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Seeing a show at the Echoplex is not unlike watching a band in the basement of your friend’s house: the ceiling is low, lots of concrete makes for terrible sound and you spend most of your time looking at the back of someone else’s head.

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Say what you will about indie-pop trumping the rock establishment, but you’re not likely to see that anytime soon on a Monday night at Spaceland. It remains to be seen if The Smashing Pumpkins v2.0 will achieve any of the relevance of their predecessor, but in the meantime, they’re making it safe for kids everywhere taking music lessons.

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