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There’s something different yet oh-so-familiar about The Vines. They play unpolished proto-punk–the kind your daddy would have liked, probably, had he been a punk rocker, perhaps the kind The MC5 and some of their cohorts of the time would have churned out. There’s even a little bit of, dare I say, The Pistols themselves in there, a bit of the Clash–if you remember what loud, distorted guitar, a chugging, bottom-end bass, and just good old-fashioned Marshall amp feedback was like. It might be a welcome change from all the teenybopper pseudo-punk you hear nowadays, and is best appreciated LIVE–in this case, at the SXSW Festival, and available now on Red Bull Music Academy Radio.

4.50 (2 votes)

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Jack Paradise would like you to know that 2009 will birth the third coming of the “Summer of Love” and he personally would like to wish you “Happy Hunting”.

I can’t tell you with any certainty just what in the hell he his talking about at this moment, as I’m a tad busy getting my ass kicked at Connect-Four by Red Dog Consuela. Not to mention that it is bat shit loud in here and he could’ve said something else.  You see, I happen to be at a press junket with three quarters of Late of the Pier.

Late of the Pier – Space and the Woods

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4.75 (4 votes)

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