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DOWNLOAD AND R.I.P.: Friendly Foes

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 2, 2010 7:40PM

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Photo by Jerry Wald

We've been sitting on this one for a while now, saving it for just the right time, and today's combination of cloudy with a slight chance of snow and a 100% chance of Superchunk provides the perfect backdrop to offer this free download. Friendly Foes burst on the scene a few years ago and we immediately fell in love with them. As too often happens to genius bands that get little notice it proved Friendly Foes were not long for our world, and the group disbanded earlier this year. As also often happens, Friendly Foes broke up with a finished EP done and no band to promote it. So what did they do? They decided to give it away for free!

So inject some scrappy power-pop into your day for the low low price of 100& free, and hope against hope that maybe ten years from now Friendly Foes will do a two or three show reunion tour of Midwestern basements.

Download: Friendly Foes - Liz, Ryan, & Sean EP