After the other day's big news, that Mike Mills and Peter Buck are in fact heterosexual, we figured the R.E.M. cycle would slow down awhile. Not so. As promised, the band's made Accelerate available for full-album streaming on iLike, which can be accessed via Facebook, iTunes plugin, and apparently even iPhone(?). Listen to it at ilike.com/R.E.M. The album is really good.
Posted at 1:15 PM
Tags: R.E.M.
Of all the bands at our SXSW party, Blitzen Trapper seemed most likely to collapse the Volume stage. Yes, more so than HEALTH -- there are more people, you see. The six Portlanders crowded onto the riser and proceeded to bounce and stomp with an overflow of energy you might not have immediately grasped from their recordings. (That, and an awesome drummer.) To see what we mean, take a look at this raucous take on "Wild Mountain Nation," the title track from Blitzen's third album.
Now compare it to this. The difference is more monumental when you see 'em in person. Also, since she was on location, we asked fellow PDX resident Carrie Brownstein if she'd interview the band after their set. The NPR blogger and ThunderAnt was kind enough to comply, speaking with frontman Eric Earley about proper tubing techniques, the Trail Blazers, karaoke, Eagles, skiing, the Kinks, hair color, tattoos, etc. All in under two minutes!
CONTINUE READING BLITZEN TRAPPER MEET CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, PLAY THE STEREOGUM PARTY...
Posted at 6:18 PM in Video
Tags: Blitzen Trapper | Carrie Brownstein | Sleater-Kinney | SXSW
In addition to shooting a ton of performances in Austin last week, we subjected many of our favorite acts to Texas music trivia. You saw part one. In this follow-up, we test the smarts of Islands, My Brightest Diamond, Peter Morén, The Cribs, YACHT, and others. Shea Hess lends a hand as our quizmaster, and everyone learns a lot thanks to her. Thanks again to our SXSW video team of Jon McMillan, Raphael Rodriguez, and Matt Neatock. Also, good job Rogue Wave!
CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM'S TEXAS MUSIC TRIVIA - ROUND 2...
Posted at 11:50 AM in Video
Tags: Born Ruffians | Colour Revolt | Islands | My Brightest Diamond | Pattern Is Movement | Peter Morén | Rogue Wave | SXSW | The Big Sleep | The Cribs | The Ringers | YACHT
Michael Stipe is no longer the most obviously but still unofficially gay person in the world music. And we're celebrating that out coming by alerting you to R.E.M.'s filmic collab with Vincent Moon in the back of a car, VMPRWKND style. This is Stipe & Co.'s second video with Moon, but unlike the first (which was all over the LES), this one's proper Take Away style, live and one take, with just a few routine deviations: Jacknife does the sound, and when they're done they decide to "go straight to [Stipe's] house." Guess that's the benefit of filming in Athens. When we asked Fluxblog to prematurely Accelerate, he said of "Living Well":
Basically, this is the band coming out swinging, with a tight, fast rocker that quickly establishes the aggressive, defiant tone of the album.
This version may be acoustic with steering wheel percussion, but it's still fast enough to fog up the windows. It's yours for free download at iTunes.
Posted at 6:44 PM in Video
Tags: R.E.M. | Vincent Moon
It's something everyone seemed to already know -- i.e., note the, ok, maybe less-than-tender comments from this thread last week -- but post-SXSW, and on the eve of Accelerate's 4/1 release date, Stipe has finally made those longtime rumors official in SPIN...
[Photo by Brian Brooks Via IndieWire]
CONTINUE READING MICHAEL STIPE NO LONGER TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET...
Posted at 9:39 AM
Tags: Michael Stipe | R.E.M.
This is it everybody, the last photo post of SXSW '08. That means it's time for our superlatives, so welcome to our list of the SXSW 2008 Top Five. These are the bands who delivered sets we could not stop talking about, to friends, to strangers on planes, to people in line for cabs. These are bands that have special places in the Stereogum Hall Of Fame. They are...
