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The Closer: Les Savy Fav
Get ready, San Francisco. That annual extravaganza of musical zanyness, alt./indie hiptitude, and overall sub-mainstream coolness known as Noise Pop is only three short weeks away! As always, attending a festival with so many performances in so many different venues requires plenty of pre-planning, so it's not too early to save your pennies, mark your calendars, and begin mapping out your N-Pop strategy.
This year's festival looks
dead prezGenerally, when ASD receives a press release boasting about a show with "arguably the strongest lineup of socially-aware, hardcore hip-hop talent in recent memory," we just shrug it off as pure hyperbole (and yes, to paraphrase Harry Allen, we normally don't believe the hyperbole). But holy fucking guano, Batman! Guerilla Funk's Hard Truth Soldiers Tour --which lands at Mezzanine May 2 with all the force of an anti-pirate sniper shot--can actually make such a claim and come off as credi
Public Enemy No. 1...Employing language worthy of a fast-talking abogado, a release fired off Wednesday by the Mexican Tourism Board and Ministry of Tourism and sent to members of the American media by Mexican consulates notes that "No tourists currently in Mexico have been infected by the H1N1 Influenza Virus." That may be, but this is the kind of language game that results in folks inadvertently purchasing 12 cases of scotch when they sign their names to a cell phone contract. Perhaps no touri
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