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BOWIE, WILCO AMONG 'HEROES' The award-winning sci-fi series Heroes may not be making its triumphant return to... (more) RAY DAVIES A 'WORKING MAN' AGAIN Legendary British wiseacre genius Ray Davies is playing some select live dates... (more) ANIMAL COLLECTIVE BEWAIL 'WATER CURSES' The NYC-by-way-of-Maryland Animal Collective has unearthed a succinct... (more) CUMBAYA WITH MEDESKI MARTIN AND WOOD For all of you whose summers of poision ivy rashes and Chubby Bunny... (more) COUNTING CROWS GIVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE The Counting Crows are enabling their fans to participate in some... (more) BLUE SCHOLARS' LATEST DISSERTATION Seattle-based hip-hop duo Blue Scholars will be dropping their... (more) SKATAR WINS SONICBIDS Skatar is the winner of this week's CMJ Sonicbids Spotlight. The Icelandic fivesome... (more) ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT R.I.P. For a band that brazenly cribbed its name from perhaps the most criminally underrated pre-punk band (Rocket From The Tombs), and hailed from the usually peppy-mood mecca of California no less, this San Diego guitar army ultimately laid a deep footprint on the mostly arid (but soon to get sweaty) landscape of raw rock 'n' roll in the early 1990s. Speedo didn't blabber like most Margaret Thatcher-on-helium pop-punk singers populating southern Cali at the time. The guitars ascended with the horns for a massive bulldozer of riff-push that took the best of '90s garage punk... (more) DOWNLOAD "Born In"

"[Music] has never stopped being this therapeutic thing. I don't write because I want to write. I write because I need to." (more) 1. GIRLS LIKE CIGARETTES - "Combustible You" 2. LIA - "Say Oooh" 3. HANNE HUKKELBERG - "Cheaters Armoury" 4. BAD FLIRT - "Heart Of Darkness" 5. QUINN WALKER - "Save Your Love For Me"

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