by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

With all these lists coming out, here’s one more: Pitchfork today announced its Top 50 of 2012. The list is relevant (I guess) because Pitchfork continues to be the more revered music criticism website in the country for indie music, whether you like it or not. No. 1 went to Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city (Interscope) of which I’ve heard nary a track, more damning evidence of just how out of touch I am with today’s music. No. 2 was Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange, which I have listened to a few times, though it didn’t make my list (which you’ll have to wait until next week to read). No. 3 was Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel…, which I reconsidered (and relistened to) after the very public death of her dog, and must say it was better the second time around.

I was surprised at the number of artists on the list who were making follow-ups to breakthroughs, such as Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors and Beach House. We continue to regurgitate ourselves. As a whole, it’s not a bad list, but it’s hard to argue against the fact that this was another (in a series) off year(s) in music…

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The STNNNG are back with a new album, Empire Inward, slated for February. Check out the first track, “Brain-Dumb,” below. They just got back from playing the UK’s All Tomorrows Parties (curated by Shellac). Something tells me we’ll be seeing them on an Omaha stage soon…

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The Hear Nebraska T

Hear Nebraska is hocking new T-shirts for 2012/13. Do yourself a flavor and order one right here. Your $25 not only gets you a colorful fashion statement but also helps support Nebraska music’s No. 1 mouthpiece. And HN major domo Andy Norman says if you get your order in today, you should get it delivered by Christmas. Good luck.

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The other day Desaparecidos announced that it’s headed to Europe in February as part of a tour that will focus mainly on the Eastern Seaboard of these United States of America, ending with a couple dates at Webster Hall in NYC (one of which already sold out). How long will this Desa stretch continue, or is this going to do it? We’ll just have to wait and see…

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Speaking of Conor Oberst, his concert at Joslyn’s Witherspoon Hall is officially sold out. Opening band Whispertown hits the stage at 8 p.m. followed by the boy wonder himself playing a collection of tunes that will likely stretch back to the early Bright Eyes years.

Don’t have tix? Well, you’re not completely out of luck. There’ still plenty of tickets available to tonight’s Ladyfinger show at  Slowdown Jr. with Everyday/Everynight and Maps for Travelers (Back When, who had been scheduled to perform, have cancelled due to illness). $8, 9 p.m.

That brings us to Saturday, when Kite Pilot is slated to play at fabulous (and recently repainted) O’Leaver’s with Gordon (acoustic set) and Video Ranger. $5, 9:30 p.m.

Finally, the most bizarre event of the weekend is the Musico reunion show The Barley Street with Cat Island. Musico was a three-piece power-pop band from around the turn of the century that included among its members Darren Keen of The Show Is the Rainbow and Touch People fame, Brad Underwood and Mark Hinrichs. Expect crazy. $5, 9 p.m.

Have a good weekend…

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

The folks at Press Here Publicity began distributing a new She & Him video for “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” to the usual outlets yesterday. Ironic, considering how Zooey Deschanel’s version in the 2003 mega holiday hit Elf made an entire country fall in love with her for the very first time. Almost a decade later and we’re still haunted by Deschanel and her shitty TV shitcom like a painful, lingering sore. What better way to wipe whatever residue of appreciation from our collective memory than by revisiting the song with She & Him partner Matt Ward to sell downloads of their flaccid holiday album? But I’m tipping the voting scale here. You tell me which version is better.

She & Him, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from the film Elf

No contest.

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Mmmm….

They’re calling for seven inches tonight and blizzard conditions. Good thing I have my rum. That’s right. Remember that Sailor Jerry event with Digital Leather and King Khan a month ago? Well, out of the kindness of their golden-colored hearts, the fine folks at SJ (and Dana Dynamite PR) sent me a care package via FedEx, which I only picked up yesterday because FedEx insists on signatures because it’s afraid of intoxicating minors. Anyway, inside were two giant bottles of golden-colored SJ rum and a thank you note — one of the best “thank you’s” the staff at Lazy-i

has ever received from a vendor (Are you listening Rolling Rock, you cheap fucks?). So as the snow piles up outside, I’ll be making Hot Apple Jerrys and writing my Year In Review column and wondering why I live in Omaha in the wintertime. Cheers…

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

I’m back. And it only took three days. Don’t get what I got.

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Not much happening musicwise. The PR folks behind Statistics (Denver Dalley of Desaparecidos) are letting it be known today that you can download the first Stats track, “Nineteen Ninety-Nine,” right here. It’s free. Get it.

