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	<description>It takes a village to rock your face off</description>
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		<title>Ted Leo sheds stress of deadlines, record label, for new LP &#8216;The Brutalist Bricks&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After releasing &#8220;Living With the Living&#8221; in 2007, Ted Leo &#38; the Pharmacists got off to a fast start on the follow-up. It also proved to be a false start.
Recording sessions went nowhere, prompting the band to take a year-long break from the studio — just in time to spend the summer opening for Pearl [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/10/ted-leo-brutalist-bricks/</link>
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		<title>Back to the &#8217;90s: Deee-Lite and &#8216;World Clique&#8217; bring house to mainstream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[House music may have originated in Chicago, but it was New York City&#8217;s Deee-Lite that put it on the map. A trio comprising vocalist Lady Miss Kier and DJs Towa Tei and Dmitri, Deee-Lite dropped their début &#8220;World Clique&#8221; in August of 1990.
Best known for the hit single &#8220;Groove Is in the Heart,&#8221; featuring Bootsy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/10/deee-lite-world-clique/</link>
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		<title>Danger Mouse and James Mercer team up as Broken Bells on self-titled debut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pairing Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton with Cee-lo Green in Gnarls Barkley seemed natural. Setting him up with Beck, the Black Keys, MF Doom and Gorillaz made sense, too. But putting Danger Mouse in a recording studio with Shins frontman James Mercer is a less intuitive choice.
No one’s saying the Shins aren’t soulful in their own [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/09/broken-bells-review/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Preview: She &amp; Him</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only is their second album a delightful leap forward, She &#38; Him is bringing it to you live with a handful of shows at SXSW that come as part of a spring tour.
Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward have outdone themselves on &#8220;Volume Two&#8221; (due March 23 on Merge): the vintage-style pop songs are catchier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/09/sxsw-preview-she-him/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Preview: Choir of Young Believers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Danish rock reaching U.S. shores in recent years has ridden a vintage sound, be it the stylish fuzztone songs of the Raveonettes or the garage-rock rave-ups of the Blue Van.
Choir of Young Believers seems to have an eye on the future with its music — essentially folk-pop songs with lush, soaring arrangements and dreamy, almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/08/sxsw-preview-choir-of-young-believers/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Preview: Strange Boys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The buzz that surrounded the Strange Boys at last year&#8217;s SXSW has only grown stronger, and the teenage garage-rockers just released their sophomore album, &#8220;Be Brave,&#8221; on super-cool indie label In The Red in the U.S. and Rough Trade in Britain.
Listen, Dammit, saw them play last year in a packed tent on a sweltering night [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/06/sxsw-preview-strange-boys/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Preview: Star &amp; Micey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a buzz last week when word filtered down that Big Star had added a show at SXSW. It&#8217;s going to be mobbed, of course (we&#8217;re glad we saw them last year in Brooklyn), but they&#8217;re not the only Ardent Studios band hitting Austin: Star &#38; Micey will be there, too, with Big Star [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/05/sxsw-preview-star-and-micey/</link>
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		<title>Jaguar Love blends relentless hooks with abrasive noise on &#8216;Hologram Jams&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s entirely possible that no one has ever struck as perfect a balance between abrasion and accessibility as Jaguar Love does on its new album, “Hologram Jams” (Fat Possum).
The record is a bracing amalgam of pounding dance beats, huge candy-colored hooks and Johnny Whitney’s throat-shredding vocals — it’s like a glass-gargling derelict with a sequencer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/05/jaguar-love-hologram-jams/</link>
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		<title>SXSW Preview: Kaiser Cartel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With this year&#8217;s South by Southwest festival less than two weeks away, it&#8217;s time to start picking some bands to see in Austin. First up, Kaiser Cartel.
The Brooklyn duo describes itself as &#8220;low-fi, song-driven, harmony-heavy,&#8221; which sounds about right when you add that the pair is equally at home with a hazy, &#8217;60s California-pop sound [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/04/sxsw-preview-kaiser-cartel/</link>
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		<title>Portland band A Weather gives away lovely, quiet tune from sophomore album</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about a grower: On first listen, we were bored 3 seconds in to &#8220;Giant Stairs,&#8221; a song from A Weather&#8217;s new album, &#8220;Everday Balloons.&#8221; Ten seconds later, we were riveted.
There&#8217;s a slow-burning quality to the tune as it moves from a spare guitar intro to hushed harmony vocals from Aaron Gerber and drummer Sarah [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listendammit.com/2010/03/03/a-weather-giant-stairs-mp3/</link>
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