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				<title>Phoenix Comicon Schedule: DJ S.Alien on Performing at Geek Prom and Geeking Out This Weekend</title>
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			   During the daylight hours this weekend, local artist and music fiend Aaron Moore can be found waltzing through the aisles at Phoenix Comicon and perusing its vast repast of dorky pursuits and ...]]></description>
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				<featured_headline>DJ S.alien Talks Geek Prom and Geeking Out at Comicon</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Phoenix Beats The Taylor Swift Scavenger Hunt--Do You Know The Answer?</title>
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			 I'm not sure this is a conventional reason to feel civic pride, but I'm going to put it out there: Phoenix completed Taylor Swift's Willy Wonka scavenger hunt in two hours flat, with two of eigh...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:52:58 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Dan Moore</author>
			
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				<title>Carla Morrison - Musical Instrument Museum - 5/23/2013</title>
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			Carla MorrisonMusical Instruments Museum Music TheaterMay 23, 2013

Before belting into "Compartir," Carla Morrison addressed the crowd: "I never thought this was gonna happen. I'm so happy to be...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Weekend</title>
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			 Firemen are the real heroes. Or maybe teachers -- I can never remember. In any case, there will be lots of superheroes in town this weekend for Phoenix Comicon. Some of them will even be local m...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>Why I Wish I Hadn&apos;t Streamed Daft Punk&apos;s Random Access Memories</title>
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			I told myself that it wouldn't matter much, when Tuesday rolled around and I could finally purchase Daft Punk's Random Access Memories from the record store, that I'd already been streaming the a...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 04:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Derek Askey</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Streaming Daft Punk Was A Bad Idea</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>International Swingers: &quot;Punk Rock Was More About Conformity and Nonconformity Than Protest&quot;</title>
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Last night, the International Swingers rolled into 910 Live in Tempe and blasted out some big hits from rock 'n' roll lore, which is apropos, considering the punk supergroup's stature and his...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Benjamin Leatherman</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Int&apos;l Swingers: &quot;Punk Was More About Nonconformity Than Protest&quot;</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>The Ten Most Metal Deaths of Metal Musicians</title>
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			by Rick Giordano

Death has always been one of the most predominant themes in heavy metal music, taking a backseat maybe only to Satanism. Death, disease, murder and chaos have accompanied heavy ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:07 -0800</pubDate>
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				<title>11 Ways to Survive Music Festivals on a Budget</title>
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			  Let's face it: Arizona isn't exactly prime real estate for music festivals. Yes, we have the party-hard atmosphere of Country Thunder and the locally beloved McDowell Mountain Music Fest, the E...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:00:16 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Lauren Wise</author>
			
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				<title>Record Store Geek Study Concludes: Kids Today Are Musically Spoiled Rotten</title>
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			 When it comes to music, do kids today have it better or worse than the generations before them?   

I decided to do some research into the matter. By "research," I mean I asked my teenagers some...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Steve Wiley</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Science: Kids Today Are Musically Spoiled Rotten</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Why Do I Keep Laughing at These #WackWednesday Lonely Island Songs?</title>
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			The Lonely Island is a lot like one of those cans that's filled with spring-loaded snakes -- most of their humor comes from how long it takes for the joke to reveal itself, and how surprising it ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 12:45:59 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Dan Moore</author>
			
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				<title>The International Swingers: &quot;The First Punk Bands . . . Were Just Bands&quot;</title>
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			  Four punk legends walked into a bar. That's not the setup to some lame knee-slapper, but rather a precise description of what transpired Tuesday night in downtown Phoenix. The bar in question i...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:50:17 -0800</pubDate>
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				<featured_headline>The International Swingers Know The Meaning of Punk</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Phoenix Comicon Schedule: Concerts in Costume and an &quot;Adventure Time Rave&quot; Await Music Fans</title>
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			  Let's face it: We're always going to be the red-headed step-artform at comic book conventions. Superheroes have dominated movies for years, and videogames hit the comic-culture demographic pret...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2013/05/phoenix-comicon-rave-schedule-2013.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 06:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Dan Moore</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Local Music Gets Superpowers at Phoenix Comicon</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Carla Morrison: &quot;If I&apos;d Have Followed the Rules, I&apos;d Still Not Be Doing Anything&quot; </title>
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			Carla Morrison's return to the Valley is a bit of a homecoming: She attended high school at Marcos de Niza and took music classes at Mesa Community College before dropping out to perform with fri...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2013/05/carla-morrison-interview-2013-babaluca.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:45:30 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Yezmin Villarreal</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Carla Morrison Comes Back To The Valley</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>This Weekend&apos;s Unplanned, Unintentional, Unofficial Downtown Phoenix Indie Rock Fest</title>
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			 [The Valley is a big place, and it puts out more interesting music than we could ever hope to cover. Every week or so, Mike Bogumill will use this space to cover a little more of it. In this wee...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2013/05/playboy-manbaby-video-pop-convention.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:05:49 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Mike Bogumill</author>
			
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				<title>Christian Filardo: Avant-Garde &quot;Has to Have Some Sense of Humor&quot;</title>
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			 Christian Filardo is a local fixture in some ways. The 21-year-old is known as a noise musician, currently under the moniker Baseball Cap, and as an intermedia artist. He also is the founder of ...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2013/05/christian-filardo-new-surrealism-interview.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Mike Bogumill</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Christian Filardo: &quot;It&apos;s Basically Pretend Profound.&quot;</featured_headline>
			
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				<title>Thomas Gold: &quot;EDM Is an Open Field... I Love It.&quot; </title>
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			The Berlin-based DJ Thomas Gold will be visiting Maya, one of Scottsdale's newest hosts for EDM artists and events, this Friday.

Up on the Sun spoke with Gold about his upbringing in music, how ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Taylor Moon</author>
			
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				<title>Taylor Swift Will Incite a Willy Wonka Scavenger Hunt in Phoenix This Weekend</title>
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			  When people and brands re-create the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket promotion, they don't always seem aware that Willy Wonka is kind of a sociopath. Regardless: Taylor Swift is re-creating the Golde...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Dan Moore</author>
			
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				<title>MC Magic: Havana Brown&apos;s &quot;We Run the Night&quot; Should Have Been an Even Bigger Pop Smash</title>
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			Every once in a while I run into a record I've never heard of, even though it's been out for a while. "We Run the Night," by Australian DJ-turned-recording-artist Havana Brown, is one of those re...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 12:13:16 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>MC Magic</author>
			
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				<title>Why I Want to Date a Cowboy (Just Once)</title>
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			Country guys are hot. The crowd at the Miranda Lambert show provided plenty of people-watching opportunities, complete with lots of overdressed people and gigantic trucks that dwarved my poor lit...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2013/05/why-date-a-cowboy-miranda-lambert.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:25:10 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Melissa Fossum</author>
			
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				<title>Top Five Must-See Phoenix Shows This Week</title>
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			 "It's Friday somewhere" isn't strictly true -- I don't think the International Date Line works that way -- but if Jimmy Buffett were to write a song to that effect, and it made you feel better a...]]></description>
				<link>http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2013/05/phoenix-concerts-may-20-24.php</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:00 -0800</pubDate>
				<author>Phoenix New Times Staff</author>
			
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				<featured_headline>Five Phoenix Shows to See This Week</featured_headline>
			
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