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Pitchfork just posted its top-100 tracks of the year. Grimes’ “Oblivion” was No. 1. Meh. They sure like Frank Ocean.

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There is actually

a show going on tonight. They’re calling it “The Last Hootenanny.” I’m not sure if it’s a side-joke about the Mayan calendar or they’re really ending the series, which has been going on around town for years. Regardless, it’s happening tonight at The Waiting Room and features the usual collection of Benson-centered alt-country/Americana/folkies, with one very bold exception. Listed in the line-up is the one and only Solid Goldberg, a.k.a. Dave Goldberg’s one-man rock freakout which must be experienced to be believed. It’s not just a performance, it’s also fan-frickin’-tastic songs by one of Omaha’s most iconic musicians. Your $7 cover supports “the Nebraska Farmers Union and the Nebraska Agriculture Council in their efforts to start up a small food hub so you can buy more local, sustainable, humanely raised meat” (because “Humanely Raised Meat Just Tastes Better”®

). The show starts super-early at 5:30 p.m., and the partial lineup of acts is here on the One Percent website.

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

Where the frick is Lazy-i today? Well, I spent the last 10 hours with a substance that resembles fluorescent-yellow pudding dribbling out my ass (and flying out my mouth). Needless to say, I won’t be attending tonight’s Faint concert, but if I did, my mere presence could put a lot of you down (and a few of you in the hospital). Nasty shit, but I’m on the mend. The fever’s broke, so to speak. But it puts a damper in my social calendar. Going tonight just ain’t worth it, especially since I just saw Omaha’s most entertaining band a few months ago at The Slowdown. I was going to go tonight because, really, isn’t every Faint concert a frickin’ blast? And Icky Blossoms is opening, Omaha’s next generation of twisted dance party madness. Also on tonight’s bill is the creepy-but-fun band Trust. For those of you without tickee-s, too bad. This one will smoke. It starts at Sokol Auditorium at 8, but, unfortunately, without me.

Also going on — and starting in just a few hours — is the 3rd Annual Omahype Holiday Rock-n-Shop event at The Slowdown. We’re talking performances by AYGAMG, Noah’s Ark, Laura from the Mynabirds, Thunder Party, Eli Mardock and stand-up comedy all for $5. On top of that, there will fantastic local vendors set up around the club selling you their very cool hand-made wares just in time for the holiday. Stop down before The Faint show, it starts at 7. Find out more here. And have fun…in my absence (damn).

If that wasn’t enough, The (freakin’) Yuppies are playing at The Barley Street tonight with Lincoln porn-core act Plack Blague (must be seen to be believed) and Astral Menace. $5, 9 p.m.

While over at the new, improved (but-still-the-same) Fabulous O’Leaver’s it’s Bear Stories with arntwealldead and The Debt. $5, 9:30 p.m. Check out the fresh new paint and the expanded booze selection and have a Rolling Rock for me.

Tomorrow night it’s back to O’Leaver’s for The Whipkey Three and Chromafrost with Korey Anderson. $5, 9:30 p.m.

Over at The Brothers Lounge Saturday night Killer Blow takes the stage with Millions of Boys and traveling band, Seattle’s The Pharmacy. This one will indeed kick ass. $5, 9 p.m.

And I think that’s it for the weekend. If I’m missing something, toss it into the “comments” section. As for me, I’m going back to bed. Maybe I’ll see you Saturday night, but I suggest you keep your distance (like you always do anyway).

Have a good weekend…

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by TIm McMahan, Lazy-i.com

Mick about to take flight.

I didn’t watch every moment of the 12-12-12 concert last night, but I did catch Rolling Stones, The Who, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys and Paul McCartney. For my money, Billy Joel won the “best remaining voice” competition among the codger squad. The Stones sounded every bit of 70 years old, Roger Daltrey can’t hit the high notes any more and McCartney was, well, better than I thought he’d be. It was a real sausage party. Strange that there was only, what, one woman vocalist all night? Shades of 2011 Maha Festival. As a whole, the production was a few steps below Jerry Lewis Telethon quality, with way too many technical glitches and quick cuts to people in headsets angrily shouting at someone off camera. But hey, that’s live television (or webvision) for ya.

