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  • Vulture Smile

    Vulture Smile tops Blank Club freebie

    This Wednesday, April 10th, The Blank Club hosts some homegrown ear candy, as the indie-pop kids, Vulture Smile, spends the night screaming and carrying on for anyone who cares to listen.You should care to listen.  The San...

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  • the vaccines 2011 what did you expect from the vaccines front cover album art

    The Vaccines: ‘What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?’ (2011)

    The Vaccines fill vacuum of British pop-rock bands of the 2000s like the Libertines and Arctic Monkeys with What Did You Expect from the Vaccines? Slightly reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain dry, poppier, noise pop, and 60s...

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  • the vaccines 2012 come of age front cover album art

    The Vaccines: ‘Come of Age’ (2012)

    After the mediocre Please, Please Do Not Disturb, the Vaccines put out another set of shallow and careless indie rocker anthems albeit more personal sounding with Come of Age. The songs are slightly more varied than before but more uneven...

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  • fiona apple 2012 The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver... front cover album art

    Fiona Apple: ‘The Idler Wheel is Wiser than the Driver…’ (2012)

    Fiona Apple has towed the line of the blue eyed soul genre that she became a superstar with in the 1990s on Tidal and released subsequent albums with greater amounts of time between without much progress or refinement of her...

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  • public image ltd 1987 happy front cover album art

    Public Image Ltd: Happy? (1987)

    If This Is What You Want… was Public Image Ltd selling out and Album was a selling of their souls, then Happy? is echo heard after dropping pop-rock clichés into to a well of “professional&rdquo...

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  • public image ltd 1986 album front cover album art

    Public Image Ltd: Album (1986)

    If This Is What You Want…This Is What You Get was Public Image Ltd selling out their idealized anti-rock, then Album was them selling their souls to make above average 80s pop music, but pathetic PiL music...

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  • neon trees 2012 picture show front cover album art

    Neon Trees: Picture Show (2012)

    Neon Trees debuted with the underwhelming and belated radio friendly alternative pop-rock with Habits. They have since graduated to slightly adopting the latest trend of reaching back to the new wave’s synth and cheesy guitar effects that...

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  • the replacements 1984 let it be front cover album art

    The Replacements: Let It Be (Twin/Tone, 1984)

    One of the most emotional pop albums of all time came from the late punks The Replacements. They kept the punk pathos that they displayed on Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash and matured with it into the...

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  • Honor Society rocks the red kettle (Photos)

    On November 27th, Honor Society played to a crowd of enthusiastic Atlantans at The Five Spot in Little Five Points as part of the Salvation Army's Rock the Red Kettle Tour. The purpose of the Rock the...

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  • Song of the Day:  "Breathe (2 AM)" by Anna Nalick

    Song of the Day: "Breathe (2 AM)" by Anna Nalick

    Anna Nalick is a singer-songwriter from California who, according to her Columbia Records biography, began writing songs when she was in fifth grade.  While in high school she performed with a Rush cover band called Brisket and credits...

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