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The Rakes | Bowery Ballroom | 4.06.2009

by soundbites on Wed, 2009/04/08 - 1:06pm

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Rakes, clearly New York has missed you.
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The Rakes are putting on a festie, and true to festie tradition it’s craply organised, full of drunken morons, and a touch on the ludicrously expensive side. But hey! None of this phases our reporter Katie Weatherall, who hunts down all the decent bands and reports their asses. Let’s GO!
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