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There’s a lot of “truth” and “growing up” going on with Ladyfinger’s next album, Errant Forms, slated for release Feb. 5, 2013, on Saddle Creek Records, and no track underscores that more than “Galactic,” the auto-biographical epic that explains once and for all the mysterious behavior of frontman Chris Machmuller. The gritty, brutal rock song tells the story of a man who picks up signals in his head — numbers and images — obviously a distress signal about an alien coup, and I’m not talking about an uprising at the Arizona state capitol. It all comes down to this line: “I’m a space invader and I think I can save this planet from galactic destroyers from space.” Unclear if Machmuller is saying he, himself, is an alien or some sort of “super soldier” tasked with leading a mission to destroy an alien onslaught. I’ve listened to this song on repeat at least 100 times in the past 24 hours and I’m still not sure. Maybe I’m not supposed to “be sure.” What I can say is that “Galactic” is one of the most important songs ever released by Saddle Creek Records (and one of my favorites). Watch the skies, people. PS: I can’t wait to see the video. Attention: Ridley Scott.

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Look’s like Statistics, the project by Denver Dalley (of Desaparecidos fame and Har Mar Superstar sideman) has signed to Afternoon Records. The label will be releasing the next Stats full length, Peninsula, in March. More info here. Check out Stats’ first AR single, below:

Statistics, “Rewind, Replay, Repeat”

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BTW, that For Against box set I mentioned on Tuesday slated for release in January? Well its release has been pushed back until May or June of 2013. And I’m also told to not hold my breath waiting for a For Against reunion. One can dare to dream…

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This week’s column is pt. 1 in a series about the joys and frustrations of remodeling a house. You can read it in this week’s issue of The Reader or online right here.

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No shows again tonight, which sucks because I have tomorrow off.

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

You know it’s the holiday season when the music calendars for the week boast non-music events like pub quizzes, wine tastings and screenings of lame ’70s Christmas cartoons. Well, let’s just hope the holidays are the reason for this intense slowdown in shows. I have no room to complain as I missed both nights of fantastic shows this past weekend. I blame general holiday fatigue for my absence, and maybe that’s why the clubs are keeping the listings light — they know that people are pooped this time of year. Or maybe not… Anyway, the only show in Omaha tonight is a Christian-core act at TWR and it’s looking pretty light until Friday night’s sold-out Faint show at Sokol Aud…

The For Against box set.

What else is going on? Well, Captured Tracks announced that it’s reissuing the first three full lengths from seminal Lincoln post-punk trio For Against. Originally released by Independent Project between ’84 and ’90, these releases will see their first vinyl appearance in more than 20 years as part of a deluxe edition limited boxed set. The set features a bonus booklet and ephemera from the band’s early career. It won’t be available until January, according to the Capture Tracks website. As part of this release, will we see an onstage reunion of Harry Dingman III (last seen playing as part of The Millions reunion) with Jeff Runnings?  The last time I saw these guys play as For Against was way back in 2008.

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Boston University’s Daily Free Press has a review of last Thursday night’s Conor Oberst gig in Boston that’s a hint of what we’re going to get at his Dec. 21 show at Joslyn’s Witherspoon Hall with Whispertown. Sounds like ol’ Conor is playing an acoustic “best of Bright Eyes” set with some other morsels thrown in. Read the review here. Tix, by the way, are still available for $25 right here.

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

A quick follow-up on yesterday’s “Best of” lists, The Reader‘s “Next 15 of ’12” went online yesterday afternoon, here.

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Rollingstone.com posted a couple early tracks from two upcoming Saddle Creek Records releases.

The jolly guys in Ladyfinger take a load off.

“Dark Horse” is the first sounds off Ladyfinger’s upcoming album, Errant Forms, out on the Creek Feb. 5. You can download the track fer free right now right here. The album was produced by that crazy mofo who produced their last record, Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Minus the Bear, Isis), at ARC Studios, with mixing at Bayles’ Red Room in Seattle. Says frontman Chris Machmuller at the ‘stone website: “Simply put, Dark Horse is about growing up: A departure from selfishness and moral ambiguity. Despite the overwhelming urge to escape, the convivial main character, upon reflection, realizes he wants to stay with his pregnant girlfriend. Two months after I finished writing the song I found out my wife was pregnant with our first child.” What a coincidence, Mach.

Also at Rolling Stone, right here, is “Open Sign,” the first song off UUVVWWZ’s next Saddle Creek release, The Trusted Language

, also out Feb. 5. Get it.

