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Yayyy! Quick Hits is back and again spreading the love to all our inked-up, hair-mussed, indie rocker friends.

Each month, Quick Hits writer Darby Dixon will give you several bits of data to help your all-important indie rock purchase decision: a photo of the band or album cover to stoke your fantasies; a spot review -- so we feel like we actually did something; a thumbs up or thumbs down buying guide, so we can exert our mighty market power, and an MP3 or WMA sample, so you can tell us to go screw and decide if you like the bands yourself.

Send all feedback, review/interview requests, and free CDs & ticket hook-ups to Darby at darby@arrivistepress.com.

The Trucks	The Trucks			Clickpop Records
	Question: What do you get when you mix cute girls, questionable fashion choices, and electro-pop? Did you say "Painful memories of high school"? Us too. But now, there's the self-titled debut from The Trucks. Like high school, they're ridiculous. Difference is, we love The Trucks. Their dance hooks are crazy hot and their rhythm section spot-on. And the lyrics, for being about bicycles and boobs, aren't dumb. Download "Shattered" and see what we mean. Then get the album for "Comeback." It's our pick for Most Addictive Synth-Pop Power Ballad of 2006.		Shattered	Pick this up!
Make A Rising	Rip Through the Hawk Black Night			High Two Records
	How many Fiery Furnaces albums do we really need? Matt, Eleanor, give us a break. We're still only halfway through Blueberry Boat. Er, wait. Our bad. Rip Through the Hawk Black Night comes from Make a Rising. In our defense, the CD sounds like what the Friedberger siblings would create if they got wasted, blew the eBay budget on real instruments instead of cheap Casios, and went Flaming Lips-style studio hogwild. In short, it's a mess. But, an orchestrated, heightened mess.		When Moving West	Pick this up!
Sonic Liberation Front	Change Over Time			High Two Records
	Being hipsters, we know what's cool, and we're not sure about this free jazz stuff. You might want to check with your aficionado friends to see where it stacks. (They stopped returning our calls after we said they were snobs. Something about pots and kettles.) Still, cool or not, Sonic Liberation Front's Change Over Time feels alright to us. There's some kick to the horns, and the percussion--they use about 14 types of drums--is all over the map. Sure sounds like they're having fun, too. Fun is cool, this week.		The Next Thing That Happens

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