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  	<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:25:49 -0700</pubDate>
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	<title>Review: Acidman - Life</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/177</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:25:49 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m betting that Acidman are big believers in reincarnation. The jacket on their latest album boldly proclaims &quot;Life Woven in Thirteen Tapestries by Acidman.&quot; But we&#039;ve heard (seen?) these tapestries before, as <i>Life</i> mainly sticks with resurrected ideas from its predecessor <i>green chord</i>, which deviated little from its predecessor <i>and ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Blotto - Singles Collection 2004-2007</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/176</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:40:01 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There&#039;s something very special about sad songs sung happily. Blotto must think so too, but they&#039;ve even taken it one step further and mixed it with something else that blurs the line between joy and despair: alcoholism! Is Blotto celebrating the communal brotherhood of drunk punk, or ruing the fact ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Boris - Smile</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/175</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:20:13 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Straight up, <i>Smile</i> is not the best introduction to Boris. That honor would of course go to <i>Pink</i>, the 2005 album which broke the band in the West thanks to several state-side reissues from American avant-metal label Southern Lord. <i>Pink</i> was specially highlighted by critics from the <a href=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15909-pink>indie elite</a> ...]]></description>
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	<title>Feature: Keikaku's Staff Picks for 2007 (article)</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/features/78</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:18:12 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ll be the first to admit that pickings have been a little modest around Keikaku during 2007.  Maybe some of us have been struggling to pay the bills, or have gotten swept up in a Fall Out Boy obsession.  Or maybe the Japanese record companies have been paying us to stop saying mean things about their bands.

Nevertheless, we&#039;re looking back at 2007 with a more modest list to match, our staff members each picking one album from the past year to highlight.  If you&#039;re wondering why some people are missing, well, they&#039;re either off singing along to &quot;Dance, Dance&quot; in their underwear, or they contributed something like Dir en Grey and we basically &quot;forgot&quot; what they chose.]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Electric Eel Shock/ASAKUSA JINTA - Transamerica Ultra Rock/Sky ZERO</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/174</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:13:16 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Don&#039;t you hate it when you don&#039;t get a joke? Everyone around you is laughing and repeating the punch-line to themselves while you&#039;re sitting there wondering what all the fuss is about. Electric Eel Shock&#039;s new album <i>Transworld Ultra Rock</i> is the aural equivalent of that and the joke isn&#039;t ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Mugen Minus - Shinda Hazu no Boku no Tabi</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/173</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:13:12 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A band with a dedicated fanbase splits up. Yet, before the fans can mourn too much, a new band or solo project is formed featuring the frontman. We&#039;ve heard this story before with Sunny Day Service, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, Husking Bee, and a plethora of other bands. Add Mugen ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: BREAKfAST - Classic Six Packs</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/172</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:37:44 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Eighteen songs. Sixteen minutes. Screaming. Cardboard production. Skateboards. Yes, dear friends, it&#039;s another album from BREAKfAST, the most consistently fresh presence in the international hardcore scene. BREAKfAST&#039;s unique amalgam of skate-thrash and jazzy Minutemen-funk fulfills both one&#039;s desire to violently spazz out and one&#039;s desire to boogie down. The intricacies ...]]></description>
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	<title>Review: Sokabe Keiichi - blue</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/reviews/171</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:37:39 -0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Time changes everything, they say, and among other things, it turns the wheel of the seasons as summer turns to fall, fall turns to winter and so forth. And just like the coming of fall might fill a tree with splashes of passionate red, it can completely change a listener&#039;s ...]]></description>
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	<title>Feature: noodles (interview)</title>
<link>http://keikaku.net/features/76</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:28:12 -0700</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[<b>noodles</b> toured the US again for just three days in late October 2007, but Keikaku was able to interview them about their latest album and their tours in the States.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:28:09 -0700</pubDate>
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