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Music festivals are an odd thing, and College Music Journal's annual New York buzzathon is absolutely no exception. Well over a thousand bands play officially and unofficially during its four days, attempting to attract some of the game-changing eyes milling and handshaking around lower Manhattan and west Brooklyn.

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​"Freedom-loving American" and the country's most famous skivvy-clad busker the Naked Cowboy has announced his 2012 bid for the Presidency.

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Still buzzing from their packed EP-release show earlier this month in the Entry, Estate just dropped a video for their EP's title track, "Nuclear City." (Read our review of the EP here.)

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The Dessa-curated Cadence hip-hop series at the Guthrie will pick up again on October 28 with P.O.S. As with the series of shows Dessa hosted in the same location back in May, her evening with P.O.S should be an intimate and unique experience, part discussion and part performance and collaboration, with additional input by Big Zach of Kanser.

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Local Natives are like a fine German automobile; their musical success has gone from 0 to 60 without so much as blinking an eye.

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Let's not get it twisted.

Bon Iver's "Woods" is an amazing, mesmerizing song, a sort of Daft-Punk-gone-acapella existentialist mediation on loneliness and self-doubt that deftly exploits repetition and Autotune to make a gothic, isolationist point about how every man is, ultimately, an island.

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​When Naked Raygun was born in 1981, one can only assume the Chicago punks never intended to be releasing records in 2010. Now spanning four decades, the band's career has seen its members change and its sound develop from early hardcore to a more melodic Buzzcocks-styled approach. In that time, they have also seen rampant changes in the music industry around them, leading to the decision to make their first release of new material since 1992 come not on a long-playing CD, but as a series of 7" singles.

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Bone is returning, semi-triumphantly (they've had a tough decade, after all) to the Mainroom tonight with the "original lineup" in tow -- not including Bizzy, the high-pitched attack dog of the Lord, who has been a solo artist since 1998...sort of.

Gimme Noise and three other journalists from around the country spoke with Wish Bone in a round robin interview about the tour and um, some other details.

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​This Saturday, two separate and ever-evolving bands with two entirely separate interpretations of indie folk will come together for a dual CD-release show at First Avenue. In honor of this huge show, we sat down with members of both Dark Dark Dark and Roma di Luna to talk about their latest projects for this week's print edition of City Pages.

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In anticipation of their upcoming production of Unspeakable Things, a play based on the lives of eccentric St. Paul natives Donald and Howard Wandrei, the Sandbox Theatre has unveiled an online album of six songs penned by local artists just for the project.

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