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TIMBRE BY RICHARD MARTIN

In the 'Clean Mindful of the swirling forcement. The message, it seems, ALWAYS MORE MUJ rumors about Everclear's impending could equally apply to his band- breakup, frontman Art Alexakis mates in his newest endeavor. ON SALE AT TO) tackled the topic immediately upon Live and Kicking: Six years ago, striding onstage Saturday night at with the Pacific Northwest locked in LaLuna, where he played an invite- the vise-grip of the movement that only party that followed Dr. Martens' came to be known as grunge, an annual fashion show. Before strum- assembly of scraggly haired break- ming a note, he announced that the aways encamped at the LaurelThirst multiplatinum-selling band hasn't Public House, a cozy, lodge-like called it quits, but that it'll go on a neighborhood tavern in Northeast yearlong hiatus while he releases Portland. Each night on the small and tours in support of a solo debut. stage, musicians ranging in age from Wearing black-rimmed hipster 20 to 60 dedicated themselves to spectacles and seated on a stool, playing rootsy music that sounded > put in One ef ike «orl

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