INTERNATIONAL MUSIC - This weeks featured Band

Foreign Islands rock the punk, spazz, dance, and handclaps.

It's definitely not easy being an unsigned band in NYC. You mange to record a few songs and scrap together the shows as they come, but mostly you just stress about the inevitable day when the money will run out and the van will break down. Sometimes being in an under-the-radar band is about as glamorous as temping at Pfizer; no one notices you, yet you always feel as if you're someone's bitch.

This is why many bands often, and understandably, go to great lengths to separate themselves from the pack of their unnoticed musical peers. They'll do most anything, short of steroids, to push their careers to that next level and leave this hand-to-mouth business behind. "Are my pants awesome enough?" they'll ask. "How's this part in my hair?" "Should I buy that blogger a beer?" Sometimes such superficialities take over and rip focus away from the real stuff, like practicing and, you know, getting better. Some bands will spam you on MySpace and make appointments for hair highlights before they'll work an extra hour at their practice space.
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music news

Foals aren't too chicken to take it back to the noodle.
British newspaper The Telegraph ran a headline that read "Foals: Are They The New Radiohead?" Geez, they take their hype seriously over there. Never mind that this band sounds absolutely nothing like Radiohead. Unless Radiohead was really Don.
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Destroyer's sound is always a day early and a few bucks in the black
Destroyer, a.k.a Dan Bejar (an occasional New Pornographers member), write cryptic pop songs with a unique vocal styling similar to early David Bowie. Always pushing the envelope with every album (and seemingly using a different backing band with every tour).
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Apollo Heights take shoegaze-soul to the top.
NYC's Apollo Heights play music that can be described as retro shoegaze-psych-soul. Led by identical twins, Danny and Daniel Chavis, this accomplished band has steadily built a reputation as a group you just need to see live.
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No matter what you hear, Deer Tick is really from Rhode Island.
Deer Tick is the project of singer/songwriter/retro-crooner John McCauley and his revolving cast of supporting players. McCauley claims he's from Providence, Rhode Island, but it sure sounds like he's from some point south of the Mason-Dixon line.
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World Music

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I wonder if I could get this thing to go global, " I been around the world in 6 days". The virtual world make it much easier than in real life! I went ahead and expanded my mind a little sample different forms of music. I guess by this section you could tell I had another Idea! The really funny thing all the places I've been a people I've talked to know about Atlanta!