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Rewind: The Final Week in Rock Daily

In its final week on the Web, the Rock Daily blog went out with a bang as we checked out four awesome Coachella warm-up reunion shows: Pavement’s first U.S. reunion concert, Faith No More’s powerhouse gig at San Fran’s Warfield, the return of Public Image Ltd. and the Specials in Los Angeles.
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New Reviews: MGMT and Freelance Whales

Photo: Van Diji/AFP/Getty Before MGMT’s second album Congratulations even hit stores, it was being hailed as the Most Polarizing Album of 2010. The LP’s aesthetic is a galaxy away from the electro-pop of Oracular Spectacular’s hits “Kids” and “Time to Pretend” — Congratulations finds Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden mining late-’60s psychedelic and folk rock [...]