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Left of the Dial #3 - Dungens and Darlingcide

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If you've ever taken a creative writing class you might have been advised to "kill your darlings," or simply put, remove whatever thing is your personal favorite as a way to strengthen the work as a whole. The Cambridge, MA band Darlingside have termed this particular kind of murder "darlingcide," though opted for the gentler feel of the letter 's'.I'll think you'll find with their breezy tunes that this suits them fine. 

Plus we've got the far-out psychedelic sounds of Dungen.

Also this week we've got John Grant, the front man for the celebrated Denver-band The Czars. We're featuring a cheeky track featuring Tracy Thorn of Everything but the Girl. 

We're also featuring the Toronto band Dilly Dally, who are streaming their album alongside a video game that's inspired by Mortal Kombat.

Somehow topping that in unusualness, is the band The World is a Beautiful Place and I'm No Longer Afraid to Die. On their latest album, Harmlessness, there's a song called January 10, 2014, that's about the real-life event involving two murders of late-night bus drivers in Juárez, Mexico. An anonymous woman who called herself Dianna, Hunter of Bus Drivers took credit for the killings under the justification of revenge for sexual assault perpetrated by bus drivers on that route. This American Life did a piece on the story.

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