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The Followill Family Band saw greater success overseas than stateside in their own homeland, but Only By The Night gave the Nashville quartet the breakthrough success that they’d been hunting for. Grab it for $4 today only.

Amusement Parks on Fire is a UK band bringing back the shoegaze.

Check out the latest from New Orleans’ finest, a band only 5 or 6 years into their current project that has already garnered Grammy noms and completely defined a genre all their own.

In this episode: Paper Route, Justice – Cross, Beefing up Drums with creative gating

In this episode:
- Airquote Abuse
- Seattle-based rock group Barcelona
- Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
- thesixtyone.com

I grew up on this one, and if you don’t already have it in your collection, it is a MUST own as one of the most prolific albums of all time.

Say hello to one of your favorite albums of 2009. Absence is the much anticipated debut from Nashville’s Paper Route.

This one has worked its way into my library of “must-haves.” Absolution is Muse’s best album to date. If you don’t have it already, give it a go.

4/28 UPDATE: Absence is available for download here.
Here’s some details regarding Paper Route’s tour. I would highly recommend you check them out if they’re anywhere near you. I’ve had the new album on rotation for a little while now, and am still not sick of it. All the textures are perfect, the melodies and lyrics [...]

As much of an odd paring as it initially sounds, Taylor Hanson, Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick, Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne and ex Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha make up Tinted Windows.

Faultline crosses several genre lines, mixing breakbeat electronic with the raw emotion found in more traditional pop music. It doesn’t hurt to have Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, and Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) contributing either.

Seattle-based Barcelona just announced this past December that they had been signed to Universal Records after about 3 years together.

The pioneers of shoegazer have added four US tour stops to follow up their April 19th stop in the deserts of California at Coachella.

After success with The White Stripes and The Raconteurs, Jack White has ventured out to start another supergroup, The Dead Weather.

Paper Route, a small little 4-piece indie group from Nashville, has garnered a lot of national attention with two small EP releases.