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Black Kids and SUNBEARS! will be hitting the road this month with Mates of State. Here’s hoping our favorite as yet undiscovered electro pop duo turns heads during this high-profile outing! • Five Broadway stars are giving away the chance to join them on stage in Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Hollywood at Thrasher-Horne Center for the Arts in Orange Park on Friday, April 3rd. Want your chance at stardom? Visit singingwiththebroadwaystars.com for more info. • Dark Castle returns to the First Coast on April 5th after a cross-country tour and will have their homecoming show at Doozers Pub. Be there to welcome the guys back. • Missed a good show at The Pit? If so, check out TFC Web Ads’ MySpace page (myspace.com/tfcwebads). The company has been shooting footage of bands performing in the venue for some time now and performances by locals like Simplex 1, Mindslip and Marion Crane are all there.

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