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The Uruguayan rock band No Te Va Gustar formed when members were still teenagers. While many bands that start out in those circumstances don’t make it past an album or two, these guys have persevered for more than 20 years now.
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Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki bought Presley’s 1962 Rolls-Royce at an auction and took a road trip to some of Presley’s old haunts, visiting places such as Sun ...
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Hip-hop dominated the third day of Lollapalooza. In a mid-afternoon set, Lil Pump delivered a set so raucous that he had to stop several times to tell fans to take a step away from the stage so anyone standing near the front wo...
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The major attraction of Day Two of this year’s incarnation of Lollapalooza at Chicago’s Grant Park was clearly Bruno Mars. Much like Prince and/or Michael Jackson, Mars mixes rock, funk, soul and R&B. He’s a decent dancer, ...
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At the start of this year’s incarnation of Lollapalooza, the four-day music fest that takes place annually at Chicago’s Grant Park, we caught the tail end of a set by the UK punk band Slaves. Undeterred by the sparsely filled v...
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"We search music that is much further afield, and that’s where we find our most exciting ideas," says The National's Bryce Dessner about being inspired by the diverse artists featured as part of MusicNOW and the inaugural Homec...
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"My whole shtick is to write about wherever I am in life," says country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert about what she's trying to do with her music and where she finds inspiration.
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"You face the same problems every time you write a song, more or less," says Vetusta Morla guitarist and keyboardist Juanma Latorre. "We tried to solve them in a different way."