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There are two basic categories of rock fans: those who go to Bonnaroo and those who go to Coachella; those who love Ani and those who love Kurt. It’s the smooth and the rough, the pretty and the jagged. Local quintet This Life Electric (formally the Van) is the former in all cases. Slick, white-boy blues meets hella wah-wah on the Life’s debut LP. If only Steamboat hadn’t closed. 
This article appears in July 21 • 2006.
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