Photo:Travis Schneider

Each week on the Breaking blog, Hype Monitor drills into the arctic tundra that is the Internet in search of the oil deposits that represent the finest in buzzworthy bands. Click below for this week’s column, which includes Seattle’s Army Navy, whose shiny happy power pop tunes evoke classic Britpop.

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