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		<title>Thanks, and Goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, last night&#8217;s show at the Brick City Sound Riot in Newark, NJ was amazing. It was a fantastic event, the bands were truly incredible all weekend long. Our friends at Spillpeak and GhostTrain who organized and staffed it deserve praise and accolades, you just don&#8217;t see an event like that come together very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=701&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wave of the Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Smith of The Porchistas got in touch with me in the lead up to Hurricane Irene looking for this tune. &#8220;Wave of the Future&#8221; is a song I wrote for The Meltdowns, a band that Adam and I used to be in, and in this iteration of the band (the final and best one) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=694&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brick City Sound Riot! Our Last Show w/ Sarah!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So all Summer our dear friends at Ghost Train PR and Spill Peak Media, in conjunction with the Tiny Giant Artist Collective have been working their asses off to put together a two-stage, three-day music festival featuring some of the best local music acts from the area, the Brick City Sound Riot! We&#8217;ll be playing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=686&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday: Led into the Lanes!!!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are rolling in to Asbury Lanes in something like, uhh, 20 hours! Or so. We&#8217;re playing at The Amboys&#8217; release show for their new EP, Led Into the Woods, and I&#8217;m really excited about it. Great band, looking forward to hearing all the new tunes and seeing them live, it&#8217;s a rad funky show, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=683&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday: A Night to Fight at Mercury Lounge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, we&#8217;re playing a special show this Tuesday night, August 16th, at Mercury Lounge in NYC. In this reminder post let me recount what&#8217;s so freaking special: Yours truly, Ben Franklin, has OUTFITS! Costumes you could even call them. It&#8217;s a start down the path of getting weirder and weirder as we relax our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=680&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Shows! EP Releases and Municipal Mischief</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;re doing a couple of shows this Summer, despite that whole no-shows thing. The idea was that it was high time for us to stop trying to put together our own shows for the next few months, as we&#8217;re not a headliner, and work on our act and wait for something good to come [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=674&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cluster Cascade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We made some new friends with the band Meet/Pause not too long ago. Of the group of bands known as Tiny Giant Artist Collective (to which we&#8217;ve been added as honorary clown members), they put on a really enigmatic set at McCormick&#8217;s when we were there. Singer and guitar player Scott Thompson is one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=668&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Entitled Here?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing that the top 1% in this country can dare to talk about &#8220;entitlements&#8221; when describing insurance programs (Social Security, Medicare) we schmucks pay into to avoid being completely destitute in old age, mostly because our elite have set up an inhumane system of existence and survival that ensures this will be the case [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=665&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Records In The Making</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congrats to our label mates ¡No Pasaran! who have successfully funded their KickStarter project, which was to help fund the production of their new 7&#8243;, Porter in the Making, out this Friday on Killing Horse Records. I&#8217;m very excited about the release show at Maxwell&#8217;s this Friday night, it&#8217;s not to be missed. We played [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=660&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do you realize I haven&#8217;t kissed you in over an hour?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 17:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This came up in email discussion amongst the frenz banklin today. We&#8217;re working on ideas for a video.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wearebenfranklin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9944055&amp;post=657&amp;subd=wearebenfranklin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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