Awesomely, we've already flashed some footage from three of those sets ... and we've got video for the top two on its way this week. Even more awesomely, Fuck Buttons and HEALTH did their damage in the same place on the same day, for the most Stereogummy day of our party at Volume, joining forces with High Places, Blitzen Trapper, No Age, and Kevin Barnes for what was an absolute dream multi-band bill. The only way to come down from it was with a quiet and lovely church set from M. Ward and Jim James, who collaborated, duetted, and generally charmed the congregation into steady and deep adoration. A nice exeunt to a crazy week.
Meanwhile, Abbey was messing with Texas on Saturday at the Mess With Texas party. We'll update with those pics shortly -- for now, here's what first row view at the Breeders set there looked like:
To help pass the time while you wait for Ms. Braden's Texas messing, we're rounding this post out with her pics from the day prior's IHEARTCOMIX show (Santogold, Diplo, Cut Copy, Black Ghosts, Flosstradamus) and some of what went down at that intregenrerational Stubbs show (Sia and Cribs, in particular).
Before we send you off into pictorial bliss, though, we have a lot of folks that need to hear how much we love them. Thanks go to Paste for all their hard work on our party, thanks to Volume for hosting it, and thanks to all of the artists, readers, and friends that came by to make the event such a success. We had an amazing time meeting and speaking and drinking with all of you. We can't wait to do it all over again.
As is festival tradition, we extend our gratitude to Abbey Braden for helping us capture the sights of South By, and also to Kyle Dean Reinford for his supplemental, remote photo processing.
We hope you guys enjoyed the video stuff this year. On that front, we couldn't have asked for a better, crazier, or more talented crew than we had in Matt Neatock and Raph Rodriguez. Also big thanks go to Shea Hess for saving our ugly mugs from being on camera too much.
Now, the photos.
CONTINUE READING SXSW: SATURDAY IN PHOTOS...
Posted at 8:35 PM in Concert
Tags: Atlas Sound | Black Ghosts | Blitzen Trapper | Cut Copy | Diplo | Flosstradamus | Fuck Buttons | HEALTH | Jim James | Kevin Barnes | M. Ward | My Morning Jacket | No Age | of Montreal | Santogold | Sia | SXSW | The Breeders | The Cribs
Between all the video we're posting and every other site's A/V archives, this year's trip to Austin's easily and obviously the most archived South By yet. As mentioned, we'll have the rest of our video clips throughout this week, but if you're looking for straight audio, NPR's SXSW '08 page is a must hit: They have full sets from most of the Stereogum/Paste Friday show at Volume (Kaki King, the Weakerthans, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, and madness via Liam Finn and the Whigs) alongside new-album-preview shows from My Morning Jacket and R.E.M. You've seen/heard some of MMJ's Evil Urges already. After talking with people that already have it this past week, we're expecting Jim's Urges to be a polarizing, ambitious affair. Start your homework at NPR.
Posted at 3:55 PM in Concert
Tags: Bon Iver | Liam Finn | My Morning Jacket | R.E.M. | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | SXSW | The Weakerthans | The Whigs
Indie rock has collectively returned from its annual pilgrimage to Austin which, lucky for your eyes, means seeing the letters S, X, and W a whole lot less. But as you may have noticed over the past few days, we did have a video crew with us (thanks Jon, Matt & Raph!), and we did document a lot of great music. (Wait until you see the Fuck Buttons and HEALTH footage, gah.) So although this week's back to business as usual, we are pulling the best clips of the week's best sets to help everybody ease back into computers-and-headphones mode. Here we've got Kaki King's "Pull Me Out Alive," a tune last seen spread over the course of 5,000 still photos, this time captured at 2PM on a Friday and still killing.
Next it's the fat backbeat/Kaki fret-slapping hands on "Bone Chaos In The Castle"...
CONTINUE READING SXSW: KAKI KING PERFORMS AT PASTE/STEREOGUM PARTY...
Posted at 11:38 AM in Video
Tags: Kaki King | SXSW
Interested in filling a rock club to the rafters? Simple: Just have Nada Surf and Destroyer play back to back sometime. People were stuffed asses to elbows at Volume night club for the first day of the Stereogum/PASTE party, although the free libations helped ease the heat. Nada did it unplugged-style, Destroyer most definitely did not -- and both destroyed. Peter Morén rounded out the day with the more blissful moments of the prematurely approved The Last Tycoon (how good is "My Match"?), with the help of some local Austin musicians on strings.
