| FEATURE : LESS THAN JAKE |  |
Sleep It Off Not Just A Record Label For Less Than Jake. “God, I can’t ever talk serious, can I?” Less Than Jake's Chris Demakes says. “I think that all the other stuff that we have going on makes us concentrate harder on the band, in a weird way. If you have other things going on and you have a certain amount of time to do the band, you have to really focus all your energy. I think we all do a really good job of that.”
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| FEATURE : EARTH |  |
Earth Talk Telecasters, Cars & Sleep Aids. Earth's Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies discuss the band's look to where they're going and look back at where they've come. "Now it’s all about recordings…even though that’s changing now that the CD and everything is kind of going by the wayside. I’m hoping with the whole download thing that live music will start becoming more important again as the whole recording thing becomes less…You know, people aren’t buying CDs and stuff anymore, they’re downloading and going to see bands live. So I’m hoping that will change the dynamic a little bit."
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| FEATURE : BOYS LIKE GIRLS |  |
Boys Like Girls Reach Out To A Larger Audience. From Vans Warped Tour to touring with Avril Lavigne, Boys Like Girls' stock has steadily been rising. But that success comes at a price, explains guitarist Paul DiGiovanni. "I'll be trying to get on stage and my phone will be vibrating off the table. When I get off stage I'll sit down and wipe myself off and the phone is buzzing off the hook with 50 voice mail [messages]. For home shows, we're home for 10 hours and it's the most anxiety-ridden 10 hours ever."
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| FEATURE : CARIBOU |  |
Music is Caribou's Call of Nature. For Dan Snaith, it was either following family tradition with a life of math or forging ahead as electronic musician Caribou. Lucky for us he chose the latter. "Almost everybody in my family has a math degree or is a professor of some kind. Math was something I really enjoyed and that’s why I did it. It became a question of not having enough time to do it and not sleeping when I was trying to do both."
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| LABEL SPOTLIGHT |  | Bloodshot Records.Chicago's Bloodshot Records is known for a distinctly alternative take on country. But bringing music fans releases by Ryan Adams, Old 97's, and Neko Case is no easy task, just ask co-owner Nan Warshaw. "If you're wanting to get into the 'music biz' or if you're doing it to make money, I recommend you shoot yourself now -- it will be less painful."
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BLUES SHOUTERS & COUNTRY SCREAMERS
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Bobbie Gentry Bobbie Gentry's music, Adam Hill writes, "is so dirty and Southern you'd think Goodie Mob would sample her. It's classy like Sinatra, it's big like Elvis, it's so damn cool and weird and bitchy like few others."
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NOTHING BUT HITS
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Dwarves' US Tour Diary, Part 4 That's right! We've enlisted Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia as a writer to give us that, uh, point of view, shall we say?, that only he can provide. In the conclusion to the Dwarves' US tour, Blag reflects on the important things in life: his superiority to Death Cab For Cutie, former label SubPop and pretty much everyone else they meet while on tour.
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• Dwarves' US Tour Diary, Part 3
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• Dwarves' US Tour Diary, Part 1
• Dwarves' Tour Diary, Part 2
• Dwarves' Tour Diary, Part 1
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