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• DC Show Update by Baby, You Got a Stew Goin'!

  "Newly-announced shows are updated in italicsSlow week this week... at least in terms of shows I'd like to see. Happy to see that Justice picked a DC venue smaller than 18,000 people. Not that I'm a fan, but still... what the hell were they thinking?9:30 ClubFri., 2/1: Olivia and the..."

• Top 30 Albums of 2007 by linesthroughlines

  "Notables on the cutting room floor (#31-50, in random order): Mae - Singularity, Lovedrug - Everything Starts Where it Ends, Feist - The Reminder, The New Pornographers - Challengers, Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War, Say Anything - In Defense of the Genre, Menomena - Friend and Foe,..."

• THE AFTERNOONS by a PLAGUE of ANGELS

  "THE AFTERNOONS are from Cardiff, Wales and traffic in indie power-pop. I'd thought that their album ROCKET SUMMER was a 2007 release, but it turns out that it's been around since '05. It was new to me, in any case.The title track evokes BIG STAR and down-tempo FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE,..."