| 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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| FEATURE : JOSé GONZáLEZ |  |
José González: The Science of Music. Indie-folk singer-songwriter José González is able to pursue music full time these days. But that doesn't mean he's left the days of academia and biochemistry behind. "I pick up magazines once and a while. There are a lot of good lectures on the web from different universities on Google Video and YouTube, and also a lot of good documentaries from the BBC and PBS."
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| FEATURE : RUSSIAN FUTURISTS |  |
Dance, Jesus, Dance: Russian Futurists Find God (Sort Of). While searching for samples for the new Russian Futurists' album, hip hop LPs were frontman Matthew Hart's first source but he eventually found inspiration from a less popular genre. "I think it's pretty easy to take a song that is already a hit, sample it and make it a hit again. I try and take something that's really shitty and make it good," he explained. "I sampled a lot of religious music – Christian music. I have a huge crate of it."
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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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| INTERVIEW : JOHNATHAN RICE |  |
Singer-songwriter Johnathan Rice opens up about the recording of his newest album "Further North" and life on the road. "I like telling stories, in person and on stage. Not that being on stage isn't being personal, but you know what I mean. When I write, I very rarely have a specific intention or anything. It just comes the way that it comes and becomes something right before my eyes. I don't really force it. I just drink a lot of water."
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