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 It's Alive releases Mean Jeans and Underground Railroad to Candyland split

Posted by Loren on June 24, 2013

It's Alive Records has released a pair of new 7"s, a split between Portland's Mean Jeans and Southern California's Underground Railroad to Candyland, and another that sees Lipstick Homicide and The Turkletons contributing songs.

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