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LOCAL BANDS ENTERTAIN SEATTLE INTERACTIVE CONFERENCE ATTENDEES

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Seattle Post Intelligencer
1980’s sweetheart Mudhoney amused fans at last week’s Seattle Interactive Conference.  The exciting rockers tickled conference attendees with old favorites as they closed out the conference during an intimate performance at the Showbox. The 2-day conference, which yielded over 3,500 people, featured a musical catalog that also included local names like Shabazz Palaces, Presidents of the United States of America, Death Cab for Cutie and Tim Bierman of Pearl Jam’s Ten Club who was featured at a panel discussion on digital music. The Seattle setting for the conference is deemed a “natural destination” for discussions about film, music and the digital world.

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THREE IMAGINARY GIRLS SHARES BUMBERSHOOT TOP PICKS

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Three Imaginary Girls
Three Imaginary Girls shares their top picks for making your Bumbershoot Saturday take tip-top shape. The site has established a list of some “can’t-miss acts and installations” and offers it up to readers. Wake up to Andrea Gibson at the Words & Ideas stage where Three Imaginary Girls reveres her poetic aptitude  and promises to have you “beside yourself at very sight and sound of it.” Step up to the Mainstage after lunch and rock out to Presidents of the United States of America. Watch the labor-day-weekend sun cross the horizon with catchy band Pickwick at the EMP Level 3 stage. Finally, keep the music jiving post-sunset with the rhythm and blues legend Mavis Staples at the Starbucks stage. With over ninety performances, this guide will be sure to help hone where you end up in the robust assemblage of activities there will be this Bumbershoot at Seattle Center.

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Dave Dederer has a new blog!

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Music Still Matters
Check out Dave Dederer’s new blog! Dave was founding member of the Presidents of the United States of America and has just started a new blog to share his favorite music and just general thoughts.

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The Presidents of the United States of America Unleash Multiple-Album iPhone App

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Wired:
Dave Dederer, former singer and guitarist for nineties hitmakers The Presidents of the United States of America, has fashioned quite a second career for himself as the vice president of business development for Seattle startup Melodeo, which makes nuTsie, a software application that can stream your iTunes playlists to any web-connected PC, your Blackberry and your Facebook profile. Dederer has neatly dovetailed his past and present with Melodeo’s release of a $3 app for iPhone and iPod Touch, which contains the four Presidents of the United States of America albums whose rights are owned by the band. The app includes rare, exclusive material that can be updated from the server side.

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NEW MUSIC, VIDEOS FROM THE WACKY PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A.

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Seattle Times:
The Presidents of the United States of America are at it again with their wacky antics. The Seattle band just released new music, including a new video. It presents the pop punkers as paper puppets on a sidewalk. The Presidents of the United States of America are also offering free weekly downloads on their site. In addition to the video, they released three new EP’s — “Rot in the Sun,” “Ladybug” and “More Bad Times,” available on iTunes.

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