From the artist: "From the album "Across The Tracks" released on Concord Records (2008)"

From the artist: "From the album "Can't Love, Can't Hurt" released on Epic Records (2008)"

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Veteran Canadian outfit Sloan are set to release their tenth studio full-length (discounting the Peppermint EP, including Recorded Live At A Sloan Party which was not recorded at a party, etc.) in 16 years. Prolific. That's what happens when you have four songwriters, though, and that's how they came upon the name for the new record: Parallel Play, as in that developmental psych term you learned while misdiagnosing yourself with every affliction in your Psych 101 book in high school. "I'm Not A Kid Anymore" comes from bassist/singer Chris Murphy, who explains the track's title like so:

I wanted to write a song about how we're old now and we think we have this pain in the ass job but in the scheme of things it's pretty awesome. We work 9 to 5 but it's the other 9 to 5 as in 9 pm to 5 am. It's really not that bad.

Yeah that's not a complaint to utter too loudly, Chris. (We know a good fifty some bands that would love trade places with you.) This song, on the other hand ... well, turn this shit up as loudly as possible. It's a gritty power popper with just the right the bit of Revolver-era harmonies to the bridge.

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Unless you were born with one of those silver spoons, you likely work a day job, sneaking time for your own business when not taking care of someone else's. You're not alone. Brandon Stosuy finds out how our favorite indie artists make ends meet...

Port O'Brien started three years ago as the duo (and couple) of Van Pierszalowski and Cambria Goodwin. The Bay Area band's currently a quintet, but the two remain at the group's core. It's a highly autobiographical project, connected to where they travel and how they opt to live while doing it. For instance, they have a song called "Fisherman's Son" and it's not just one of those indie-rock seafaring metaphors: Vocalist and guitarist Van Pierszalowski actually is the son of a commercial fisherman. He's a fisherman himself, too. As any number of tracks like "Stuck On A Boat" suggest, when Port O'Brien sing about heading to sea, there's lived experience affixed to the chorus.

Every summer Pierszalowski joins his father on Kodiak Island in Alaska to fish salmon. Goodwin, who sings and plays banjo, keyboard, and mandolin, goes north, too, as Head Baker at the Larsen Bay cannery. (This summer, bassist Caleb Nichols also worked at the cannery.) Like Bon Iver's love of the Wisconsin landscape and respect for the hunting tradition, these are the sorts of "jobs" you don't quit. After the discussions with Van (who details a few fishing accidents) and Cambria (who offers a recipe for cayenne cocoa cake), check out a couple Port O'Brien tracks. Listen closely for the echoes.

Aussie Modular people and BTW Class of '06 Van She have stopped the gap between LPs with a flood of remixes, all credited to their thinly veiled remixing alter-ego VanShe Technologic (including the best "1234" remix out there). Now the band's back with another round of synthed up, new romantic stuff of their own creation. Except apparently it'll be darker than last time, and director Lorin Askil got the memo. On the left: "Kelly." On the right: "Strangers."

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Fans of the old, don't feel abandoned: At least they still love the letter V. And also creating songs to dance to whilst remembering (or discovering) the '80s.