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The driver felt the leads tremble under their hands. The navigator clung resolutely to the sled, keeping an eye on the white horizon of the Wexford hills as they put some miles between themselves and the Monongahela. The only sound besides the rushing skids on the snow and the panting of the dogs was a faint crackle of song leaking from the driver’s earpiece. The heist had been a success; behind them, a net filled with silver Mylar balloons trailed and bobbed in the generated midnight wind.

The driver felt the leads tremble under their hands. The navigator clung resolutely to the sled, keeping an eye on the white horizon of the Wexford hills as they put some miles between themselves and the Monongahela. The only sound besides the rushing skids on the snow and the panting of the dogs was a faint crackle of song leaking from the driver’s earpiece. The heist had been a success; behind them, a net filled with silver Mylar balloons trailed and bobbed in the generated midnight wind.
Mike Krol
SongArtistNotes
Power Chords
Mike Krol
Truth in advertising
Some Birds
Jeff Tweedy
At his tweediest
Dazed And Chinese
Bongwater
Relentless
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Blacklight
The Ting Tings
In the zone
Black
Cat Power
Understated format
Secretarial
A.C. Newman
The triumph of a great hook
Pale Blue Eyes
Deer Tick
Because the Velvet Underground
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Motorboat
Redd Kross
Still scorching hot
Kundalini Express
Love And Rockets
All aboard!
Ten Feet Tall
Twang Bang
That's pretty tall
Away From Home
Klark Kent
I entertain my rancid date
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Dream
Delicate Steve
Channeling Zappa
Stand Up Tragedy
The Fratellis
Perfect for head-bobbin
Mucha Muchacha
Esquivel
Too much girl!
I Am A Rasta Man
The Slackers Featuring Chris Murray
Can't go wrong with this combination
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Death in Midsummer
Deerhunter
Olde tyme
Bone Machine
Pixies
Remains fresh
On The Corner
Heroic Doses
Intense instruments
NOMA
Galactic
Ratcheting up
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Singapore `66
The Mach Kung-Fu
Flash in Japan
The Day Bobby Fuller Died
The Transgressors
The shoe fits
Smile Into A Scowl
The Pilgrims
A real downer
Architects and Engineers
Guster
Prime form
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Swan
Dogbowl
Strange poetry, man
Shadow Of The Cross
Justus Proffit
Intersecting musical angles
Boom Boom
Trio
The formula, it works
You Go Bangin On
The Go
Skiffle and stomp
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Thee Elegant Bum
The Dandy Warhols
Somewhat menacing for an elegant bum
Spiked Flower
Swervedriver
It's a rumbling crush
Unnatural Interest in Excretory Functions
LMNOP
Lost Atlanta musical genius
Tomato Rose
Spesh
An ‘80s streak
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Etage
Mats / Morgan
The aesthetics of complication
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