Later in the night was Islands, which is looking like top contender for best set of South by Southwest. More on that in a few.
The best reason to skip dinner yesterday was the Lou Reed tribute at the FADER Fort at dusk: this was the only place in Austin you were gonna see Yo La Tengo, MMJ, Mark Kozelek, Joseph Arthur, and Dr. Dog cover Lou Reed songs, with Lou Reed in attendance. Not only that, though -- the man himself graced the stage, at one point duetting with a newly resurgent Moby (his DJ sets have been the talk of the town this year). We'll have some video of the Moby-fied "Walk On The Wildside" later. Huge thanks to Abbey Braden for photographing the FADER festivities. Her pics and ours this way..
CONTINUE READING SXSW: THURSDAY IN PHOTOS...
Posted at 2:13 PM in Concert
Tags: Destroyer | Dr. Dog | Ezra Furman | Islands | Joseph Arthur | Lou Reed | Lykke Li | Mark Kozelek | Moby | Nada Surf | Oh No Oh My | Peter Morén | SXSW | Thurston Moore | Yo La Tengo
As far as we can tell, there are two must-see parties today. Not to be too shameless, but one of them is ours. We're not just saying that -- we've been waiting for this for months now. This afternoon Fuck Buttons, High Places, Blitzen Trapper, No Age, HEALTH, and DJ List Christee (aka Kevin Barnes) head to Volume for the Stereogum/PASTE party. There's still free SoCo, free nachos, and free sunshine. If you wanted a little comedy along with your top-notch indie rock, the other day party worth a mention is the jam-packed Mess With Texas event at Waterloo Park. Along with Human Giant, Demetri Martin, Leo Allen, Todd Barry, Eugene Mirman, et and cetera, they have the Breeders, Fucked Up (who played an illegal set on a bridge with No Age at 2AM last night), Simian Mobile Disco, Black Mountain, Islands, Jay Reatard, Pissed jeans (we saw 'em last night, great as always), Yeasayer, White Denim, and too many more. Here's a more comprehensive list, splayed out with some MP3 accompaniment.
CONTINUE READING SXSW: SATURDAY PARTY PICKS...
Posted at 12:31 PM in MP3
Tags: Blitzen Trapper | Fuck Buttons | HEALTH | High Places | Kevin Barnes | No Age | of Montreal | SXSW
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. This week, Brandon Stosuy revisits some of our favorite day job Q&As with bands playing SXSW...
Since 2003, Blitzen Trapper self-released their first three albums, including Wild Mountain Nation, which caught on in '07, led to bigger exposure, resulting in a contract with Sub Pop. The sextet's currently on tour with labelmates Fleet Foxes -- dates include shows with Menomena, Beach House, Papercuts, Mahjongg, Dr. Dog, Rogue Wave, Man Man, etc. They play our party today. You can get the complete schedule here. Or, flash back to the day jobs they're currently missing...
CONTINUE READING QUIT YOUR DAY JOB - SXSW EDITION: BLITZEN TRAPPER...
Posted at 11:42 AM in MP3, Quit Your Day Job
Tags: Blitzen Trapper
We saw a lot yesterday, but more on that later. (For now: Islands, you rule.) Shaking off the cobwebs and the Shiners, we're getting ready to head back outside, so here are suggestions for what to catch today. Of course, there's the second part of our three-day party (the Whigs, Liam Finn, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Kaki King, the Weakerthans, Lightspeed Champion), which still includes free SoCo ... and nachos to help absorb the SoCo. Also, NPR's broadcasting today's installment live online, so cheer loudly and have your NPR debut. There's obviously more going on than what we're doing (the "x" in SXSW stands for "excess"), so we put together a carefully curated list for you below. It includes a bunch of Hot Freaks (literally, figuratively), Pitchfork's packed party, the early-evening metal of Enslaved and 1349, and two out of three of the festival's "fuck" bands.
CONTINUE READING SXSW: FRIDAY PARTY PICKS...
