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Someone’s Listening In: Don’t You Die Yet

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Your SAK correspondent’s put death on hold in favor of some First Class Rioting.

The Tough Alliance Get “Lucky”; Groanworthy Headline Follows

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

The Tough Alliance (TTA to their friends) have a new track, “Lucky” that trades in their more electrified sound for an acoustic approach (and have seemingly followed their fellow Swede Jens Lekman in deleting their MySpace page). Apparently a cover of a teen group called Lucky Twice, one wonders if TTA thought they could do it better themselves, just wanted to pay homage, or simply needed to further image as blissful, anarchic, weirdo-contrarians.

You’ll recall that I caught the duo at SXSW this past March. What follows are some smoke-filled pics. It made for an entertaining show, most assuredly, but your SAK correspondents already severely limited photojournalism skills were completely undercut by a little atmospherics. Check it after the jump:

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