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  Hear This A dad’s love for “Oh Sherrie” conjures up memories—and a few unanswered questions

  Hold on, hold on.

  June 17, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This Jimmy Eat World would like everyone to forget about “Reason 346”

  A song from the band’s disavowed first album hints at the future.

  June 14, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This “Carve Out Your Tongue” carves a dark path for Grave Babies

  Some medical advice from the grave.

  June 13, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This How “Dog Eat Dog” proves “Weird Al” Yankovic is a one-man Gateway To Geekery

  “Weird Al” introduced you to your favorite band before it was your favorite band.

  June 12, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Beck at his best, depressed

  "Guess I'm Doing Fine" is both mournful and elegant.

  June 11, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This Wilco and Calexico team up for a dynamite cover

  The two bands did “California Stars” in southern Ohio earlier this month.

  June 10, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Smith Westerns’ “Varsity” strikes a chord with the sad summer bastard in all of us

  Can a summer jam be the opposite of hot dogs and s’mores?

  June 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This “Chocolate” is the jam about guns and petticoats summer’s been waiting for

  Who knows what this song’s about? It’s catchy.

  June 6, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This Savages’ stormy “Husbands” is the track for a summer that doesn’t feel like summer

  A torrent of post-punk menace for a season that’s replacing bright and shiny with black and white.

  June 5, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Xenia Rubinos captures a summer breeze in a song

  Is it possible to sing along with a song when there aren't really any words?

  June 4, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This With “Unbelievers,” Vampire Weekend harnesses inner turmoil in a sunny package

  Summer’s a great time to talk about sinners, saints, and death.

  June 3, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This “All Your Friends Are Comedians” is a gloriously bombastic kiss-off

  Seattle band Juno deserved more laurels than it received during its eight-year run.

  May 31, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Boards Of Canada’s “Whitewater” captures the duo when its sound evoked wistful nostalgia

  As the band preps a return, a look back at an early example of creating rich emotions with mechanical sounds.

  May 30, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This Before shoegaze, there was this Love And Rockets dream-anthem

  A new box set provides a glimpse into Bauhaus minus Peter Murphy.

  May 29, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This King Tuff’s infectious, long out-of-print debut resurfaces

  “Freak When I’m Dead” is one of the all-time best songs about last rites.

  May 28, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This “Second Best” reflects a pivotal moment all serious bands face

  A song by a Chicago punk band casts a weary eye on its legacy.

  May 24, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This Pantera’s “Walk” is the cry of aggrieved, disaffected youth

  “Be yourself, by yourself / Stay away from me.”

  May 23, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This You don’t have to know the words to have fun with this Stone Temple Pilots single

  “Plush” makes for a marble-mouthed equivalent of Wayne’s World’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” scene.

  May 22, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This An early Walkmen song gets anti-nostalgic

  There’s then, there’s now, and they’re all pretty great in their own way.

  May 21, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This With “Deceptacon,” Le Tigre captured the sound of youth in a song

  Celebrate actual arrested development with a total jam.

  May 20, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Destroy This Place shows how press releases can get it right

  Fugazi + Japandroids = a way into a writer’s heart.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A song with a long title succinctly encapsulates ’90s power-pop

  Chicago’s Pet Symmetry is no stranger to the grand “whoa.”

  May 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This Connections gives a Guided By Voices-indebted reason to go for the opener

  The Ohio band makes its state proud.

  May 15, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Fuck the rich kid, fuck the rich kid, fuck the rich kid

  Gaunt doesn’t beat around the bush on I Can See Your Mom From Here.

  May 14, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This In the late ’70s, Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein got “Drunk And Crazy”

  The honky-tonk song is a late ’70s country classic.

  May 13, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This In “Atomic Kid,” Versus sounded an alarm that proved prescient

  The beloved indie-rock band offers a peacetime bum-out.

  May 10, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This An Iceage side project sings of the apocalypse

  Vår’s “The World Fell” is elegantly depressing.

  May 9, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Hear This An early Killing Joke song brings out the dead

  “Requiem” is an inhumanly cruel contraption of industrialized dread.

  May 8, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Hear This Neil Diamond made his name with “Solitary Man”

  Noah Kaminsky’s version of the song just wouldn’t have been the same.

  May 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Hear This A new Fleetwood Mac track finds the group as lively as ever

  “Sad Angel” is off the band’s new EP.

  May 6, 2013 | 1:00pm -