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Live in-Studio: Hem

August 15, 2013

When Dan Messé was forming a band in Brooklyn, in 1999, the New York City borough had yet to become an epicenter of hipster rock. Their origins are quaintly analog: Messé placed an ad in the newspaper seeking a lead singer, and Sally Ellyson gave him a cassette tape on which she had recorded a […]

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