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Jon Devoto on the end of the Matches and beginning of Bird By Bird

Sep 1, 2009, 2:52pm

On July 9, NorCal hyphenate-rockers (and former AP cover stars and 2008 AP Tour alum) THE MATCHES announced a hiatus after nearly 10 years of playing together. In August, they digitally released album 4 unreleased; graphics? title? or not needed? and...

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