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Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line finds faith in music after a string of tragedies

LOS ANGELES - In September, Joe Cardamone was backstage preparing to play the Glass House in Pomona. His new project Holy War was opening for electro-Goth group Cold Cave, and he was shaking from nerves.

Cardamone was deep into one of the most emotionally trying times in his life. He'd been working with his dear friend Annie Hardy on her new album, made in the wake of the deaths of both her young child and partner just months apart. Around the same time, his longtime band mate in the scabrous L.A. rock group

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