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BFF

Benson’s First Friday (BFF) event is going on tonight, which means art and music to be seen and heard all along Maple Street. One red hot show that’s part of this event is at Sweatshop Gallery 2727 No. 67th St. (just south of The Barley Street Tavern) where Digital Leather headlines with Killer Blow and the debut of Pleasure Adapter, a brand new band featuring some familiar faces: Jeff Ankenbauer (ex Shanks, Saudi Arabia) on bass/vocals; Annie Dilocker (ex-Digital Leather) on keys; Ben Allen (Watching the Train Wreck) on guitar and newcomer Joey DeRosa. An arm wrestling tourney will be going on between bands. Should be a real David Lynch-ian moment. Admission is free and so is the beer with a $5 donation. Facebook says start time is 8, but the bands tell me that they won’t get rolling until 9. Take your chances.

Also part of BFF, Rock Paper Dynamite headlines at The Sydney with HERS and Goon Saloon. $5, 10 p.m.

Meanwhile, down at The Slowdown, it’s the return of Of Montreal. I can tell you first-hand that if the show is anything like their last one a year ago last May, it’ll be well worth the $20 ticket price. Opening is the disco stylings of Brooklyn’s French Horn Rebellion. Show starts at 9.

On Saturday, Lincoln heroes Domestica return to Slowdown Jr. with The Sons of The Slowdown. $7, 9 p.m.

Also Saturday, Envy Corps returns to The Waiting Room with Field Club. $7, 9 p.m.

Meanwhile, down at The Barley Street Tavern Saturday night, Dirty Fluorescents plays along with Robo Dojo and Earlytown. $5, 9:30 p.m.

Have a damn fine weekend.

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by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

Here it is, the annual Reader and Lazy-i Top 20 (and next 10) bands from Nebraska (that’s an easy way of saying that both Omaha and Lincoln bands were considered when developing the list). So other than location, what else was considered?

That’s been a matter of contention for as long as we’ve been putting together this local version of a Village Voice-like Pazz and Jop where the writers and critics of the local scene get together and hammer out a list of the “most important bands in the area.” Are these the best bands? Are they the most popular bands? Are they the most successful bands? No, no and no. They’re not even our favorite bands. Throughout the back-and-forth that went into making the list, bands that have made the biggest impact from our scene are given preference. That means they’ve likely recorded and released something in the past year, have gone on tour or have created a substantial, undeniable buzz locally and/or nationally.

So like every year, the writers got together, brought their list, and then hashed out each nominee. Some bands and musicians make the list; some don’t. It don’t mean nuthin’, folks, it’s just a list.

Usually I post The Reader

‘s list first, then my own. I’m doing it backwards this year and posting mine first because, well, this is lazy-i.com. So here are my picks, in no particular order:

Lazy-i Top 20 of 2012

Desaparecidos
The Faint
Cursive
Mynabirds
Icky Blossoms
Digital Leather
Whipkey Three
Azure Ray
Simon Joyner
McCarthy Trenching
Tilly and the Wall
Baby Tears
Darren Keen
UUVVWWZ
Eli Mardock
Conduits
So-So Sailors
Capgun Coup
Domestica
Universe Contest

And the next 10 (also in no particular order)

Dim Light
Millions of Boys
InDreama
Yuppies
Worried Mothers
Solid Goldberg
Brad Hoshaw
John Klemmensen
Under Water Dream Machine
Peace of Shit
Snake Island

And here’s The Reader‘s list:

The Reader Top 20 of 2012

Tilly and the Wall

Whipkey Three

Icky Blossoms

Mynabirds

Conduits

Kris Lager Band

Desaparecidos

The Faint

Cursive

Digital Leather

Magic Slim

All Young Girls Are Machine Guns

Simon Joyner

McCarthy Trenching

Capgun Coup

So-So Sailors

Matt Cox Band

Millions of Boys

Baby Tears

Azure Ray

Check out the full write-up here at The Reader, including band descriptions and other info. I’m told they’ll be posting their “next 10” online sometime today, probably linked to this story.

Now let the discussion begin.

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Tonight at Film Streams, Dan McCarthy provides the music performing live to Buster Keaton’s silent classic Sherlock Jr

. The film starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $12 General; $10 Students, Seniors, Teachers, Military, Bike-Friendly; $8 Film Streams Members. More info here.

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O’Leaver’s is under new management, and they’re a bunch of martyrs.

by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

Remember way back in October when I said two bits of red hot news fell into my lap? One bit was that Red Sky Festival was dead (ho-hum); the other I said you’d have to wait for. Well now the news can be told (though just about everyone who follows local music already knows it).

