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Cobra Starship makes Blast blush

LOWELL - Samuel L. Jackson might have had enough of those motherfucking snakes on that motherfucking plane, but three years later, Cobra Starship (which outfitted the title song for the 2006 summer reptilian th...
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Andrea Gillis and her band

CAMBRIDGE -- As I walked into the Plough and Stars about a month ago I felt slightly ill at ease. The cover was $7, and the space was packed. With little room to move, I worked my way to the front to meet singe...
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The Camilo Project

The Camilo Project and its members, Jason "Camilo" Margaca and siblings Mark and Patrina Foley, are trying create something completely different. With a sound that departs from your run-of-the-mill alternati...
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Blink is back

Blink 182 has reunited. In statements posted on their website and MySpace, the punk rock band talks about a tour and a new album coming in the summer. Hi. We're blink-182. This past week there've been a l...
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Fall Out Boy: From then ’til now

Despite how you might feel about Fall Out Boy, there is no denying they have a tendency to be infectious. Now their fourth album, "Folie A Deux," is out in stores and the first just-as-catchy single "I Don't Care" is already hitting the airwaves. Whether this latest record will go down in history as the biggest sell out of the generation or punk-emo martyrs for the masses has yet to be determined, but try and find someone who doesn't know the words to one of their songs. Just try.
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Loquat spills its “Secrets”

Tour stories from San Francisco based indie-pop group Loquat sound a lot more like a haphazard family vacation with a tight budget than a trip to perform in cities around the U.S. [...]
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Surf’s Up for The Stills

When "Oceans" is released on August 19th, there's a good chance The Stills' summertime good fortune will continue. It’s their strongest record to date, coming on the heels of 2003's "Logic Will Break Your Heart" and 2006's "Without Feathers."
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CSS for the summer

Opener "Jager Yoga" includes delightfully nonsensical phrases like "Desperate Living, Hairspray / Baltimore with Tanqueray / Live your life John Waters' way." "Let's Reggae All Night" makes it hard to resist the urge to do just that.
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The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

Any serious music buff will tell you that a band's second album is a make or break-type deal, especially if that band's first release amassed enormous amounts of critical and commercial acclaim. In the case ...