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Girls - I Wish I Was Your Boyfriend

Photo by Sandy Kim Girls are a four piece from San Francisco who were my favourite band at SXSW. They sound like a mix of Phil Spector-era Ramones and Big Star gone grunge. The songs are ridiculously brilliant, the lyrics insanely catchy, the sentiments either overwhelmingly beautiful or overbearingly heartbreaking. Take slacker anthem ‘I Wish I Had A Boyfriend’ below. It’s lyrically like Skeelo’s I Wish, “I wish I had a suntan/I wish I had a pizza and a bottle of wine/I...

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13:42 on March 31 2009

Girls - I Wish I Was Your Boyfriend

Abeano — Photo by Sandy Kim Girls are a four piece from San Francisco who were my favourite band at SXSW. They sound like a mix of Phil Spector-era Ramones and Big Sta... more info

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