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Bedroom Creators

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This World Is A Warm Sunny Park

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Minimal Attitude

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NO FORMAT: 01/07/2006

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Fleeting

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Silence please

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Felt Tip Techno

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80 Hour Weeks

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Intelligent design

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Just For A Day (Shoegaze Part 5)

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From Seattle to New Zealand

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2 Boys + 2 Girls = Really Good Time

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Vacation

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Colouring Paper

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Unfamiliar (Shoegaze Part 4)

For the remainder of the shoegaze retrospective, I will only be linking people or references which...

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Review: Faunts - High Expectations/Low...

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NO FORMAT: 10/02/2005

NO FORMAT presents Sunday October 2nd MAN MAN(Philadelphia, Ace Fu)Honus Honus is the primary...

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NO FORMAT presents Thursday September 29th 2005 at the SILVER DOLLAR MY PROJECT: BLUEFrom...

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Eyes on the floor

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Space Ark

The chaotic dust cloud is coming. We must prepare the Space Ark and head to Andromeda. (Just...

Deprivation

When I first heard the new Strokes single, Juicebox (or Juice Box), I was skeptical. The blatant...

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One hundred

Thanks to everyone who has been reading this shit for the last - almost - year and a half. This is...

Interview: Final Fantasy

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Passive Vengeance

I live by myself — this allows me to do lots of fun stuff, like drink orange juice directly...

Interview: Jonathan Vance

Screw all this emo shit. Fuck you mainstream media jerk-offs for commercializing what was once cool,...

Punk Rock Electronics

—- Updates are slow due to the No Format show this week, sorting out our next show on the...

NO FORMAT: 09/07/05

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH 2005 NO FORMAT: TORONTO #3PUNK ROCK versus ELECTRONICS THE SOCIAL - 1100...

I see things

As a result of a rather hectic week, I am going to bed early, missing the Chromatics show, and...

Review: Broken Social Scene - S/T

When a friend asks for your opinion on something they’ve done, it’s always difficult....

Hack

Jaime says I need to stop arguing with people about music on message boards for fun. It’s a...

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