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Mar 30, 2023Liked by S.W. Lauden

Thanks for the shout out (Poprock Record) and this great list!

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I love Poprock Record! I have discovered a lot of great music there. Thanks!

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Mar 31, 2023Liked by S.W. Lauden

I don't gave a bloggy platform anymore. Just @areallulu on TikTok but everyone should be listening to The Happy Fits and Phoneboy. Two indie rock bands that are putting out great music and equally great live shows.

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Thanks! I will investigate.

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Mar 31, 2023Liked by S.W. Lauden

My favorite happy fits album is their second one but all three are really good Ana Phoneboy sounds like anew Wave Happy Fits and both are great in concert. They are both produced by Ayad Al Adamhy from Passion Pit and he makes everything sound amazing.

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Allen, I can’t believe I stumbled across this comment thread and found you here after just finding you over on TikTok the other day! How coincidental is that?!

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That New Pornographers track has really grown on me over the last several days! Also: Eyelids are fantastic.

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Same for me on the New Pornos track…and I totally agree about Eyelids!

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Apr 3, 2023Liked by S.W. Lauden

Yeah - I'll ditto to both. I've been fairly ho-hum on the last couple NP albums but this song (and hopefully the whole album -- I still need to listen to it), but the new song gave me the old happy chills I used to get from their first few albums. I'm curious to hear the new Baseball Project album too.

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This was a really cool idea. Some songs and artists I knew and some I didn't, which is why you do something like this, yeah?

I would recommend checking out either "Unicorn" or "The Ground Beneath Me Shifted" (or both!) off of the new Bottlecap Mountain album, O! Fantastik Melancholy.

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Apr 3, 2023Liked by S.W. Lauden

Thanks for providing this smorgasbord of tasty treats. Most I've never heard of. Dazy was one of my most played albums of 2022 and the bonus tunes he just released are just as good. I realized my age this past weekend when I went to see Tony Molina in concert and the place was packed and then became a mosh pit. Those days are way behind me. Had to retreat to the exit. At least I have the albums and can watch him perform on YouTube!:)

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Ha! I know the feeling. I tend to stand in the back by the sound booth, arms folded. ;)

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