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    <description><![CDATA[If all our waking days were as bleak as this band tends to imply, then Taxpayer would have no business making such exhilarating, life- affirming music. What would be the point?

More manic than depressive in temperament, this Boston band has already been compared with its share of hyperliterate, big-sounding, high-strung contemporaries. Yet Taxpayer is fast putting all its debts behind.

In fact, the comparisons range much farther afield than the contents of the average city college student's iPod. Taxpayer Is Recommended If You Like: Franz Kafka, Donnie Darko, the paintings of Francis Bacon, the smell of formaldehyde.

Absinthe, they say, gives you lead poisoning, makes you go crazy.

In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes, said another astute Masshole, Benjamin Franklin. Sex may be a great subject for rock & roll, but death and taxes are timeless. It's an apt approach for a group that?s clearly in it for the long haul.

The four band mates of Taxpayer - singer-guitarist Jared Marsh, guitarist Michael Jones, bassist Tim Peters and drummer Rob Adams -- took the long route in getting to their debut album, Bones & Lungs. Marsh and Adams were almost literally in diapers together. (Well, not the same pair.) The latecomer, Peters, a college-era addition, has already been with the group for a half-dozen years or so now.

And their play for longevity is made plain in the music. The futile quest for safety and comfort are recurring themes; so is disillusion. When They Were Young fumes over the empty frivolity of youth; In My Final Year anticipates an invalidism that goes well beyond anything imagined by the reigning geezers of rock.

It's heady stuff for a bunch of dudes still in their mid-20s. Dudes who aren't even terribly angst-y in their own daily dealings.

If the subject matter is bleak, the music is anything but. It's rapturous. Marauding. Full-throated, knives out. Well-suited for a killer light show, even. The songs on Bones & Lungs are coliseum- sized, canyon-filling, mighty enough to speak on behalf of anyone within earshot.

And that's a vast audience. The band is called Taxpayer because the concerns are universal. This is no mere exercise in artful lament -- Eeyore with a beret. This is a powerful demand for something like meaning. Anyone with a number can relate.]]></description>
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      <title>Marionette</title>
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      <title>Safer Than You</title>
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      <title>Bugs In Amber</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:49:46 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>Cut It Again</title>
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      <title>When They Were Young</title>
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      <title>TAXPAYER by Katie Dennis</title>
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      <title>TAXPAYER by Kelly Davidson</title>
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      <title>TAXPAYER / DEAR LEADER split EP - Record Release Madness!!!</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Taxpayer/Dear Leader split EP
four new songs from Dear Leader and four new songs from Taxpayer. The split EP will come out on Lunch Records on Tuesday, August 14 in three different configurations, 12" limited edition vinyl (100 copies only), digi-pack CD (avaliable at Newbury Comics), and as a digital download (available on iTunes & Emusic).

Record Release MADNESS!!!
Friday, August 10, 2007
Dear Leader and Taxpayer take over Boston Harbor for a show of historic proportions aboard the Mass Bay Lines MV Freedom
Rowes Wharf (Behind the Boston Harbor Hotel), Boston MA 
This will sell out. Get tickets now.

You've got options:
- charge By Phone - 1.866.468.7619
- or buy at all New England 'fye' and 'Strawberries' locations
- go to http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&pl=rockon&eventId=192078]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:03:20 -0700</pubDate>
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      <title>VOTING + NEW RECORDING + NEXT SHOW</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Coupla things for you all....<br /><br />
<p>Jay has been nominated for 'Best Male Vocalist' in WBZ's 2007 A-List awards. We're proud of the guy. Show you're proud of him, too, by clicking on the followinglink and voting for him. <a href="http://wbztv.cityvoter.com/Contests/ShowCategory.aspx?contestCategory=742" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO VOTE.</a> </p>
<p>+++++++</p>
<p>We have details on our next release!!! Four of our brand new songs (Settle Down Ghost, Marionette, Moving Parts, + You're A King Tonight) will take up one half of an LP (that's right.... vinyl) with the other side being handled by our good friends Dear Leader! This will be an EXTREMELY limited release, so you'll need to get one quickly. They will first be available at Dear Leader's next show and at our TT's show in June. The vinyl will be followed up by a split CD release, which will contain an extra track by us and an extra track by DL. Keep an eye out for more specific details, and in the coming weeks, we will put one (or maybe even 2?) of the new songs up on our Myspace page. Oh, and also keep your eyes peeled for details of a late summer booze crooze with us and the DL boys. I know..... awesome. </p>
<p>+++++++</p>
<p>Next show is gonna be awesome....  us, Emergency Music, Blizzard of 78, + the Vershok<br />
<a href="http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&pl=&eventId=173907" target="_blank">GET TICKETS NOW</a>, because this one will sell fast.</p>
<p>We love you.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 20:15:44 -0700</pubDate>
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