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Staff Reviews

PAPER - Sunbeam (Jason Gardner)
Break Anchor/All Eyes West - Viva La Rustbelt (Jason Gardner)
Alaska/Oranges - The Summer I Joined The Harlem Globetrotters Split EP (Jason Gardner)

You can stream PAPER's Sunbeam here. This is the side project of Dashboard Confessional's drummer Mike Marsh. The album is also available to order on vinyl here.

The Graduate have added May tour dates with Nightmare of You, Edison Glass and Paper Rival.

Tour Dates

May 17 XTREME WHEELZ Buffalo, New York
May 18 MAGIC STICK - Detroit, Michigan
May 24 MARQUIS THEATRE - Denver, Colorado
May 25 SOLID GROUND - Salt Lake City, Utah
May 30 KNITTING FACTORY - Los Angeles, California
May 31 CHAIN REACTION - Anaheim, California
Jun 5 ROCK BOTTOM BAR - San Antonio, Texas
Jun 11 2 CENTS PLAIN - St. Louis, Missouri
Jun 14 BLENDER THEATRE AT GRAMERCY - New York, New York

Paper Models (ex Astoria, Homegrown, and JamisonParker) have posted a new song titled "Coming Back To Me" for download on their myspace. If you like what you hear then rejoice, because we'll be giving their new EP away very soon.

Taken from Coolfer: "If you're in the mood to download a 42-page PDF, check out this paper by University of Bristol economist Thierry Rayna on the economics of selling versus renting music.

Rayna's paper covers durable goods, problems with DRM systems, the reason behind the rental strategy (switching costs) and the argument that selling companies (like iTunes) aren't in competition with the renters (like Rhapsody), but rather with CD sellers.

(Via Digital Audio Insider)"

Interested in attending the Paper Models / The Ataris (acoustic) show tomorrow night (Wednesday) at the Ackerman Grand Ballroom on UCLA's campus--for free?! Well, you and a buddy could be doing just that, courtesy of Paper Models. Simply send an email to papermodelsband@hotmail.com (the contest closes at noon tomorrow), and that's it. If you want to make sure you get a ticket, they are available for $10 (list price $12); simply email charlie@wethepeoplerecords.net, and he'll get you all set up.

Paper Tigers have a few songs which they recorded with Matt Squire (Northstar, The Receiving End of Sirens, Panic! At the Disco) up on their MySpace page. Stunningly beautiful; go listen.

Note: Bonus points for anyone who can tell me what band this is a side project of.

Below is an update from Paper Models which they posted on their MySpace page:

Paper Models Update

Alright my little sex machines, it's Alex here and I have some PAPER MODELS news. We just found out that we will be playing at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA the day after Christmas opening for the beautiful HELLOGOODBYE. This show should be amazing and if you want to come see us, and I know all of you do, then you need to buy tickets very soon because about 3/4 of the tickets have been sold already and 4/4 will have been sold by the date of the show. Yes, that means it will sell out so get yourself to a TicketMaster so you can witness the holiday duet that Forrest Scott Kline and I are...