On Music From marleenken.wordpress.com Alternative Jazz, Alternative Rock, AlternRock, Alternative Folk, Alternative Punk- and let me stop here to comment on the absurdity of that particular redundancy. If we can all agree that "alternative" means outside of the mainstream, possibly indie and possibly obscure even, and if we can also agree that "punk"is by its very nature all of these things plus rebellion then what is the necessity of stating the "alternative" in the "punk?"

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Art Brut: It’sa Bit Complicated From kimballkzg.wordpress.com On a decidedly more crowded playing field that saw releases from Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Kasabian, and even Jarvis Cocker during the first half of 2007 - Art Brut find themselves by Rinjo Njori. On a decidedly more crowded playing field that saw releases from Bloc Party, Maximo Park, Kasabian, and even Jarvis Cocker during the first half of 2007 - Art Brut find themselves knee deep in the once per decade British music explosion. Art Brut's follow up to 2005's Bang Bang Rock & Roll finds the...

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LondonEdge New York show dates announced From www.londonedge.com/londonedge_blog Announcing the next dates for LENY, the US tradeshow that is dedicated heart and soul to the alternative and street markets and to expending its energy into gathering together the whole, untapped East Coast alternative wholesale community. (Additionlly we are able to offer companies interested at showing at both LENY LondonEdge New York and LondonEdge UK an attractive dual booking package.

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New York foursome helps keep the fun in indie music From Daily Trojan Online While The Strokes were the scene's ultra-hip rockers, Interpol catered to a slightly more gothic, much more depressed clientele and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs gave hope to women rockers everywhere, stellastarr* has always seemed like a band that was there for the pure fun of playing music. Picked up by the major label RCA Records during the music industry's scramble to capitalize on the New York sound's success epitomized by The Strokes, stellastarr* self-titled a debut album that radiates the...

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