| FEATURE : LESS THAN JAKE |  |
Sleep It Off Not Just A Record Label For Less Than Jake. “God, I can’t ever talk serious, can I?” Less Than Jake's Chris Demakes says. “I think that all the other stuff that we have going on makes us concentrate harder on the band, in a weird way. If you have other things going on and you have a certain amount of time to do the band, you have to really focus all your energy. I think we all do a really good job of that.”
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| FEATURE : EARTH |  |
Earth Talk Telecasters, Cars & Sleep Aids. Earth's Dylan Carlson and Adrienne Davies discuss the band's look to where they're going and look back at where they've come. "Now it’s all about recordings…even though that’s changing now that the CD and everything is kind of going by the wayside. I’m hoping with the whole download thing that live music will start becoming more important again as the whole recording thing becomes less…You know, people aren’t buying CDs and stuff anymore, they’re downloading and going to see bands live. So I’m hoping that will change the dynamic a little bit."
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| FEATURE : BOYS LIKE GIRLS |  |
Boys Like Girls Reach Out To A Larger Audience. From Vans Warped Tour to touring with Avril Lavigne, Boys Like Girls' stock has steadily been rising. But that success comes at a price, explains guitarist Paul DiGiovanni. "I'll be trying to get on stage and my phone will be vibrating off the table. When I get off stage I'll sit down and wipe myself off and the phone is buzzing off the hook with 50 voice mail [messages]. For home shows, we're home for 10 hours and it's the most anxiety-ridden 10 hours ever."
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| FEATURE : CARIBOU |  |
Music is Caribou's Call of Nature. For Dan Snaith, it was either following family tradition with a life of math or forging ahead as electronic musician Caribou. Lucky for us he chose the latter. "Almost everybody in my family has a math degree or is a professor of some kind. Math was something I really enjoyed and that’s why I did it. It became a question of not having enough time to do it and not sleeping when I was trying to do both."
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| INTERVIEW : VETIVER'S ANDY CABIC |  |
Singer-songwriter Vetiver's Andy Cabic discusses the band's album of covers, "Thing Of The Past," the band's upcoming album and his favorite underrated bands. "I think the temptation to 'get it right' is there no matter whether you wrote the song or someone else did. If anything, I think recording songs someone else has already recorded offers you some kind of road map as to how your version might proceed, in sympathy with or diversion from the original."
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| LABEL SPOTLIGHT |  | Equal Vision.From a start in the early '90s releasing Krishna hardcore bands, Equal
Vision Records is now known for their hardcore, indie and screamo bands.
The label's Director of Publicity Francesca Caldara gives us the inside
information on how they do it and how working in the music industry can
make you hate music.
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| INTERVIEW : THE DUKE SPIRITS' LIELA MOSS |  |
The Duke Spirit's Liela Moss talks about the band's new album, recording with Chris Goss and her desire to see her lyrics come to life. "There is a lyric on the album that goes 'now I have a tongue tattoo.' I'd like to see pictures of anyone that's actually done that. Does anyone have a tongue tat?"
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| INTERVIEW : THE SWITCHES' MATT BISHOP |  |
Singer-songwriter The Switches' Matt Bishop takes some time out of touring with The Bravery to answer some questions for PlugInMusic.com. In the third person, Bishop talks about hanging with The Vines, his song stockpile and touring the US. "US fans are so much more exited than British fans. Louder screams,
sexier and prettier."
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