BAGeL Radio, one of the iTunes radio station streams, often plays stuff that I haven't heard before. Gimme Noise is another great stream, but typically sticks to the more widely known bands. These two stations help me tolerate the workday and sometimes turn me on to new stuff.One of my BAGeL Radio discoveries was [the] Caseworker. Both the radio station and the band are out of San Francisco. Appar
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The Evens Get Evens
Get The Evens newest album Get Evens, it is excellent. Their extreme minimalism makes for white hot head bobbing stomp. But as angry as they are, their sound is relentlessly happy.The Evens are about positive resistance, reminding us to march instead of chuck Molotov cocktails. They are not so much a duo but a couple, accessible and intimate, underscoring their message to cooperate and be politica
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Early Day Miners
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If the mood evoked by the Early Day Miners has anything to do with Indiana, it must be one of the most beautiful parts of America. These mid-westerners need to fall on more ears.http://www.myspace.com/earlydayminersband
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Valley of the Giants
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Check out the Canadian project Valley of the Giants. Members from Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, et al, got together and, along with inspiration from the sci-fi flick Westworld, recorded on a four-track. Their songs are like the thoughts of tiny things amidst a Grand Canyon of emotion.http://www.myspace.com/valleyofthegiants
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Silver Lakes
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Luckily, Steven Satterfield, ex-founding member of Seely, is still making music. Though a little more lilting than Seely, the new project, called Silver Lakes, still has all the pleasant dreaminess that Seely had.http://www.myspace.com/silverlakesmusic
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The Black Pine
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The Black Pine rock in slow-mo, drawing you in with peaceful emotive grooves.http://www.myspace.com/blackpine
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Tom Verlaine
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It's great that NPR archives their stuff for guys like me who always seem to miss the really good interviews that turn up on the radio.http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5552242
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