Posted at 12:32 PM in MP3
Tags: Kaki King | Liam Finn | Lightspeed Champion | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | SXSW | The Weakerthans | The Whigs
While we were in NYC resting our legs for the upcoming Texan good times, thousands of music lovers went south for Langerado on the Big Cypress Indian Reservation. Looks like it was a hot, sweaty fun time down there. It also looked a lot like the mid-'90s (Arrested Development!). Which is a good look for unabashed nostaligists like ourselves. For instance ... you might have read a little about that Blind Melon reunion. Now you can watch a little about it. "No Rain"...
From that distance the guy could pass for Shannon @ Woodstock, give or take a ponytail or two. More from ten years ago: Michael Stipe offers up "Electrolite" but makes sure to let you know he's "glad the fuck it's the 21st century."
CONTINUE READING AT LANGERADO, PARTY LIKE IT'S 1995...
Posted at 6:19 PM in Video
Tags: Beastie Boys | Blind Melon | Langerado | R.E.M.
Like the Polyphonic Spree before her, STD awareness crusader/six-string master Kaki King strings together thousands of still photographs to form a beautiful music video. (In the Spree's case it was 70,000 while Kaki's working with around 5K, but then DeLaughter's act has like 23 times more members.) The choppy effect, combined with colorful light ribbons ("'light animators' flashing LEDs and flashlights on and off over a long (8 second) shot exposure," photo geeks) works well with "Pull Me Out Alive"'s dreamy, surging pop fare. More for the photo tech nerds: They used a Nikon D30, which makes it official: We are definitely not getting the most out of our D50. Keep your lens peeled for a Quin sister cameo.
CONTINUE READING NEW KAKI KING VIDEO - "PULL ME OUT ALIVE"...
Posted at 5:05 PM in Tour Dates, Video
Tags: Kaki King | Tegan And Sara
According to Silicon Alley Insider, the Athenians are premiering Accelerate on iLike beginning 3/24. The album doesn't hit the racks until 4/1, so this is a pretty big coup for iLike. Remember, Michael and the boys premiered Around The Sun on MySpace back when it only had 4 million users. Then the site went on to invent Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen! R.E.M. are social-networking tastemakers.
Posted at 1:07 PM
Tags: R.E.M.
The idea of a Pavement reunion's in the air, but Stephen Malkmus & his Jicks are everywhere else, including a Take-Away in San Francisco and a secret show in Portland. The Take-Away includes a trio of Real Emotional Trash tunes, "Hopscotch Willie," "Wicked Wanda," and a pretty, elegiac "We Can't Help You." Those are all fine showings, Malkmus looking every bit the part the slacker legend he is, but for a fun taste of behind-the-scenery, it's fun watching the whole band trying to figure out which R.E.M. songs they all know, so they can sing along in unison. We get "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville," "7 Chinese Brothers," and others with bells and guitar and shakers in a SF art gallery.
CONTINUE READING STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS DO R.E.M. IN SAN FRANCISCO, SECRET SHOW IN PORTLAND...
Posted at 10:04 AM in Video
Tags: R.E.M. | Stephen Malkmus
So, we're pretty excited.
Three days, great bands, free drinks all day, new club on 6th St. (right next door to Emo's). There go all your excuses not to be there. More info? This way...
CONTINUE READING STEREOGUM & PASTE PRESENT THE DELL LOUNGE @ SXSW 2008...
Posted at 6:36 PM
Tags: Blitzen Trapper | Colour Revolt | Delta Spirit | Destroyer | Fuck Buttons | HEALTH | High Places | Kaki King | Liam Finn | Lightspeed Champion | My Brightest Diamond | Nada Surf | No Age | of Montreal | Peter Bjorn And John | Peter Morén | Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin | SXSW | The Weakerthans | The Whigs | Tim Fite
Sure, yes, and fine, having R.E.M., the Cure, the Flaming Lips' U.F.O. show, M.I.A., Modest Mouse, the National, the Breeders, Built To Spill, et al puts this year's installment of the earthy Pacific Northwest festival Sasquatch! amongst the lineups to beat this summer, but in case you didn't notice from that list of headliners there is no Jack Johnson. This makes it our favorite lineup so far because: 1) clearly they're taking the high road by resisting the lure of whatever dollars they could tie up via Jack's great, unwashed, dirty white hatted surfer masses; 2) this preserves the hack-free integrity of the camping grounds; and 3) honestly we were running out of Jack Johnson jokes. (Just kidding, we're just saving up those good vibes for APW and Coachella and Bonnaroo.) Anyway, this is a Memorial Day weekend lineup worth camping for:
CONTINUE READING THE CURE, R.E.M. LINE UP FOR SASQUATCH! 2008...
