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I’ve been racking up a lot of new music and I’ve been doing an otherwise terrible job at sharing it with you all. So here’s some great tunes to kick start your Wednesday morning. I checked out The Republic Tigers last night at the Towne Lounge.  You never know how you feel once you get out of work and if staying up late is worth it.  I didn’t stay for the whole set, but what I did see I was impressed with.

I do sorta dig The Republic Tigers breed of sensitive electronic rock. It’s not quite progish, not even close, but that’s the descriptor that comes to mind. Like it’s an Americanized late-period Britpop.  The Tigers write tight upbeat pop songs, with dark and moody underpinnings.

Photo by: Jalapeno at Philly’s North Star Bar

One day I will get my camera back up and working.  So on to the new music.  MORE »

Cold War Kids, one of the more recent bads to feel the warm embrace of the internet and then get the abrupt kick to the curb for their 2006 album Robbers & Cowards, have a new album coming out on September 23 on Downtown/V2.

The band uploaded a video and from the one song it sounds as if they will at least have one killer song on the album.  Though we’re inclined to say based on our love for Robbers & Cowards that these guys should deliver the goods.  That’s one hell of an album.