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WALK THE MOON(ROCK BAND)..

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Walk The Moon  (styled  WALK THE MOON ) is an American  rock  band based in  Cincinnati , Ohio. [1]  Lead singer Nicholas Petricca started the band in 2006, while a student at Kenyon College, deriving the band's name from the song " Walking on the Moon " by  The Police . [2]  The group independently released their debut studio album,  i want, i want , in November 2010, receiving airplay for the track " Anna Sun " on multiple Alternative radio stations. [3]  Along with the success of Anna Sun, Alt. Nation named them a band you need to know for the Summer of 2012. Influential music blog Neon Gold helped to break the band in January 2011, calling Anna Sun "the kind of stuff British A&R dreams, and major label bidding wars, are made of."  [4]  In February 2011, they signed to  RCA Records  and in June 2012 released their first major label studio album,  Walk the Moon   [5]  which includes a re-recorded version of Anna Sun from  i want!, i want! , which

Should we give a damn about the Oxford comma?

A recent court case seems like a victory for fans of the grand old Oxford comma. To many, it feels natural to write "Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Cleveland." But just as one may feel lazy saying "My brother and me went home" rather than "My brother and I," there is a sense that it is more proper to write "Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland," inserting a comma after the item before the last one. And people advocating for the Oxford comma have a point now and then. If you were a trucker reading that union rules deny you overtime pay for "the canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of agricultural produce," would you consider yourself due overtime payment nevertheless for distribution? That is, as opposed to packing things for shipping and distribution? Truckers for Oakhurst Dairy in Maine have been   granted back overtime pay   for having distributed product as