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f there’s anything good about the Vegas heat and its ability to turn normally active citizens into air conditioning worshiping couch potatoes, it’s that it gives us the chance to catch up on some new music. And when that new music is as good as Vacation, the latest LP from Jeff Rosenstock’s New York musical collective Bomb the Music Industry!, summer is welcome to stay around all year. ...

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Alkaline Trio’s 2007 Occult Roots tour became sort of a gold standard for me. On that tour, they played their 1999 debut album Goddammit all the way through, gave frontmen Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano each a solo set, and played an additional set of songs voted on by their fans. ...

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