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"  Total Punk Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, and the Clash have inspired Ted Leo and the Pharmacists&amp;#039; hyper and hyperliterate punk-pop, and we don&amp;#039;t know where Leo gets the energy to keep cranking out one fiercely played record after another. On The Brutalist Bricks, he&amp;#039;s as wound up as ever, but the songs have a looser, mussed-up feel, and they offer an exuberant resistance to\u2014and celebration of\u2014the world as he knows it.  Bringing the Noise Patrick Stickles, lead singer and songwriter of Titus Andronicus, has been compared to Bright Eyes&amp;#039; Conor Oberst, and while there&amp;#039;s a similarity in their frayed-edge tenors, Stickles may be the angrier, spazzier young man. On The Monitor, his band shifts away from shoe-gazing and calls down masses of ragged, tumultuous guitar. If it&amp;#039;s possible for a nervous breakdown to sound confident and exhilarating, they&amp;#039;ve approximated it.  Harmonic Convergence Ghosts of the Carter and Andrews sisters hover over the Living Sisters, a girl-group side project from Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond. Eleni Mandell and Inara George round out the trio, which fuses folk, indie pop, and country into a sound that looks back but feels current\u2014long calico dresses, not beehives, being the key accessories here. On Love to Live, the songs are sweet and the harmonies quietly stunning. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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