“We get along really well, we don’t argue or get drunk and call each other bastards.”
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End of Irony
(Deathbomb Arc)
Since Mika Miko split and No Age started touring the world, LA’s The Smell scene has been searching for a new, less garage-y sound, and its found it in ravesploitation.
The Boxer
(Wichita/Polydor)
Champ
(Memphis Industries)
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Shepherd's Bush Empire , London
Liars have always been proponents of the idea of more – more bass, more fuzz, more weirdness.
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THE BEGINNING
Pop music: the most annoying, tenuously linked product pushed via the World Cup.
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