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There’s a joke about every Adicts show that longtime fans usually agree on, and it’s that it seems as though an Adicts show is typically many a punk’s first show experience. Despite the elitist sentiments that older punks have regarding how many times they’ve been to an Adicts show, an Adicts show brings together both youngster and veteran alike. By the end of the night, both sides become intermingled as they vie for beach balls and sing along to songs about who spilt whose beer and why no one’s crazy anymore.On Friday night, The Adicts played at House of Blues Anaheim with support from The World/Inferno Friendship Society and East Bay Ray & The Killer Smiles.

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Old Ideas is, in its own tender, smirking, Leonard Cohen-y way, a clever title. In one sense, the ideas here are ones we’ve heard from Cohen before: Life is a nostalgic, sorrowful experience punctuated by the occasional joke; language can clarify as much as it can obscure; and lust is one of the highest forms of prayer. In another sense, Cohen is telling us that the ideas on this album– home, healing, origins, and endings– are ideas that take on a starker, more metaphorical weight as time goes on. We can trust Cohen to know: Over the past

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“Good ol’ Freddie Mercury is the only guy that advises me,” Craig Finn sings on “No Future”, from his first solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes. Later in the same song, he calls out another 1970s rock icon: “The best advice I’ve ever gotten was from good ol’ Johnny Rotten,” he confesses, before launching into a few lines from “God Save the Queen”. As rock touchstones go, Queen and the Sex Pistols aren’t too far off the beaten path; he could have quoted Alex Chilton or Damo Suzuki or even Elvis Costello, but that would miss the point. Finn

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First Aid Kit is two sisters, Swedish, last name Söderberg. Klara is younger and shorter, the one with the dark bangs cut right across her heavy eyes, who sings with a crooked underbite that she could probably never set straight without wrecking the lovely specificity of her voice, the slight lisp of it, her languid vowels. Johanna, the older one, about whom everything is long (her limbs, her blondish mane), mostly sings harmony; her voice is darker and heavier and comes from somewhere different from her sister’s. Klara seems to coax hers out from just under her tongue,

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Sonic experimentalist and Sonic Youth/Wilco/Joanna Newsom collaborator Jim O’Rourke is next in line as a curator of an All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival. He’ll curate the second day of the I’ll Be Your Mirror festival at Studio Coast in Tokyo, which takes place April 14-15. (ATP themselves curate the first day.) He’ll also perform, with other artists to be announced later.

In other Jim O’Rourke news, he’s got a new release in the pipeline for his archival Old News series on Editions Mego. Old News 7 will be out on February 21 as a

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Friendly Fires have revealed that they will be starting work on their third album in a secluded log cabin in Sweden.

Speaking to 6Music, guitarist Edd Gibson said the trio were going to try and alienate themselves in order to come with ideas for the follow up to last year’s ‘Pala’.

He said:

I think we are trying to force on an element of the film The Shining, or the book The Shining, as a cultured gentleman who reads and doesn’t

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The Gaslight Anthem have started work on their fourth album.

The New Jersey band are recording the follow up to 2010′s ‘American Slang’ in Nashville. According to the band’s Twitter account, they started working at their Tennessee studio on January 20 and will begin recording the album today (January 23).

Last year singer Brian Fallon revealed that their new material was sounding “pretty aggressive”. He told Billboard he was “really happy” with the progress of the band’s 2011 demo sessions, commenting:

We’re making demos and our

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The Ting Tings second album ‘Sounds From Nowheresville’ has leaked online over a month ahead of its official release.

The follow up to 2008′s ‘We Started Nothing’ was supposed to be released on February 27, but now, according to fans on Twitter, the album is available to listen to online.

Jules de Martino of the duo has said: “We should be pissed outraged but what good would it do? Some selfish idiot who had the music early

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Courtesy of Disney

At last something to buy for the cartoon-obsessed goth in your life – the official Disney website is selling a T-shirt “inspired” by Joy Division.

The memorabilia takes as its inspiration the cover for the band’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ album. The image, that of a pulsar originally taken from the Cambridge Encyclopedia Of Astronomy, was chosen by the band with help from graphic designer Peter Saville.

Rather than distance themselves from the original inspiration, Disney’s promotional material for the product actively celebrates the connection, stating:

Inspired by the iconic

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