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Kate Havnevik: 4 To Watch

By Mary Richardson on 12:00 AM on April 1, 2007

Electronica unplugged” may sound like a contradiction, but it’s not Kate Havnevik’s style to let anything—especially lack of a better word—put limits on her music.  read more

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Vega4: 4 To Watch

By Tom Lanham on 12:00 AM on April 1, 2007

Hometown: London, England Members: Johnny McDaid (vocals, guitar—pictured), Bruce Gainsford (guitar), Gavin Fox (bass), Bryan McLellan (drums) Fun fact: As a teen, Johnny McDaid took guitar lessons from John O’Neill of the Undertones. For tenpence a session, he “learned how to play ‘Teenage Kicks!’” Why they’re worth watching: With Snow Patrol producer Garret “Jacknife” Lee behind them, their major-label debut You And Others echoes that band’s majestic vibe. For fans of: U2, Travis, Snow Patrol Tink-tink-tink! Vega4 frontman Johnny McDaid is all too familiar with the sound—that of a billy club rapping on the window of his roadside-parked MG, waking...  read more

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Record Store: Minding the Store

By Wes Orshoski on 12:00 AM on April 1, 2007

Anyone who’s lost countless Saturday afternoons flipping head-down through stinky vinyl or fingerprint-spotted jewel cases in search of that rare promo or undetected diamond-in-the-rough understands the enormous divide between the nearby run-of-the-mill chain store and your local music temple.  read more

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Modest Mouse

By Corey DuBrowa on 10:50 AM on March 28, 2007

BLIZZARD OF ODD Welcome to Sony Pictures Studios, serving all your production needs now and in the future. This cheerfully innocuous sign greets visitors to Sony Pictures Studios’ famous Stage 27 in Culver City, Calif., essentially Glitterville’s Ground Zero, and the site where the Wizard of Oz’s Munchkinland scenes were filmed nearly 70 years ago. It’s a place that has witnessed more than its share of cinematic oddities over the years (Under the Rainbow, anybody?) and, in this context, the project currently occupying the mammoth 32,000-square-foot facility is just another brick in the wall of historic Tinseltown weirdness. Formerly-indie rock...  read more

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