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>>Fri:04-18-03
.: The Rapture to release new full-length, launch North American tour
.: Costello bonus tracks announced
.: Wire support new LP with tour
.: Lou Reed tours the world

>>Thu:04-17-03
.: Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It in People gets U.S. Release
.: Broadcast record new EP, tour
.: Black Dice tour Europe
.: Pleasure Forever finish new LP

>>Tue:04-15-03
.: Radiohead, Beck, Interpol, Sigur Rós sign on for Field Day Fest
.: Decemberists tour, plan new LP
.: McLusky record new album, tour
.: Summer Hymns prepare new album

>>Mon:04-14-03
.: Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green quits, band recording new LP
.: Strokes, Interpol, Leo on NY comp
.: Giddy Motors tour Europe
.: Versus, +/- tour the U.S.

>>Fri:04-11-03
.: Beck tours with Dashboard, grabs guest spot on next Macy Gray album
.: Liars cancel tour, work on new LP
.: My Morning Jacket work on LP, tour
.: Q & Not U injury cancels tour

>>Thu:04-10-03
.: Grandaddy finish recording new full-length, announce 2003 world tour
.: Don Cab's Ian forms new band
.: Daniel Johnston gets reissued
.: Brokeback tour North America

>>Wed:04-09-03
.: Blood Brothers announce U.S. tour
.: Joan of Arc release leftover LP
.: Lambchop to play SF film fest
.: Appendix Out frontman solo LP

>>Tue:04-08-03
.: Sigur Rós to release single for "Untitled #1", tour festival circuit
.: Nick Cave tours, Bargeld leaves
.: Calvin Johnson mangles finger
.: Set Fire to Flames release 2xCD

>>Mon:04-07-03
.: Wilco shelve Kamera EP, issue documentary on 2xDVD, tour the U.S.
.: Pedro the Lion tours w/Ester Drang
.: Ex-Models prepare new LP, tour
.: Denali to embark on April tour


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>>Fri:04-18-03
Lisa Germano:
Lullaby for Liquid Pig

[ArtistDirect]
by Chris Ott

Former 4AD singer/songwriter returns after a five-year absence with a powerful comeback, an album that relies as much on its intensely beautiful production as its delicate songwriting.

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.: S-Process: Mnml
Dance-punk lunatics release their second album on Les Savy Fav's Frenchkiss label, cleverly balancing their disco beats with a smart emotionalism.

.: Hidden Cameras: Smell of Our Own
Released, perhaps appropriately, on Rough Trade, this gaycore pop opus recalls The Tall Dwarfs, Magnetic Fields, and the more orchestral moments of Belle & Sebastian. And it's about pissing on other dudes!

.: Ogurusu Norihide: Modern
The death knell is ringing for laptop minimalism, that increasingly predict-able form of post-modern audio Zen.

.: Bangs: Call and Response
After documenting the riot-grrl explosion of the mid-90s, Kill Rock Stars are lately supporting a wave of imitation, care of the choir they preached to almost ten years ago.

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Thursday, April 17th, 2003
.: Fruit Bats: Mouthfuls
.: Cul de Sac: Death of the Sun
.: Mika Vainio: In the Land of the Blind the One-Eyed Is King
.: Dwayne Sodahberk: Don't Want...
.: Red Snapper: Red Snapper

Tuesday, April 15th, 2003
.: Swirlies: Cats of the Wild, Vol. 2
.: Theoretical Girls: Theoretical Girls
.: Super Numeri: Great Aviaries
.: Lab Partners: Daystar
.: Pas/Cal: The Handbag Memoirs

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>>Thu:02-27-03
Column: Resonant Frequency #20: "Electroacoustic Nuggets"
by Mark Richardson


"If you were to trace your relationship to music on a graph, with the x axis representing time and y representing your current engagement with what's playing, the resulting line would mostly consist of small squiggles interrupted by an occasional spike upward. These are the moments when you hear something new and exciting for the first time. Sometimes an entire plane of music, heretofore unexplored, suddenly spreads out before you and fulfills a need you've long had, maybe one you weren't even aware of..."

Get That Out of Your Mouth #2:
"The Indie Rock of Dawson's Creek"

by Chris Dahlen

.: Get That Out of Your Mouth #1:
"Harvard at the Movies: A Hundred Years of Shame
; by Chris Dahlen


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