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WIN A 'DARJEELING LIMITED' PRIZE PACK Wes Anderson's latest flick Darjeeling Limited arrived in stores this week... (more) JUNIOR BOYS GET PHYSICAL Berlin-based dance music label Get Physical has announced a March 11 release date for the sixth... (more) SCOTT KEMPNER RETURNS Punk forefadda Scott Kempner is releasing his first solo album in 16 years. Saving Grace will land... (more) MIRACLE FORTRESS STOP AND SMELL THE 'ROSES' After being denied at the Canadian border in October, and... (more) DEVOTCHKA'S 'TELLING' TOUR DeVotchKa has announced its largest tour to date, including stops on this summer's festival route... (more) EMINEM REVEALS 'THE WAY I AM' Although his flagrantly lewd lyrics may suggest otherwise, Eminem is literate enough... (more) SWELL SEASON ANNOUNCES U.S. DATES Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard will be touring the US with their band the... (more) MAE SHI Hlllyh Noise rockers the Mae Shi's latest opus (their fourth) opens with the frantic "Lamb And The Lion," which moves at breakneck speed to the top of singer Jonathan Gray's lungs and back to dissonant chords and some crazy harmony. It's not clean and it's by no means beautiful, but that's not what this L.A.-based psycho-sextet are about. They're about raw, feral energy. And by that measure, this record is a runaway... (more) DOWNLOAD "Run To Your Grave"

"[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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