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poster by Garrison Reid

We are pleased to present an intimate evening with Toronto's Great Lake Swimmers at Dallas' own Bend Studio on Sunday, June 17th. With a capacity of only 85, Bend Studio is an ideal venue for the Swimmers, whose majestic Ongiara LP remains one of the more underappreciated albums of 2007. Here's Ongiara's ode-to-the-Canadian wilderness opening track:

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Great Lake Swimmers Your Rocky Spine

Recommended for fans of Sufjan Stevens' Seven Swans, Sun Kil Moon, and of course, the Canadian wilderness. L.A.'s Eleni Mandell opens. Purchase tickets here.

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elsewhere:

Person Pitch

Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective, is our guest on today's episode of SIRIUS Blog Radio, which will air at Noon EST, and again at 9 PM PST for you left-coasters. Noah's going to talk Person Pitch, Strawberry Jam, and more, plus he'll spin a few songs that he's been listening to lately. Here's a new video of Panda Bear performing "Laughed for a World Filled with Fantasy":

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Finally:

The new Black Dice 12" that just came out on Paw Tracks has us simultaneously intrigued and confused as we attempt to decide if we're cool enough to like this sort of thing. 20 Jazz Funk Greats makes a pretty valid attempt to explain it to us, but we can assure you this video of the band debuting the A-side "Roll Up" on Peruvian TV show "Jammin'" gets increasingly hypnotic the longer you watch it.