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After we ran our preview of tonight's show at the North Star, which was to feature Paper Route and Liam and Me supporting Young Love, we learned that Paper Route had to cancel the last several dates of its current tour, including its appearance at tonight's show. Liam and Me will still be appearing, and we certainly encourage you, dear readers, to support this local favorite.

Last summer, we had the opportunity to cover Paper Route (MySpace). The scheduling could have worked out poorly for the band, at least as far as we were concerned, because they were the opener of a lineup that also included Phantom Planet and Jack's Mannequin (one of our favorite bands to see live), and we were seeing The Honorary Title (ditto) and Paper Rival (ditto, R.I.P.) the same weekend. We were very pleasantly surprised, though, that Paper Route put on a memorable—if very abbreviated, but such is the life of an opening band—show.

No, this isn't about tomorrow's primary election (although you should be sure to vote in that, too), it's about local band and one-time Phillyist interview Liam and Me (MySpace). Their video for "Say It Out Loud" (embedded here) is in the running to become this week's "Freshman" video on mtvU. Don't get mtvU? Doesn't matter! Vote anyway (an unlimited number of times, even) and show those college kids one more way that Philadelphia is awesome.

Somewhere, we're not sure where, on this Phillyist's top ten list of favorite things in the whole wide world (which contains no fewer than fourteen items) are entries for "good local bands" and "gratuitous references to Coen Brothers movies." So I could hardly contain my excitement when I heard about Liam and Me (MySpace), a local band that draws their name from one of the most memorable lines from . "With a name evoking John Turturro's hilarious turn as Jesus Quintana," we thought, "this band had better not suck." But Editor Jill, who is familiar with Liam and Me and interviewed their frontman, Matt O'Dowd, for this very site a while back, assured me that they were a quality band with a great sound.