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I can remember the exact moment I first heard the Violent Femmes. I was on a school bus trip. The older kids hipped us to it and it felt like I’d found my music – I was into it instantly. It was impossible not to be. It sounded like everything and nothing all at one, which is to say it sounded like lots of music I already knew and like nothing I’d ever …
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