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Sep 13, 05
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 The Montreal four-piece The Stills are nothing like Interpol, but like those New York City suit-wearing hipsters, The Stills create a stately, post-punk sound quite obviously inspired by the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen and Joy Division whether they intended to or not. Having known one another since the age of 12, vocalist Tim Fletcher, drummer Dave Hamelin, guitarist Greg Paquet, and bassist Oliver Crowe played in various bands until forming The Stills in 2000. These art school students moved from their beloved Canada for a two-month stay in NYC to design a lush, swarthy pop style with the help a four-track recorder. Rumor has it that The Stills helped a friend in Barcelona who was in need of some drug money and in return, he gave The Stills this fancy machine. In turn, the lads found themselves sleeping on friends' couches in the East Village in summer 2002 with a batch of songs. A deal with Vice followed before the year's end, however joint shows with The Music, The Rapture, The Streets, Yeah Yeah Yeah's as well as Interpol were what cemented The Stills a dominating spot among the ever-changing rock scene. The Rememberese EP appeared in June 2003 and stateside dates with Interpol followed that fall. The band's full-length debut Logic Will Break Your Heart arrived in October. ~ MacKenzie Wilson, All Music Guide  A classic guitar pop group almost nine years in the making, Albuquerque, NM's the Shins began in 1997 as the side project of singer/songwriter and guitarist James Mercer's primary band Flake. Mercer formed Flake in 1992 with drummer Jesse Sandoval, keyboardist Marty Crandall, and bassist Neal Langford; they eventually changed their name to Flake Music, releasing several singles, a well-received album, When You Land Here, It's Time to Return, and touring with friends like Modest Mouse and Califone. Soon after the release of When You Land Here, Mercer and Sandoval formed the Shins as a change of pace, playing as a duo with Cibo Matto and American Analog Set. With Mercer as the Shins' primary songwriter, the group developed a more focused, crafted sound than Flake Music's charming, if somewhat rambling, collaboratory style. Crandall, as well as Scared of Chaka's Dave Hernandez and Ron Skrasek, filled out the Shins' lineup; however, Hernandez and Skrasek left after a short while, due to the success of their main project. By 1999, Flake Music essentially disbanded and Langford also joined the Shins. With a couple of 7"s on Omnibus -- 1998's Nature Bears a Vacuum and 2000's When I Goose-Step -- under their belts, the group embarked on a tour with Modest Mouse. Sub Pop's Jonathan Poneman caught the San Francisco date of the tour and asked the Shins to contribute a single to the label's Single of the Month Club, which eventually became an offer to release the Shins' 2001 single, New Slang, and their debut album, Oh, Inverted World. The group spent the rest of the year touring with acts such as Preston School of Industry and Red House Painters. The release of singles such as "Know Yr Onion!" and "The Past and the Pending" kept the Shins' success going into 2002, cementing Oh, Inverted World as one of the definitive indie-rock albums of the early '00s and the Shins as one of the style's definitive bands. By the time the band recorded their second album Chutes Too Narrow, Langford was replaced on bass by Dave Hernandez. Chutes Too Narrow was released in fall 2003. ~ Heather Phares, All Music Guide The frames. Dublin, Ireland, alternative pop band the Frames was led by the gifted singer/songwriter Glen Hansard, who quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local streets. At 17, he borrowed money from his parents to record a demo, pressing 50 copies that he distributed to family and friends; one of the copies made its way to Island Records' Danny Cordell, who successfully lobbied label founder Chris Blackwell to sign Hansard to the roster. With the jump to Island, Hansard founded the Frames, taking the name from his childhood fascination with bicycles; he regularly repaired his friends' bikes, and with the frames scattered about his family's yard, their home was consequently known as "the house with the frames." The group, which included guitarist Dave Odlum, vocalist Noreen O'Donnell, bassist John Carney, violinist Colm Mac An Iomaire, and drummer Paul Brennan, made its debut at an Irish music festival in September 1990, and -- after a brief hiatus to allow Hansard to co-star in Alan Parker's hit film The Commitments -- issued their debut single "The Dancer" in early 1992. With producer Gil Norton, whose work with the Pixies was a major sonic influence on the sessions, the Frames (sometimes credited as the Frames D.C. to avoid confusion with an American group of the same name) completed their debut album Another Love Song, but a scheduled U.S. tour was canceled when Mac An Iomaire fell ill and Carney quit; bassist Graham Downey was quickly added, but following a subsequent shake-up in Island's roster, the band was left without a label. Moreover, O'Donnell left the lineup in the midst of recording the follow-up, the 1994 ZTT label release Fitzcarraldo. Bassist Joe Doyle soon replaced Downey, with Dave Hingerty assuming Brennan's drumming duties for the Frames' third full-length, 1999's lo-fi Dance the Devil. Again, the band switched labels, signing to Chicago-based indie Overcoat to record their fourth and finest effort, 2001's haunting For the Birds. Where previous Frames records often suffered from over-production, For the Birds (recorded in part by Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio Studios) boasts an intimacy and fragility perfectly complementing Hansard's quivering vocals and heart-wrenching compositions. Despite critical hosannas, Odlum left the band in November 2001 to focus on production work, with Simon Goode stepping in on lead guitar duties. A U.S. tour planned for the following month was suspended in the wake of the death of Hansard's close friend and sometime collaborator Mic Christopher, former frontman of the Mary Janes. The Frames finally made it to the States in support of the New Pornographers during the winter of 2002. Earlier that year they released their first live album Breadcrumb Trail. The Frames next release was 2003's The Roads Outgrown, a nine track collection of studio outtakes. Their first for Anti, Set List was released in February 2004. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide If you havent heard of the rest you're living under a rock! 
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Sep 13, 05
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JET,Oasis,JET,OASIS,JET,OASIS...
ok i'm sorry but after being in the FRONT ROW..yes the fucken godamn FRONT ROW watching the god that is noel gallagher and the dumbas yet oh so out of this world liam at this concert I cannot stop worshipping both of these amazingly wonderful bands...hollllyyyy Then there's dashboard who I saw in seattle last week too and was fucking UNREAL.. not that these bands are new but I love the decemberists,brand new and something corporate, foo fighters are on the top of my list
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im still all about the Mike Jones movement.
yo mateo -- come out sat nite to the party. i`ll pick u up around 2am on the way there if ur down. DRINk it uP hard.
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Sep 14, 05
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I LOVE Death Cab...especially the new album. Ok. It's the ONLY album I've heard:(. I have to buy Transatlanticism. People tell me it's the best one of all. I think I'll follow their instructions (but if it's better than Plans I'm going to...be a very very happy person.)
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Sep 14, 05
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Death Cab is King! I can't get enough. Transatlanticism is the best one i think too. But I stoked to see them in october!!!!!!!!
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The Early November
The Academy is... Motion City Soundtrack Funeral For a Friend <3 <3 From First to Last Hawthorne Heights
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Sep 14, 05
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weezer
metric the strokes the bloc party the bravery broken social scene the stars the cribs modest mouse and theres more.. its just too early for me to think lol
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Sep 14, 05
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radiohead
elliott smith (if he wasn't dead i'd be front row!) metric (i think i'm gonna head to this concert, too) modest mouse postal service pinback the shins death cab for cutie (concert october 4th) beck new pornographers simian the unicorns starlight mints
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