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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer Vol. 3 &#8211; Retrofit Records</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/12/20/get-to-know-your-local-independent-retailer-vol-3-retrofit-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Volume 3 of our groundbreaking featurette, we dug in with Sharod Bines and Bradley Ellison, the two Floridians who run Retrofit Records. These guys rule and apparently have the kind of taste that would fit right in at Matador HQ. I dig them because they say &#8220;motherfucker&#8221; a lot. That photo down the bottom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer Vol. 2 &#8211; Music Millenium</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we broke ground on our newest Matablog feature Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer with L.A. vinyl gurus Origami Vinyl. This week, we travel up the Pacific Coast to Portland for a chat with Terry Currier (pictured below, on the right), owner of Rose City institution Music Millennium. 1. Tell us briefly about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Indie Retailer Vol. 1 &#8211; Origami Vinyl</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back we posted a little piece about how &#8211; contrary to the general perception &#8211; there are plenty of independent record stores out there who are doing just fine. That post was met with such excited fervor that we&#8217;ve decided to go one step further and profile some of those stores who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indie Record Stores Closing &#8211; And Opening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at Matador HQ we couldn&#8217;t be more upset at the announcements of the closures of Ear X-Tacy and Slowtrain, and the uncertain ground that Criminal Records now sits on; however, what a lot of people don&#8217;t seem to realize (or at least recognize) is that there is a growing community of independent record stores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Dr.) Katrina &amp; The Gloom Wave :  Aussie Doc Says Depression = Metal Abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/10/26/dr-katrina-the-gloom-wave-aussie-doc-says-depression-metal-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(imagine courtesy Kil Slug&#8217;s Francis Larry Kelly Jr.) University Of Melbourne researcher Dr Katrina McFerran, no relation presumably, to one-time Matador Recording artist Bobby McFerrin, is &#8220;immersed in a new study that aims to find out why some young people use heavy metal music in a negative way.&#8221; The good Dr. would have you believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matador New Releases Page updated</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After updating the Complete Discography page, we discovered that the New Releases page hadn&#8217;t been updated since September 2010. Maintaining a website is a funny thing, especially if it&#8217;s packed with static templates created in May 2001, when browser windows were narrower and PHP was virtually unheard of. We often wish other labels maintained a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thurston Moore &#8211; A Stream Of &#8220;Circulation&#8221; Is A Mere &#8220;Like&#8221; Button Away</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/04/29/thurston-moore-a-stream-of-circulation-is-a-mere-like-button-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sonic Youth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we continue preparations for the May 24 release of Thurston Moore&#8217;s &#8216;Demolished Thoughts&#8217; (LP/CD/digital album), Thurston&#8217;s launched an official Facebook page. Visitors willing to take the most mild of virtual loyalty pledges (ie. selecting &#8220;Like&#8221;) are rewarded with a preview of &#8220;Circulation&#8221; from the Beck-produced &#8216;Demolished Thoughts&#8217;. In addition, there&#8217;s a new Thurston Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Ned Beatty Performance More Harrowing Than &#8220;Deliverance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/01/04/a-ned-beatty-performance-more-harrowing-than-deliverance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though I&#8217;ve already used this space to sing the praises of Zack Carlson &#38; Bryan Connolly&#8217;s &#8220;Destroy All Movies : The Complete Guide To Punks On Film&#8221;, our extended Xmas break provided me with additional opportunities to get stuck into this impressive reference manual.  There&#8217;s amazing factoids and brutal critiques on almost every page (the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thor Harris&#8217; 21-Point Plan For A Long &amp; Successful Musical Career</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/11/07/thor-harris-21-point-plan-for-a-long-successful-musical-career/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apologies if you&#8217;ve already seen the below screed at CNN.com, Hit Parader or Cat Fancy, but on the off chance you&#8217;ve not read &#8220;How To Tour In a Band or Whatever&#8221;, by Shearwater&#8217;s grandmaster percussionist Thor Harris, here&#8217;s another opportunity to do so. How to Tour in a Band or Whatever by Thor Harris 1-Don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carl Newman&#8217;s been moonlighting as a blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/05/11/carl-newmans-been-moonlighting-as-a-blogger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/05/11/carl-newmans-been-moonlighting-as-a-blogger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 19:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music videos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The New Pornographers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo poached from alterna2&#8216;s flickr stream Astute Matablog readers may have noticed that The New Pornographers released their much-celebrated new LP, &#8216;Together&#8217; last week while, at the same time, teaching Roger Waters a thing or two on late nite tv, gearing up for a huge tour and unveiled a kick-ass video&#8230; as if that wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoroughbred Racing&#8217;s (Temporary) Loss Is The Rock World&#8217;s Gain</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/05/04/thoroughbred-racings-temporary-loss-is-the-rock-worlds-gain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/05/04/thoroughbred-racings-temporary-loss-is-the-rock-worlds-gain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pavement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t make a habit of linking to each piece of media coverage our bands receive because much of it is press-release-regurgitation-city. Every now and then however, there&#8217;s something special that we just have to share, and when the Des Moines Register headlines an article, &#8220;Prairie Meadows race worker goes back to his life as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fucked Up&#8217;s Damian Abraham participating in &#8220;Keep Toronto Reading Festival&#8221; and &#8220;Do The Math&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/04/08/fucked-ups-damian-abraham-participating-in-keep-toronto-reading-festival-and-do-the-math/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2010/04/08/fucked-ups-damian-abraham-participating-in-keep-toronto-reading-festival-and-do-the-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fucked Up&#8216;s frontman, Pink Eyes/Damian Abraham is taking advantage of a brief break from tour to participate in two community-based events. Tonight (April 8), at the Toronto Reference Library, as part of Keep Toronto Reading Festival 2010: Book Exchange. Damian will speak on a panel with Pasha Malla author of The Withdrawal Method and Zoe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decade Can&#8217;t End Soon Enough (Unless You&#8217;re Having Fun) &#8211; Matador Artists, Staff And Associates Remember 2009 (Before It&#8217;s Done)</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/12/16/the-decade-cant-end-soon-enough-unless-youre-having-fun-matador-artists-staff-and-associates-remember-2009-before-its-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(sure, we&#8217;re allowed to have an annual holiday party, but who&#8217;s supposed to pay for the cleanup?) Once upon a time &#8212; when the bulk of our internet activity was longer than 140 characters &#8212; the Matador website feature periodic news updates (almost all of &#8216;em brutally late in arrival), along with an informal selection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do They Know It&#8217;s Record Store Day? (redux)</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/19/do-they-know-its-record-store-day-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/19/do-they-know-its-record-store-day-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may remember last year&#8217;s excursion to the outer reaches of Record Store Day, so this year I decided to give another outer-burrough a shot at Record Store Day. After stopping by Other Music and the Academy Annex , picking up some amazing limited edition records (and failing to find the new Fresh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RSD 2009 : God Save The Slightly Overweight Boney M Completists</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/18/rsd-2009-god-save-the-slightly-overweight-boney-m-completists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/18/rsd-2009-god-save-the-slightly-overweight-boney-m-completists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I attempted to explain &#8212; citing pivotal incidents from my own thrilling personal life &#8212; just how important records stores were in my formative years. Were it not for being asked &#8220;do you work here?&#8221; too frequently at a couple of &#8216;em, I could very well sign over my paycheck to [...]]]></description>
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