Check out the new online Cliché Magazine and their featured Hype Machine tracks in this month’s issue: http://www.clichemag.com/issue02/ [via]

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Tomorrow’s Independents Day! For honoring all the independent labels. Right? A summery MP3 mix to celebrate: http://is.gd/1myxR [via]

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Tomorrow’s Woodsist Fest location/times remain the same (for now), Bushwick’s Broadway Backyard. Rain: stay away for just one day, OK? [via]

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NYCers: Rain forcing today’s Woodsist/Captured Tracks fest indoors, to Market Hotel (all bands start 45mins earlier than scheduled). [via]

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[new LHB post] Book Notes - Peter Terzian ("Heavy Rotation") http://tinyurl.com/kod79l [via]

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@peterterzian ’s LHB Book Notes playlist of songs of loss for his compilation Heavy Rotation http://bit.ly/GO1N1 [via]

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Today is the last day to enter this week’s LHB contest and win 75 random CDs http://bit.ly/GO1N1 [via]

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[new LHB post] Shorties (Jeff Tweedy, Best Albums of 2009, and more) http://tinyurl.com/n9con3 [via]

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At Amazon MP#: Biz Markie’s 5-track Just a Friend EP for only 99 cents http://bit.ly/femMm [via]

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[new LHB post] Daily Downloads (Lightning Dust, Megafaun, and more) http://tinyurl.com/klkx2v [via]

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Free at Amazon MP3: the 5-track Golden Voices sampler, featuring Ella, Edit Piaf, and more http://bit.ly/1bgL77 [via]

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