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• • Suicide Squeeze
  • Suicide Squeeze Records turns ten years old this year. And they're celebrating the crap out of the joyous occasion. Earlier this year, Suicide Squeeze hosted a three-day birthday party full of live music from their current and past roster, and just recently, the label released a compendium of sorts to celebrate the history and diversity of the label's back catalog.
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• • Soccer Team
  • It's a series of atmospheric vignettes recorded late at night in Nelson's Southeast DC basement. The songs offer an intimate portrait of life in and around the song writing duo, animating day-to-day minutia, terse analogy and a few amazingly sculpted instrumentals.
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• • Shanna Kiel
  • The music of Shanna Kiel is a really catchy, spastic and heavy version of female-fronted pissed off punk. I'd love to say that it reminds me of Hole before they got really self-indulgent, but I wouldn't do that to anyone (and actually, a lot of her guitar riffs sound more Kurt than Courtney.)
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• • Revival
  • So Revival is a band of bike riders from the Maryland/DC area. They feature members of the band Canyon, the album was recorded at J. Robbins' Magpie Cage in Baltimore, and judging from the likes of their one sheet, they don't take themselves too seriously. The music of Revival though, is not to be taken lightly.
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• • Requiem
  • Their sound is a dual vocal freight train of force that is complemented by an excellent recording, apparently made in their jam room. Requiem promotes free thinking, independence and also cites in their notes that they hope their music can help the listener to craft a life of beauty and creativity.
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• • Maps And Atlases
  • On Maps And Atlases first release, the band finds themselves adding, subtracting and multiplying their intricate brand of frantic math rock.
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• • Minus The Bear
  • It's a remix album, culled from the most recent Minus The Bear album 'Menos El Oso.' The folks, or bears, passed their album around to select friends, DJs and other bands to deconstruct the songs assembled on their last album.
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• • Maritime
  • Maritime is a collaborative effort between two old favorites of mine; The Promise Ring and The Dismemberment Plan.....
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• • Lifetime
  • Lifetime's music revolted against the metal-influenced hardcore of the day in favor of melody and emotion, all the while maintaining speed and aggression....
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• • His Name Is Alive
  • The age-old brain child of producer Warren Defever, notable for production efforts including Ida, Saturday Looks Good to Me and Grenadine. Defever's attention to detail and his crisp, distinctive production sound are dually noted on 'Detrola,' and the resulting sound is a culmination of widely varying influences..
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