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The Downbeat 5, Smoke & Mirrors Live

The Downbeat 5
Smoke & Mirrors Live

When HARP stumbled into a showcase by the Downbeat 5 at the 2007 SXSW we had no clue that we were about to have our socks blown clean off. The Boston quartet very nearly upstaged headliners…

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Tift Merritt, Another Country

Tift Merritt
Another Country

The title of this album points to the fact that Tift Merritt was inspired to write its contents while she was living in France. But the album’s closing song en français (the beautiful “Mille…

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Gutter Twins, Saturnalia

Gutter Twins
Saturnalia

Greg Dulli is a hot dog, a fast-talking soul boy whose giddy literate lyricism made his dippy punkish Afghan Whigs the oddball toast of Sub Pop’s early-’90s label establishment. By the…

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