#8220;I Am Your Head,&#8221; provided by the band to IRC for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week: The Genre-Bending Music of Hosta</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr There are still plenty of fantastic songs and albums from 2009 that we&#8217;re catching up to, and we suspect that will extend into the first couple of months of the rapidly approaching 2010. Wow, it&#8217;s almost a new decade; let&#8217;s hope it is a better one than the 2000s &#8211; for everyone. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of The Week: Long Beach Folk Pop Band Avi Buffalo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr Eighteen-year-old Long Beach, Calif., guitarist and singer/songwriter Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, and his band, Avi Buffalo, have created quite a buzz within the indie music circles during the past year with their impressive folky pop hooks, intriguing lyrics and live shows. So it was no surprise to some when Seattle&#8216;s legendary Sub Pop Records [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Band of the Week: Canada&#8217;s The Weakerthans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Share on Tumblr The Weakerthans, a Canadian indie band from Winnipeg, put themselves on the music map back in the late 1990&#8242;s, and have been impressing critics and fans with subsequent, yet limited, releases ever since. The band&#8217;s latest album, Reunion Tour, released last fall, has received wide praise by the music press, bloggers and [...]]]></description>
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