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  You Say Party! We Say Die!

  Dance Punk Grows Up

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2007

  You Say Party! We Say Die! vocalist Becky Ninkovic has gone from singing in the back of a suburban pizza shop to belting it out from coast...

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  The Blood Brothers

  Swimming in Uncharted Waters

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  "It’s our music, so we’ll do whatever we want,” says Jordan Blilie, one of two vocalists for the Blood Brothers. "I don’t feel any responsi...

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  Deerhoof

  Play Well With Others

  PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

  On a tiny island off the coast of Maine, 300 students from kindergarten to grade 12 are putting on a school musical. There are no painted b...

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  Jon-Rae and the River

  Smells Like Holy Spirit

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2006

  Jon-Rae Fletcher is drunk and breathless. After working an afternoon shift at a nearby bar, he just ran to his Toronto home in Kensington M...

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  OutKast

  Brothers From Another Planet

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  They altered hip-hop’s geographic axis and in some ways changed hip-hop itself. Andre 3000 and Big Boi emerged at a time when heads barely...

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  The Sadies

  The Family Way

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Waterloo had never seen a gathering of musicians like this. In the dressing room of the Starlight Club, Steve Albini and Jon Spencer caught...

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  MSTRKRFT

  The MSTRKRFT Moment

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  You can’t blame Jesse F. Keeler for not wanting to discuss the current status of Death From Above 1979 during an interview for his latest p...

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  Final Fantasy

  He Got Game

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2006

  Owen Pallett has never met a dichotomy he doesn’t love. As Final Fantasy, he’s a solo performer who sounds like a symphony. His music is pr...