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Akron/Family

When The Dusk Calls Us Outside [video]

January 21, 2010

Akron/Family: “Crickets”
(live at a café and confectionery in Vienna, via They Shoot Music — Don’t They)

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Today’s Vegetable:
Fires In The Mountain, Fires In The Afternoon

January 19, 2010

SF’s Citay knows how and they don’t mind sharing. They’ve got that extry-Californy vibe that makes you kinda stare off into space and see yourself rambling along the coastal hills with your best friends while the sun refracts like the Star of Bethlehem.
Then they throw down the soaring twin-guitar leads and you say, “Oh [...]

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“They Take Two Hours and Compress It Into 45 Minutes — And We Take 45 minutes And Expand It Into Two Hours” [video]

September 10, 2009

Do you like nice people and good music? Then I wholeheartedly recommend this piece about a 2008 Akron/Family & Dodos show at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

And what’s plus more, I spent some seriously confounding time last weekend trying to figure out how to set up DirecTV’s video-on demand service, only to discover [...]

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Settle Down, Now [video]

August 26, 2009

Tomorrow night @ Rickshaw Stop. $10 tickets still available! See you there.
[via Casserole]

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Outside Lands For Cheapskates!

August 5, 2009

Hey, young world, remember how I might just maybe have been complaining about having to pay $90 to see a band I wanted to see that was playing Outside Lands? Me neither.
Because the producers of Outside Lands (Another Planet Entertainment) are throwing some night gigs with some of the better bands you’ll find buried deep [...]

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You And I And A Flame Make Three

April 21, 2009

HOOOLY CRUMB DEAR LOVINS
I got some good news and some bad news for ye … which do you want first, like you have a choice?
Weeell, the good news is that the gifts are falling from heaven like crazy these days and 2009 is shaping up to be pretty badass.
The latest slice of early love comes [...]

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Lonely Loco Taco Truck Of Mind Space ’Splosives

March 9, 2009

Some months ago I saw that the Hemlock was hosting a three-night residency by a band called Akron/Family. I had never heard their music, but Hemlock booker Tony B knows what he’s doing, so if someone’s residing there for a long weekend, I look into it.
I listened to Akron/Family’s 2007 album Love Is Simple and [...]

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