The guys in Cursive bought — and are now the proprietors of  — O’Leaver’s, Omaha’s garage rock ground zero and home to the functionally inebriated. Last Saturday night, the George Washington of O’Leaver’s — Chris Mello — handed over the keys to Tim Kasher, Matt Maginn and Ted Stevens, along with the fourth partner in the venture, Chris Machmuller, who I think is actually a permanent fixture of the club like the album-sleeve-covered walls and the smell.

The full story about the handover is in my column in this week’s issue of The Reader

 and includes an interview with Cursive bass player and paint fetcher Matt Maginn. Matt talks about why they bought the club and what they plan to do with it. It’s online here. Go read it now and we’ll discuss. Go on, we’re waiting….

Done? OK. The central news from a music perspective is that O’Leaver’s will continue to book bands at the same pace it did before — just enough to keep music fans coming but not too much as to alienate the smelly drunks who JUST WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE.

A few musicians have snickered at the news, worried that the new management will ruin their playpen and will no longer allow their bands to play there. Poppycock. That’s the last thing they’d ever do, though Maginn said Stevens might try to help book a wider variety of bands, which has been sorely needed. For the past year there’s been a revolving door of about six bands that play O’Leaver’s regularly. At the very least, Maginn said they’d like to extend an invitation to bands they meet on the road to come and play at the club the next time their tour crosses the Nebraska landscape.

I doubt anything will change at O’Leaver’s except perhaps the smell. Here are a few other things that didn’t make it into the column: The new crew plans on putting a functional tiki bar in the back room where the Foosball table and punching bag machine (soon to leave) are now located. It’ll be a place where people can hang out if they want to escape the music. I’ve seen the new bar — its uber cool.

I also forgot to mention that the volleyball facilities were part of the deal. It’s a well-kept secret that all three Cursive guys are former collegiate sand volleyball stars with the tan lines to prove it. I suspect we’ll be seeing all three in Speedos and sunblock come next summer.

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Fantastic show tonight at Slowdown Jr. — Domino Records artist Night Moves headlines a show with Lincoln band The Renfields and Omaha surf rock kids Adult Films. $7, 9 p.m.

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Tomorrow: The Reader AND The Lazy-i Top 20 (and Next 10) of 2012. Don’t miss it.

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The Millions at The Bourbon Theatre, 12/1/12.

by Tim McMahan, Lazy-i.com

It felt like a reunion whether they want to call it one or not. The Millions (or The Millions NE as the lawyers would prefer) took the stage at The Bourbon Theatre Saturday night to a crowd that one person estimated exceeded 400.

The revamped movie house (formerly The State Theater) was filled to the brim with people crowded into the stadium risers and crushed in the aisles and on the floor. The audience looked the part of a crowd that came to see a band whose heyday was over a decade ago — more gray hair than hipster swoops, more pant suits and dresses than colored tights and blue jeans. You could have mistaken it for a wedding reception except the audience looked like it actually wanted to be there (unlike most receptions I’ve attended), and were downright bubbly despite the fact that their local football team was being pounded into oblivion on the flat-panels above the bar.

The band strolled on stage without fanfare at around a quarter to 10 and jumped right into their set as if they just walked off a stage in 1995, albeit older and wiser but with no less enthusiasm. If they were as good as they were back then, I cannot say as I never saw them play live “back in the day” (Who knows why, as I’m told they played in Omaha as much as they played in Lincoln). Compared to their recordings, including the just released Poison Fish, I can say they still have their chops. And needless to say, the crowd still adores them.

But there are still some nits to be picked. The sound mix was ass for the first of two sets — dreadfully muddy with too much bass and not enough guitar. Someone figured it out during the break because they sounded spot on during the second set. Also of note was the absence of drummer Greg Hill. No question that young’n Brandon McKenzie did a yeoman’s job behind the kit, but he still didn’t have the dynamism or drive that Hill brought to those recordings, and to be honest, I didn’t expect him to. The fact that he was there to help facilitate the reunion deserves plaudits on its own, and over time, I have no doubt that McKenzie would find his own groove to these rather well-worn songs if he got the chance. The question, of course, is will he get that chance.

There have been no official announcements regarding any future Millions shows, though I have to believe based on the turnout Saturday night that an Omaha promoter would be wise to book a gig either at Slowdown or The Waiting Room if the band is willing or interested.  And then there’s the rest of the region. No doubt during their heyday The Millions did their share of touring in the KC/Lawrence/Des Moines/Columbia market. With that new rarities album now available, it would behoove them to retrace their past conquests. And after that, who knows?

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