Akron/Family Sign to Dead Oceans, Prep New Album

Folk rockin' flock Akron/Family have become the newest branch in the formidable family tree of relatively new Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar offshoot Dead Oceans. The guys are currently hard at work preparing their follow-up to the Young God-issued 2007 set Love Is Simple for a spring release on their new label, and gearing up for a trio of late 2008 tour dates along the East Coast, including that New Year's Eve Knitting Factory blowout they're curating. Billboard.com reports that t...

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