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» Missed the Boat #6: Supergroups and Solo Surprises - In a time when more albums than ever are being made and fewer publications can afford to exist, more gatekeepers than ever are needed to separate the wheat from the chaff. Here's this month's batch of unreviewed but worth your time records that may have been overlooked.[08.16.2010 by Dan Weiss]

Name: Dave Toropov
Position: LAS Contributor
Location: Boston, Massachusetts USA
Biography: Introduced to music in the womb with a pair of headphones on his
mother's stomach, Dave Toropov has yet to recover the experience. A
writer based in Boston and New York, he has also written for Prefix
Magazine and What Was It Anyway, and is the maintainer of the "Middleclass Haunt" blog.
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Homepage: http://middleclasshaunt.blogspot.com
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