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The Midwest has relocated to New York City. Or, at least, a few of its native musicians have. In October of 2007, Jones Street Station - a band of cornstalk state transplants -released their debut album, Overcome, full of rootsy (if not downright 'roots')-style songs, and are primed to release their sophomore effort early this year. Right now they're circling back across the country on tour, and will soon hook up with Ben Kweller for a run of shows.

Bad design is all around us, but there's no bad design like bad election year design. Let's take a moment here to catalog some notable atrocities from recent election cycles, and then hang our heads in bipartisan shame. Offender number one is Bush/Cheney's militantly mindless logo from 2004; you can almost hear the designer making phlegmatic war movie sound effects to himself as he drafted it.