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Halou Shines With Cocteau Twins, Stripmall Architecture, USB Drives

Halou Shines With Cocteau Twins, Stripmall Architecture, USB Drives From remixing Rod Stewart, DJ Shadow and Radiohead to performing a kitchen-sink set with typewriters and wine glasses under the moniker Stripmall Architecture, San Francisco's Halou is a productive factory of musical ideas. Launched in 1995 by Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom and featuring engineer Count and others, Halou is currently hawking two 2008 efforts, its digital-only self-titled fourth full-length and an EP called Sawtooth . Halou has had help from, and helped out, some bigshots along the way. Ryan and Count have aided the production of bands as different as Blackalicious, Keane and No Doubt, while [...]