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		<title>Lucero at Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV 2/21/10</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabe Carroll</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lucero perform at Mountain Stage in Charleston, West Virginia on February 21, 2010. 
Copyright 2010 Gabe Carroll / Back To You Photography









 
 
 
 
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		<title>THE DUKE &amp; THE KING: On the Horizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jewly Hight</dc:creator>
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The Duke and the King, at the Basement in Nashville on August 11.
Simone Felice’s journey from his sibling-led group, The Felice Brothers, to his new band with Robert “Chicken” Burke, The Duke &#38; The King, lends itself to various interpretations. Sonically, it marks a shift from country-rock leanings to mellowed, harmony-sweetened country-soul, though he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DRUG RUG &gt; Paint the Fence Invisible</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dustin Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This album is hardly the tossed-off valentine their reputation might suggest.]]></description>
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		<title>THE FEATURES: On the Horizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Hooker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Songs are not always what they seem; never confidently infer meanings of a lyric from a band's bio . . .]]></description>
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		<title>Sonic Youth @ The War Memorial &#8211; Nashville, TN &#8211; 7/11/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Drew Litowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Thurston Moore cares, he’d just like you to think he doesn’t.  At the wise age of 50, he retains the stage presence of a teenage slacker. Though he’s been crafting dissonant post-punk with Sonic Youth for nearly 30 years, the guy could seriously pass for a college student.  As he effortlessly throws himself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JOHN VANDERSLICE: On Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Fink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept album lives on in the less grandiose visions of indie rock auteurs Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) and John Vanderslice . . .]]></description>
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		<title>25 Of Our Favorite Songs From 1984-2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>americansongwriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The older one gets, the more one looks back at those years now gone. American Songwriter's reached the ripe age of 25 and the best years are ahead. But as happy as turning 25 makes us, we decided to look back at all the songs we've found and loved since 1984, the year the magazine started . . .]]></description>
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		<title>MOBY: Carry On</title>
		<link>http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/moby-carry-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Zollo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s an early Monday morning, and Moby, in Clark Kent glasses, is drinking green tea at the Sunset Towers, former home to much Hollywood royalty.

It’s an early Monday morning, and Moby, in Clark Kent glasses, is drinking green tea at the Sunset Towers, former home to much Hollywood royalty. He’s here to hype his newest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BOMBADIL &gt; Tarpits and Canyonlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Fink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tarpits and Canyonlands still defies easy categorization, setting up camp at the confluence of Paul Simon, Ben Folds, and The Decemberists with a series of bounding piano-pop ditties, humble acoustic guitar ballads, and rollicking folk-pop anthems that make the occasional Bolivian folk sing-along seem like an outlier.]]></description>
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		<title>PATTERSON HOOD &gt; Murdering Oscar (and Other Love Songs)</title>
		<link>http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/07/patterson-hood-murdering-oscar-and-other-love-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Steele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the help of friends such as David Barbe, Centro-Matic's Will Johnson, his father, David Hood, Don Chambers and members of Drive-By Truckers, Hood has created a dynamic record that features the rich songwriting we've come to expect from him.]]></description>
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