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Formed in the wake of the dissolution of the Sex Pistols, the UK group Public Image Ltd reformed in 2008 and went back to the studio to issue This is PiL in 2012. The follow-up album, What the World Needs Now…, features more sn...
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Along with the British group Ride, Swervedriver typified the English shoegazer movement of the early ’90s. Although the band dissolved back in 1998, it reconvened in 2008 and has been touring ever since. Earlier this year, the ...
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Born in Dalarna, Sweden, singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson, who performs under the stage name The Tallest Man on Earth, has just issued a set of introspective songs characterized by his quivering vocals. Dark Bird Is Home’s fr...
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Most famous as the guitarist in the Strokes, the New York band that was rock’s great hope for a minute in the early 2000s, Albert Hammond Jr. embarked on a solo career back in 2006 when he released his debut album Yours to Keep...
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Born and raised in the tiny town of Pinetop, Arizona, pop singer Zella Day developed her raw talent from early age. She regularly performed at her grandmother’s coffee shop before she and her mother set off to L.A. in search of...
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Nick Thomas, guitarist and backup vocalist for the metalcore outfit Nodes of Ranvier, started the Spill Canvas up back in 2002 and shifted into a more post-punk/emo direction. The band caught on, despite the fact that it hailed...
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Falling To Rise, the new album from indie rockers Plastic Ants, starts with a piano-based power ballad “Hang On To The Good That You Got” that sets the mood for the album. It’s a somber number that has overtones of all the grea...
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The guys in the electronic dance music duo Mako — Logan Light and Alex Seaver — first met a few years back at the Electric Daisy Carnival festival in Las Vegas. They’ve been performing together ever since, even though their bac...
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An indie rock act The Good Life hadn’t put out a new studio album in eight years. The group just broke that dry spell with Everybody’s Coming Down, a collection of off-kilter songs. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Tim Kasher r...
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Released in March 1990, Social Distortion was the L.A punk band’s third album and it became their best-selling album worldwide. This past Record Store Day, the album was re-released on limited edition color vinyl.
The band is n...