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The Upsides

Current price: $25.99
The Upsides
The Upsides

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The Upsides

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may take their name from the nostalgic and heartwarming TV show, but there is no nostalgia on and their hearts are way too anxious and emotional to be warm. Hot hearts, maybe. Their songs are filled with post-college angst, busted hearts, big questions, hope, anger, humor, and life. Vocalist delivers the words with total commitment and little artifice; he sounds like a regular guy, not a rock & roll frontman. The band's brand of emo-punk-pop is just as straightforward and unadorned. There's no Auto-Tune, no cheesy synths, and no nods to the pop charts. They simply take the best of each element of their conglomerated sound (the hookiness of pop, the heart-spilling fever of emo, the rambling energy of punk) and let it rip. Guitarists and join together for major riffage, trade off dueling lines, and basically tear things up while drummer is full of fury when he should be, but shows restraint when he needs to, and adds the occasional unobtrusive keyboard part. It's a time-honored sound but make it sound fresh and exciting by doing it seriously right. The concept album-like feel of the words that flow like a diary's worth of observations, feelings, and events, the way the songs fit together like an intricate puzzle, and the bleeding humanity of the band also help stand out among all the pretenders, phonies, and wanna-bes that clutter the record bins and thank-you sections of liner notes. may not be doing anything new at all, but with this record they give emo-pop the kick in the head it so richly deserves in 2010 and provide an alternative for people who want some punch in their pop. ~ Tim Sendra

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Barnes & Noble does business -- big business -- by the book. As the #1 bookseller in the US, it operates about 720 Barnes & Noble superstores (selling books, music, movies, and gifts) throughout all 50 US states and Washington, DC. The stores are typically 10,000 to 60,000 sq. ft. and stock between 60,000 and 200,000 book titles. Many of its locations contain Starbucks cafes, as well as music departments that carry more than 30,000 titles.

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