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Happy New Year! To kick off 2012, I’m happy to introduce a new contributor to ENS, Jonathan Goolsby. Jonathan co-hosts Salina Underground on Cincinnati’s own WVQC already, and I think after you read this piece you’ll be impressed with his writing skills as well. Enjoy!

Taking a Chance …

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After a decade and a half of music and eleven albums, Deerhoof is a band that doesn’t really need an introduction. They’ve been responsible for some of the catchiest weirdo indie rock since the start of the “indie” itself. And you know you’ve made an impact when your band’s music influences the creation of a school ballet in North Haven, Maine.

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This music blog market is funny. One day, you’re sitting in your room, noodling on guitar and recording yourself playing little melodies through a few choice effect pedals. The next, your music is being big-upped all over the internet and you’re suddenly in a nationally-touring band.

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Sean Daley (aka Slug) is one busy guy. A few days ago, he managed to squeeze in time for a quick conversation with Each Note Secure while tending to press duties at the KahBang Music Festival in Maine. Even with all his obligations of the day, Daley came …

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The last few years have been ones of drastic change for Interpol. The college radio superstars’ move to Capitol records proved short-lived, yielding only one record in more keyboard-leaning (but perhaps not as consistently lauded as their early work) Our Love to Admire. Since that time, the band …

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The Vivian Girls’ have had a busy couple years, and not necessarily only as the Vivian Girls. The two founding members, Cassie Ramone and “Kickball” Katy Goodman, have been busy not only with dealing with the waves of overwhelming infatuation and nasty backlash from their meteoric blog-fueled rise in the indie-lo-fi-rock world, but also with replacing drummer Ali Koehler after she left to join Best Coast, tending to their own side projects (The Babies and La Sera, respectively), preparing their third and most polished album to date only to have it leak weeks before its release date, and guesting on tracks by the likes of Male Bonding.

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Casey Dienel is all about changes. A few years ago, she declared that she would stop releasing music under her own name, instead taking up the moniker “White Hinterland.” This year, she and her songwriting/recording/touring partner Shawn Creeden threw off the orchestral, lilting sounds of Dienel’s previous work in favor of electronic sampling, abstract beats, and bit-crushed organs. 2010’s Kairos surprised critics, not just because of its haunting melodies, but because of the extreme willingness of an artist to switch things up while she was still introducing herself to the world.

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What happens when noise-rock kids decide to stray back to melody? If you’re Robin Silas Christian, Kevin Hendrick, and John Arthur Webb of Male Bonding, you slap together a record of insanely catchy and slightly unhinged ramshackle punk rock, sign to Sub Pop records, and tour the world.

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Ted Leo has been recording and performing music for over twenty years. Cutting his teeth in hardcore bands like Citizens Arrest and Chisel, Leo started writing music and touring as “Ted Leo and the Pharmacists” at the very end of the 90’s. Now, more than ten years later, Leo company is touring behind their sixth album, The Brutalist Bricks, which was released by Matador Records this year.

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Best Coast’s debut album, Crazy for You, was one of the most anticipated indie rock albums of 2010. However, by the time it came out in July, its role as a career marker for singer/songwriter Bethany Cosentino was almost academic. Buoyed by glowing praise from a host of …