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If the world of music blogs is one of those crane games in arcades full of a motley mix of prizes, the Breaking blog’s weekly Hype Monitor column is the claw that will pick out the finest stuffed Scooby-Doo doll. Click below for this week’s column, including Brooklyn drone mongers She Keeps Bees.

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This week’s featured band on the Rolling Stone Breaking blog is Deerhunter, the strange group of shoegazers from Atlanta led by professional oddball Bradford Cox. Click below for more on Deerhunter and their excellent new album Microcastle, including two exclusive live performances of tracks from the record.

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Every week on the Breaking blog, the Hype Monitor uses the latest technology to comb the mountain caves of the Internet to flush out the finest buzzworthy bands. Click below for this week’s column, which features scratchy R&B throwback Illa J, brother of late iconic hip-hop producer J Dilla.

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The first tune to drop off Michael Nau’s (who was once known as Page France and is now using the moniker Cotton Jones) January LP Paranoid Cocoon (Suicide Squeeze) is a Doors-esque Sixties groove with a recession-ready title. Click below to give it a listen on the Breaking blog.

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The number of bands picking up buzz in the mosh pit that is the Internet can sometimes be overwhelming, but luckily the Breaking blog supplies discerning headbangers with the Hype Monitor, which lets you know what groups are worthy of being picked up and passed around for a crowd surf. Click below for this week’s column, including popular CMJ electropoppers Passion Pit.

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The Subways are this week’s featured artist on the Breaking blog. The trio of English youths combines punk rock aggression with pretty melodies and razor-sharp production care of producer Butch Vig. Click below for more on the Subways, including an acoustic performance of “Lostboy.”

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Sultry indie electro duo Uh Huh Her have a delightfully eclectic mixed pedigree: Camila Grey backed up the likes of Busta Rhymes, Kelly Osbourne and Melissa Auf Der Maur, while Leisha Hailey spent time in ’90s indie faves the Murmurs before playing Alice Pieszecki on The L Word. The group dropped their bubbly debut full-length Common Reaction back in August, and you can click below to head on over to the Breaking blog for a free download of the anthemic “Not a Love Song.”

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It’s a jungle out here on the Internet, which is why every week the Breaking blog provides you with a sharp machete called Hype Monitor, which cuts through the brush to find the finest new bands embedded in the weeds. Click below for this week’s installment, featuring New York doom poppers Crystal Stilts.

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This week’s featured artist on the Breaking blog is Jack’s Mannequin, the nom-de-rock of former Something Corporate frontman Andrew McMahon. His new album The Glass Passenger melds jumpy pop-punk, stout piano rock and Beach Boys-esque production flourishes. Click below for more on Jack’s Mannequin, including an exclusive video interview.

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Every week, the Breaking blog’s Hype Monitor attempts to find the Everlasting Gobstoppers in the creepy chocolate factory that is the world of Internet buzz bands. Click below for this week’s column, which features New York’s Department of Eagles, a spacey, folky duo born at New York University and raised on a steady diet of haunted keyboards and magical vocal harmonies.

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This week’s featured artist on the Breaking blog is Rachael Yamagata, the feisty Philadelphia singer-songwriter who overcame getting dumped by her label and her boyfriend to channel her inner Axl Rose for the excellent double disc Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart. Click below for more on Yamagata, including a trio of behind the scenes videos that take you into Yamagata’s studio.

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Each week on the Breaking blog, Hype Monitor flies over the battlefields of the internet to drop supplies on only the most deserving bands in the blogosphere. Click below for this week’s column, featuring the newly reinvented buzz-pop of Her Space Holiday.

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Every week, the Internet puts up dozens of new wannabes for buzz band president, which is why the Breaking blog delivers Hype Monitor each week to vet the most viable candidates. This week’s column features Kiss Me at the Gate, a female-fronted quarted whose jagged, surgary pop songs recall the days when Throwing Muses and the Breeders were radio regulars. Click below for more on Kiss Me at the Gate, plus info on Cause Co-Motion and Desolation Forest.

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Kanye West protégé Kid Sister has her debut album dropping on November 25th. Head on over to the RollingStone.com Breaking blog to download the bouncy track “Family Reunion,” which features Kid Sister’s elastic rhymes and a balls-to-the-wall appearance care of David Banner.

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This week’s featured artist on the RollingStone.com Breaking blog is Jamey Johnson, an Alabama badass who first made his mark as a co-writer of Trace Adkins’ crossover hit “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.” His own album That Lonesome Song is a more sober collection of songs about hard-living and heartbreak. Click below for more on Johnson, including the video for his hit “In Color.”

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