Posted at 4:42 PM
Tags: M.I.A. | R.E.M. | Sasquatch | The Breeders | The Cure | The Flaming Lips
Friday night we made the trek out to Union Hall in Brooklyn to help our friends at Gothamist celebrate five fine years of broadcasting NYC news into our RSS readers. Congrats, -ists. Of course, it wasn't just the birthday cake that lured us; with an ill bill featuring Pattern Is Movement, DJ Craig Wedren, and the mighty Forms, where else would we be? PIM seemed to convert more to the cause that is their phenomenal new album, Wedren spun tunes in one of his last NYC engagements before moving out to LA to work on the new David Wain movie, and the Forms played a typically great Icarus/Forms spanning set to a tightly packed room. Alongside the originals, the band launched into their sludgy, beat-flipping cover of Nirvana's "All Apologies" (after a little Shudder To banter and Hillary Clinton tears-of-a-croc tease), here:
Heavy shit, shifty groove -- which is the Forms M.O., as we learned on Drive XV. The "All Apologies" take is always great, but what do we have to do get you guys to play "Ignoreland"? R.E.M. doesn't even play it at shows, you'd have the monopoly on "Ignoreland" live renditions. Think about it, that's all we ask.
Posted at 3:22 PM in Concert, Video
Tags: Craig Wedren | Nirvana | Pattern Is Movement | The Forms
All set to Accelerate, R.E.M.'s been raising their profile downtown of late with that infamous trip to an LES sex shop and subsequent video. Mr. Stipe's latest public outing is decidedly less kinky and possibly more funny: Michael stopped in to read some lines at Shoot The Messenger, the weekly comedy show from the mind of Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead. Show staffer Carol had herself a moment with Michael onstage. Via Drink At Work:
[M]y brief time on stage last night was shared with Michael Stipe. I'm not someone who particularly cares about famous people, but since he was basically my teenage/twenty-something hero it was kind of otherwordly. We chatted a bit in the dressing room with Lizz before the show and I found him to be incredibly nice, funny and slightly introverted in an affable way. For the show, he just did a walk-on and I got to be the person who ran on stage and took him off.Working with Vincent Moon, touring with Modest Mouse and the National, stints at comedy clubs -- supernatural, superindie. We'll try and update with info on the jokes told. For now, check the pic:
[Photo by withreservation.com]
Posted at 12:22 PM
Tags: R.E.M.
The Vincent Moon-directed video for Accelerate's first single fits with the filmic, low-tech look of the Vincent Moon-directed promo materials that've come before it. We see the R.E.M. boys standing around pensively, going through the rigors of recording, hopping into cars, walking the streets (guitars in hands sometimes, suspiciously Take-Away style), and eventually gathering together for in-stores and more than a few chuckles. Observe, the fruits of their sex-shopped day on the LES, and stick around for the meta ending:
Michael looks so happy! He must've read the premature evaluation, where Matt noted the song's "another in Michael Stipe's ongoing series of pep-talk tunes." Cool, dude, just skip the part where he also says "lyrically, it's basically a rewritten version of 'Imitation Of Life.'" OK, deal.
Check out supernaturalsuperserious.com for Mr. Moon's behind-the-scenes mosaic.
Accelerate is out 4/1 on Warner.
Posted at 4:19 PM in Video
Tags: R.E.M.
Although we usually give our knee jerk reactions to anticipated releases every Friday, there was no waiting 'til the end of the week to share first impressions of this one -- particularly when we have a friend so highly qualified to offer insight. Help us welcome Drive XV essayist/Pop Songs 08 proprietor/R.E.M. master Matthew Perpetua as he evaluates the latest from our favorite Athenians...
