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From: "Michael Coxe" <audities@gmail.com>
> Finding the cream is damned hard in this new million-genre world.
> Taking Fleet Foxes & The Junipers as cream, can you kind folks
> recommend other groups/artists I should hear?

I did not see this message until tonight, when we came back from 
seeing Swedish alt-folkie The Tallest Man On Earth play a fine set at 
the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square.  As it happens, his opening act 
was a new-to-me band called Red Cortez, who were excellent, and who 
from their very first song reminded me very strongly of a slightly 
harder-rocking Fleet Foxes minus the harmonies.  They're from L.A., 
they used to be called Weather Underground, and I bought their CD. 
Details here: www.myspace.com/redcortezband

S