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"\u201CWe wrote this music for the uncynical ear,\u201D Thad Cockrell says. \u201CAnd not, like, music geeks. Just people.\u201D It shows, too. Cockrell and his band, LEAGUES, write the sort of music you loved back before everything got all weepy and earnest. It\u2019s the music you still love, if you\u2019re brave enough to admit it. The sort of music that makes you roll down the windows and drive over the speed limit. It\u2019s rock \u2018n\u2019 roll that actually rolls.\r\n\r\nCockrell found a muse in John Steinbeck, who (accurately) predicted his novel, East of Eden, would not be a critical success and chose not to care. It\u2019s the same attitude LEAGUES carried into the studio. \u201CI was just thinking, what do we need to hear?\u201D Cockrell says of the recording. \u201CI need something that lifts me, man. I need to go have a great time, and we need songs that we can sing to each other and at each other. That connects us.\u201D\r\n \r\nThat\u2019s what LEAGUES\u2019 songs do\u2014hook heavy, sing-a-long anthems that send you to a place where friends are plenty and life\u2019s a party. It\u2019s a change of pace from Cockrell\u2019s solo career, fueled by folksy ballads, but if he\u2019s worried fans won\u2019t follow him into his new phase, he\u2019s not showing it. \u201COnce they adjust to it, they\u2019ll like the old stuff,\u201D he says. \u201CBut they\u2019ll actually like the new stuff better.\u201D\r\n\r\nLEAGUES\r\n\r\nYou Belong Here\r\n\r\nFOR FANS OF\r\n\r\nDeath Cab for Cutie, Anchor and Braille, Jimmy Eat World\r\n\r\nONLINE\r\n\r\nwww.leaguesmusic.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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