Back when I interviewed R.E.M.'s Mike Mills for the Drive XV project, he mentioned that one of the objectives the band had going into their fourteenth studio album was to write shorter songs. Well, they succeeded: Half of the tracks on Accelerate clock in at under three minutes, and a quarter of them are just barely over the two minute mark. In total, Accelerate zooms on by in 34 minutes, making it the shortest full-length in the band's discography, and nearly half the length of Around The Sun, Up, and New Adventures In Hi-Fi. Despite a few folky dirges on the second half, the cumulative effect of Accelerate is a bit like a roller coaster ride -- you wait forever to get on it (it's been four years since Around The Sun!), it's a total rush in the moment, and when it's over, it leaves you wanting to go back and do it again.
CONTINUE READING PREMATURE EVALUATION: R.E.M. - ACCELERATE...
Posted at 6:30 PM in Premature Evaluation
Tags: R.E.M.
At this point, we're pretty sure you're aware that Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe are getting closer to the release of their 14th studio album, produced by Jackknife Lee. What you might not have heard, though, is a full track from Accelerate, so take a listen to the summer camp-volunteering, teenage-angsty "Supernatural Superserious." It's super good. Or at least super decent. (Via P4K)
The humiliation of your teenage station. Stipe knows. You can also hear bits of "Supernatural Superserious" in the band's just-released promotional video clip, too. Only this time with flickering footage...
CONTINUE READING NEW R.E.M. - "SUPERNATURAL SUPERSERIOUS" AND ACCELERATE PROMO VIDEO...
Posted at 11:04 AM in Video
Tags: R.E.M.
Sure it was charming when Lykke sang "I'm Good, I'm Gone" in a bathroom. But get your mind out of the toilet and observe: the sweet Swedishness of this clip simply cannot be touched. Here's Ms. Li with special guests Robyn, Adam & Bebban (Shout Out Louds), Daniel (The Concretes), Lars (Laakso) and Mikael (Hjalmar). It's directed by Ted Malmros + Christian Haag.
Awesome.
Posted at 4:49 PM in Video
Tags: Hjalmar | Laakso | Lykke Li | Robyn | Shout Out Louds | The Concretes
Well shit how's that for a post title. Let's just take it in order:
We poked our heads into the wine shop on the LES that R.E.M. invaded while filming their "Supernatural Superserious" with La Blogothèque field general Vincent Moon; here, R.E.M. HQ gets a quote on the shoot from the La Blog. Take it away, M. Moon:
This was a really, really interesting, fantastic experience working with the band in New York; I'm really happy with the result and I'm almost finished with the editing, though there is still, it seems, a crazy amount of work yet to be done.You're welcome, Vincent. As mentioned too many times to count now, Accelerate is out 4/1 (album art awaits you after the jump). The big news, though, is that R.E.M. is hitting the road with the National and Modest Mouse, which casts new light on their choice of working with Vincent Moon; now there's no doubt, R.E.M.'s trying to make their reintroduction to the world as indie-credible as possible. It's been awhile since the band's had the hipster vote; this is certainly one way to get their attention. No matter what you think of the strategy, though, you have to admit that a National/Modest Mouse/R.E.M. show at a place like the Mann Theater in Philadelphia is simply unmissable. If it wasn't so close in time to Bonnaroo, we'd be driving down (and on that note, the tour sched is making it look like none of these bands will be down in Tennessee for the party this year).I didn't want to create a fake takeaway show with the band lip-synching and playing acoustically--that's not my style as you know--but I did focus on the improvisational aspect of the Takeaway Shows, hoping to achieve that same spontaneous feeling, by driving around the City, searching for the right place and mood without planning at all. I regarded it as a quest. We essentially were on a quest, a search to find the right place to play the music, and we settled on five or so places on Rivington Street. 2 or 3 were purely spontaneous, instances in which we just walked in and just said, "can we play"; again, it's not my style to plan so the video, hopefully will have this improvisational feel; the video will capture and concentrate on this feeling. It's focused on the performance of three guys going around NYC playing music spontaneously without being self-conscious.
As I said, I'm very happy with it. Thanks.
Album art and dates after the jump.
CONTINUE READING CAMP R.E.M. TALK "SUPERNATURAL SUPERSERIOUS," UNVEIL ACCELERATE ALBUM ART, TOUR WITH THE NATIONAL & MODEST MOUSE...
Posted at 4:39 PM in Album Art, Tour Dates
Tags: Modest Mouse | R.E.M. | The National
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