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Middle school can be rough, a time when even the most well-adjusted kids are doing everything they can to look as cool as possible in the company of others. But some kids are just born that way, and the best thing they can do to look cool is just be cool. Sophie, Lucio and Izzy — Care Bears on Fire — are three such kids.

The three seventh-graders met in kindergarten, and since the fall of 2005, Sophie (guitar and vocals), Izzy (drums) and Lucio (bass) have been playing gigs in rock clubs, dances and parties under a moniker that’s far too clever for your average 12-year-old. Care Bears on Fire isn’t exactly breaking the mold and reinventing rock and/or roll with each show, but any power trio that can make a room full of adults grin from ear to ear and throw up the rock horns deserve at least a modicum of our undivided attention.

The pre-teen punk-infused power trio releases its first full-length debut album, I Stole Your Animal, on Tuesday, October 2nd, and the band will host a CD release party at Brooklyn’s Southpaw tomorrow night (the 29th). There you’ll be reminded of the teenage angst that once plagued your every thought, and you’ll most definitely smile along with the band as they throw down rockers like “Met You on MySpace” and “Five-Minute Boyfriend.”

Feel free to get sloshed on all the tequila you can stomach, but this is one show you should be careful not to offer anything to the band. Care Bears on Fire was kind of enough to answer a battery of questions for us, and our interview as well as the band’s debut video for Everybody Else follow after the jump…

The Last Waltz, No Direction Home, Comes A Time…now Marty will produce a documentary about the life and times of George Harrison: “Pic will cover Harrison’s Beatles career and later years that included a successful solo music career as well as a foray as a movie mogul when he backed Handmade Films and made pics such as Monty Python’s Life of Brian and Time Bandits. Scorsese…will also focus closely on the Eastern spiritual pursuits that were central to Harrison’s life.” [Variety]

Sometimes you wonder why some bands don’t get the nostalgic reacharound that others so readily do. Can’t get enough of The Stones, gotta have more of The Who…The Beatles could

I spent 13 minutes between 11:32 and 11:45 last night watching Wes Anderson’s short film, Hotel Chevalier, which iTunes has begun showing online freegratis. Whether or not the short film

Umphrey’s McGee has grown its fanbase extensively over the past two years, and the amazing podcasts that the band distributes to its fan and potential fans every two weeks can

It’s impossible not to fall in love with Ms. Sharon Jones at first glance. She’s at once a struttin’ storyteller, a sassmouthed soulstress, and a sensational seductress, all backed by

Live Nation has announced they are building a new Fillmore club in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of our nation’s capital. The new Fillmore, which is due to open in

This week’s edition of GTA features a miscellany of terrific performances. We start off with an outstanding Ryan Adams’ show from last week before moving on to a Meters bootleg that comes straight from George Porter Jr. Prince, a funk all-star in his own right, recently completed a 21-show run in London, and we’ve got his hot after-show from Friday night that includes a terrific cameo by Amy Winehouse. Finally we travel back to 1967 for a look at the beginnings of Traffic. As usual we’ve included a link to MP3 files for all of the torrents we’ve reviewed.

Ryan Adams 09/21/2007 SBD Matrix [FLAC, MP3, STREAM]

Ryan Adams is currently in the middle of a lengthy tour with The Cardinals, and we’ve gotta give Adams some major kudos for allowing tapers to patch in to the soundboard during many gigs on the run (there are soundboards of nearly every recent show on the Live Music Archive). It’s good to see Adams learned something from Phil Lesh about how circulating free soundboards actually drives ticket sales. After scouring some of Adams’ fan sites, we got a recommendation that Friday’s show in Toronto was the best of the batch. If only finding soundboards of the best recent shows from every live band was this easy.

Both the crowd and Adams seem extremely happy to be in each other’s company throughout every song played at this show. I’ve heard so many negative things about Adams’ demenor and stage presence, but this bootleg shows Adams to be engaging in his personality and his musicianship. Many audience members shout requests throughout the night, and Adams’ playfully jokes “You all sound like cavemen grunting from up here.” Musically, the highlights were numerous, including the band’s incredible harmonies on Peaceful Valley and its jamming on Magnolia Mountain. Read on for three more downloads…

We made an impassioned plea at the bottom of Monday night’s One More Cup of Coffee post for video of the epic Meet Me In The Morning collaboration between Bob

Bonnaroo seems like forever ago, and ‘forever ago’ seems like the worst turn of phrase I’ve ever used in a Hidden Track post. So, um, there we go. In any