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57 min ago | Cinema Blend News

The Colbert Report To Resume After Death Of Stephen Colbert's Mother

Things have been amiss with Comedy Central's talk show programming lately. John Stewart is on a break from The Daily Show in order to direct Rosewater , putting John Oliver in the hot seat .

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Related Topix: The Colbert Report, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, The Daily Show, South Carolina, The Postal Service, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Much Ado About Nothing

2 hrs ago | The Hill

GOP chairs applaud shuttering of Capitol post offices

Two House chairmen applauded the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service for shuttering three post offices in the Capitol complex.

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Related Topix: The Postal Service, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa

7 hrs ago | The Pordland Mercury

Glasgow Born, Portland Made

WITH A FONDNESS for oldies radio and a knack for cut-to-the-quick lyrics, Camera Obscura ushered in a doo-wop revival on their 2001 debut, Biggest Bluest Hi Fi .

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Related Topix: Camera Obscura, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Pop/Rock, Life, Holidays, New Year's Day/Eve

8 hrs ago | San Diego CityBEAT

Band-branded cocktails

One of the highest honors a performer can receive is to have a menu item named after them, like the Woody Allen sandwich at Carnegie Deli in New York City or the Salma Hayek at Chicago's Hot Doug's.

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Related Topix: Metal, High on Fire, The Album Leaf

9 hrs ago | Spin

Watch Sigur Ros' Live 360-Degree Webcast Performance

Sigur Ros are celebrating the June 18 release of their seventh album, Kveikur , by performing a live, 360-degree interactive webcast from Dresden, Germany Wednesday .

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Related Topix: Sigur Ros, World News, Germany

11 hrs ago | Gretna Breeze

Cursive sets out on Midwest tour, hits Omaha Sunday

Omaha rock band Cursive will embark on a short tour with Digital Leather that begins today in Iowa City and continues through the Midwest, hitting Omaha on Sunday and finishing up the next day in Kansas City.

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Related Topix: Cursive, Omaha, NE

13 hrs ago | The Stranger

Underage

Street Eaters have been hastening the end of civilization for a few years now. The duo's nervy, chunky, and politically charged punk rock tells tales about the brutality and traumas of modern life, often sounding like a less artsy Death from Above 1979.

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Related Topix: Death from Above 1979, Port Townsend, WA

14 hrs ago | The Lantern

Album review: Guitar-less rockers Crash Kings go classic for 'Dark of the Daylight'

A guitar-less rocker seems like a complete oxymoron. Half of the definition of rock comes from the heavy presence of electric guitar, but Crash Kings has completely done away with guitar-and on purpose, too.

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Related Topix: Death from Above 1979

18 hrs ago | Ultimate-guitar.com

Kings of Leon, Vampire Weekend and Paramore to Play on iTunes Festival 2013 [News]

They've joined QOTSA , Thirty Seconds to Mars , Primal Scream and Phoenix announced earlier this month.

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Related Topix: Sigur Ros

22 hrs ago | Boise Weekly

The Cave Singers Come to Boise

As the folk revival rages on in the indie music scene, many bands continue to look backward, aping the sound and look of Dust Bowl Okies and all things Woody Guthrie.

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Related Topix: Boise, ID, Woody Guthrie, Folk, Pretty Girls Make Graves

22 hrs ago | Metro

Kings of Leon to headline iTunes Festival

Kings of Leon fans will get to soak up the US rockers' first new album in three years after the band confirmed today they will be a headline act at The iTunes Festival.

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Related Topix: Sigur Ros

23 hrs ago | Daily Kos

The Daily Show w/John Oliver/Colbert Report Rerun again 06.18.13

Also, @JimGaffigan is guest The #ColbertReport will be dark again tonight, airing a rerun with @fakedansavage .

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Related Topix: Far from the Tree, Books, Tufts University, Movies, Entertainment, The Postal Service

Tue Jun 18, 2013

Billboard

The Postal Service Washes Up in 'A Tattered Line of...

The Postal Service perform during Day 2 of the 2013 Coachella Music Festival on April 13, 2013 in Indio, California.

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City Pages

In defense of Low's a oeWaltz?a

Duluth experimental rockers Low gave one of the most polarizing performances ever to hit Rock the Garden this month.

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Related Topix: Low, Music, Entertainment

Broadway

Norbert Leo Butz Extends Girls, Girls, Girls at 54 Below Into July

Looks like Norbert Leo Butz will go girl-crazy at 54 Below well into the summer.

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Related Topix: The Girls, Norbert Leo Butz

WXPN-FM Philadelphia

The shrillest highs and lowest lows: After a decade, The Postal Service returns to Philly

"We're not really a band," Ben Gibbard said last night as The Postal Service stepped out onstage for its encore.

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Related Topix: The Postal Service, Jenny Lewis

The Des Moines Register

Unknown Mortal Orchestra takes lo-fi approach

After the release of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's 2011 self-titled debut, the band spent a lot of time on the road.

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Related Topix: The Mint Chicks

Ultimate-guitar.com

Sigur Ros: Kveikur [Reviews]

Released: Jun 12, 2013 Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze, Post-Metal Label: XL Recordings Number Of Tracks: 9 Musical experimentation within a band isn't necessarily a bad thing.

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Stereogum

Okkervil River - "It Was My Season" Lyric Video

Will Sheff, frontman for literate Texan indie band Okkervil River, has lately been busying himself with the DIY synthpop project Lovestreams , but his main band comes roaring back in a couple of months with a new album called The Silver Gymnasium .

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Undomondo

Feels Like Home #51: Holy Sons - "Bed of Nails...

An intimate Holy Sons performance of "Bed of Nails II" within the collectable confines of Emil Amos' home studio.

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