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With Inara now back in Dallas, unfortunately, I'm going to have to dive head-first into all the work that I put off last week. In other words, things are going to be pretty spare around here the next few days because I'm up against a deadline on a producing project I need to get done.

But hey, there's a new Suede studio album for the first time in more than ten years -- and that's always a good thing.

Here's It Starts and Ends With You.

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This was such a damn good debut record, the band had a terrific pedigree -- featuring ex-members of Suede -- and of course after all this time I still have a hardcore crush on Justine Frischmann.

Here's Elastica's powerhouse first single in the UK -- Stutter.

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In August, deluxe editions of basically every album these guys have made will be released -- and I'll rejoice appropriately. This is still one of my favorite songs of the early 90s, maybe because its unabashedly bombastic sound and Brett Anderson's new-wave-Alan-Cumming-in-Cabaret persona stood in such sharp contrast to everything that was going on musically at the time. And that made it ballsy as hell.

Rumor has it, by the way, that Ricky Gervais was instrumental in getting these guys signed. Which I love saying just because it allows me to think of Gervais saying "mental."

Here's Suede's The Drowners.