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		<title>Ceremony Play Amoeba San Francisco + New Tour Dates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire T</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo by Amy Muir Off of a sold out show this past Saturday at NYC&#8217;s Le Poisson Rouge, we&#8217;re happy to announce that Ceremony will be playing a free release date in-store at Amoeba San Francisco on Tuesday, March 6. This Amoeba in-store is part of the band&#8217;s West Coast week of release that includes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer Vol. 6 &#8211; Bull Moose</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bull Moose: A college drinking game where you&#8217;re only permitted to drink beer from the left hand. If caught drinking from the right hand and someone yells, &#8220;Bull Moose&#8221; you are required to finish what is left of your beer. OR Bull Moose: One of New England&#8217;s best record outlets and a wholly independent music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer Vol. 5 &#8211; Bull City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bull City &#8211; or Bull Cittay, as it&#8217;s sometimes known around here &#8211; is one of our favorite stores around. Owner Chaz Martenstein is everything awesome about independent record stores. His love of new music and his devotion to his local Durham scene are second to none and his store is far too awesome for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer Vol. 4 &#8211; End Of An Ear</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2012/01/03/get-to-know-your-local-independent-retailer-vol-4-end-of-an-ear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿Welcome back, pals. How was your Christmas? Get everything you wanted? Get that $7 check from grams? We know you&#8217;ve got that and some other Christmas money stashed away and you&#8217;re just wondering, &#8220;Where should I spend it?&#8221; Well if you&#8217;re reading this from the Austin area, here&#8217;s a hint: 1. Tell us briefly about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Girls Fans: Buy The Album, Get A Free Ticket</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes over here at Matador HQ we like to try wacky shit like making videos featuring famous funny guys or buying a single Soda Stream for 15 people to use and then wonder why it runs out of gas after a day and a half. But this time we&#8217;re doing something a little more simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get To Know Your Local Independent Retailer Vol. 3 &#8211; Retrofit Records</title>
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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>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/11/21/get-to-know-your-local-indie-retailer-vol-1-origami-vinyl/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/11/01/indie-record-stores-closing-and-opening/</link>
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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>Welcome Home Girls (or A Free, All Ages San Francisco Instore)</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/10/05/welcome-home-girls-or-a-free-all-ages-san-francisco-instore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to wrap up a big, long and assuredly exhausting national tour than to come home, hang out in one of the world&#8217;s best record stores and play a free show for all of your hometown friends and fans? Girls are doing exactly that at 2pm THIS SUNDAY, October 9 at Amoeba SF. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks at Grimey&#8217;s, Nashville</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire T</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo credit Fucking Nostalgic After taking NYC by storm this weekend, Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks continue their tour across this fine land. And to the good folks of Nashville, you&#8217;re in for a double-shot of Malkmus And The Jicks who play the Mercy Lounge on Tuesday, 10/4 AND will also be hanging out at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Dish&#8217;n With Girls (or free Chicago instore)</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/09/22/deep-dishn-with-girls-or-free-chicago-instore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey &#8216;Cago! You like pizza. You like Girls. You like the respite that your lunch break provides. Why not combine all three at your other favorite thing&#8230; A RECORD STORE! Next Thursday, September 29 Girls are playing a free, all ages, lunch hour instore at Reckless Records&#8217; Broadway store with those Chicago-style pizzas and drinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GIRLS ACROSS AMERICA &#8211; THE FIRST EVER NATIONWIDE INSTORE</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/09/13/girls-across-america-the-first-ever-nationwide-instore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash back a week to when we said that Girls were going to play a free, all ages concert this Friday at Grimey&#8217;s down in Nashville. Remember that? Good. Now, fasten your socks lest they be knocked off. To celebrate today&#8217;s release of the freshly BNM&#8217;d Father, Son, Holy Ghost &#8211; and pay homage to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls NYC Instore</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/09/08/girls-nyc-instore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when I told you that Girls were playing an instore in Nashville a few days after their new album comes out and you were all like, &#8220;Oh man, Mike. Jeez I wish they&#8217;d come up to the Big City and play a free, all ages instore for us Big City folk&#8221;? Well yea, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girls Free All Ages Nashville Instore</title>
		<link>http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2011/09/02/girls-free-all-ages-nashville-instore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday September 16 &#8211; mere three days after their sophomore effort Father, Son, Holy Ghost hits our shores &#8211; Girls will be in Nashville (or Smashville or Nashvegas, depending on what kind of tourist you are) to play a rock and roll concert at Music City mainstay Mercy Lounge. BUT a few hours prior [...]]]></description>
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