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A FORM OF PAYING ATTENTION MARCH 2010

Happy March, y’all! I am so glad to be done with February. It seems like such a bogus month what with its handful of days. I like a month with all 31 days. A month that knows it could stop at 30, but spits in the face of slowing down. Also, when there are lots of days in a month we can release more records more of the time. For instance, March 2 we release Fight Softly by "The Ruby…

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Tue, March 2, 2010, 11:44 AM | 22 CommentsComment TWEETtweet | SHAREtweet

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The west coast premiere of Heaven, Low's collaboration with choreographer Morgan Thorson is happening April 1-4 in Seattle!

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Our very close, personal friends in the, let’s be honest, breathtaking band Low have collaborated with the choreographer Morgan Thorson on a dance/music performance called Heaven, which will be presented at On the Boards here in Seattle April 1-4. You can find out more and buy tickets here and the full details are covered below in the press release from the folks at On the Boards. This thing sounds incredibly cool and we’d all be silly to miss it.

Plus! Both…

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Free Ltd. Ed. CDR with all Dum Dum Girls Pre-orders

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If you pre-order I Will Be by March 30th, you’ll receive a reissued CDR of her out-of-print Zoo Music EP, featuring 5 early Dum Dum Girls tracks. You’ll also get Dum Dum Girls stickers and probably some other stickers too. OH! I almost forgot—if you pre-order the record right this moment, you can also listen to it—RIGHT THIS MOMENT—via a link to a full album stream. So those three reasons, plus the 11 amazing reasons on the record (the songs…

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Obits on "Indie"

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Sohrab from Obits has been chatting, on the wall of the Obits’ Facebook page, with this 16 year-old kid about Sub Pop being 49% owned by Warner, what “indie” means, etc. And, though that summary sounds incredibly tired, it’s a pretty good conversation. Here it goes:

BJM:
Obits, what do you think about the fact that Sub Pop is 49% owned by Warner?

Obits:
Wow. Is this part of a Seger-Saget-Sub Pop conspiracy?
It’s a complicated question. Short answer is we signed…

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SP840 - Released: March 30, 2010 6225

I Will Be is the debut full-length by the Dum Dum Girls. Produced by Dee Dee and Richard Gottehrer (Strangeloves, Voidoids, Blondie, The Go-Gos and, more recently, The Raveonettes), ??I…

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SP850 - Released: March 16, 2010 6219

Happy Birthday is Kyle Thomas (aka King Tuff), Chris Weisman, and Ruth Garbus. They formed in November 2008 to play one show at the punk-space “Tinderbox”(RIP), in their hometown Brattleboro…

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SP861 - Released: March 16, 2010 6305

“The Fiery Tears of St. Laurent” b/w “Bon Bon” by/from/courtesy of King Khan and Pat Meteor!

“The Fiery Tears of St. Laurent” is King Khan and Pat Meteor’s tribute to French…

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SP863 - Released: March 2, 2010 6232

The prime mover of The Ruby Suns, Ryan McPhun has literally traveled around the world to arrive at Fight Softly, the band’s 2nd album for Sub Pop, and 3rd overall…

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    GETTY CENTER, LOS ANGELES
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    Sunday, March 21, 2010
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    Sunday, March 21, 2010
    Double Wide Bar (TX), Dallas
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    Sunday, March 21, 2010
    Amoeba Music (LA), Hollywood
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    Sunday, March 21, 2010
    Johnny Brenda's, Philadelphia
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    Monday, March 22, 2010
    Deaf Institute, Manchester
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    Monday, March 22, 2010
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    Monday, March 22, 2010
    Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta
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    Monday, March 22, 2010
    Mink, Houston
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    Monday, March 22, 2010
    Bowery Ballroom, The, New York City

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