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Parenthetical Girls, No Kids, Worlds Greatest Ghosts

Parenthetical Girl's (http://www.myspace.com/parentheticalgirlsband) latest album has a linear narrative of ascendancy, adolescent sexuality, quantum mechanics, consent, and other moral ambiguities - all set to an elaborately orchestrated olio of Modern Classical and timeworn, traditional American pop forms.

From Vancouver, Canada, No Kids (www.myspace.com/nokidsband) is a trio comprised of 3/4s of the critically revered pop band P:ano. Less busy instrumentally than their former project, the band still deals out polyrhythms generously and peppers its tunes with a vast arsenal of instruments that include expansive lap steel, woodwinds, and string and horn sections.

World's Greatest Ghosts (www.myspace.com/worldsgreatestghosts) has been making the rounds of Portland's house-show circuit with sing-along synth pop and angular, post-punk guitar.