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    Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams


    So few roots-oriented bands manage to be accessible that there's a danger of going overboard when one comes into sight. But the BoDeans, out of Wisconsin, are one of the few – so let's go overboard a bit.

    Guitarists Sammy Llanas and Kurt Newmann write tight, snappy pop songs that acknowledge...

    2009 RS: Not Rated

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The title of BoDeans' debut album, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, alludes to the Rolling Stones song "Shattered," and to promote it, Llanas, Neumann, Griffin, and Hoffman went by the stage names Sammy, Beau, Bob, and Guy BoDean, a la the Ramones. Both bands have strongly influenced BoDeans' bracing guitar rock; the band's wistful pop sensibility, however, is evocative of Buddy Holly and the Everly...

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