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PERMANENT VACANCY

After a storied 40 years of world domination, you’d forgive the Violent Femmes for taking it easy nowadays – preferring to tend to their crops and focus on planning their next family vacation, rather that continue to smash out crash-hot folk-punk opuses and rip it up onstage the world over...

Wait... What’s that? We’ve got the wrong band? The seminal foursome of fury are still going as hard as they did when “Blister In The Sun” was making the airwaves its little bitch!? Huh!

Okay, so Gordon Gano and co. aren’t the spry youngsters they were in the late

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