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Before making a return to form last year, alternative rock heroes Fall Out Boy nearly broke up. The band was on a hiatus as members worked on solo material. But with the success of Save Rock and Roll, which debuted at No. 1 on ...
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The Sonics, a group who brought “intentional rawness, danger, irreverence, screaming and a preference for live over studio-sculpted sound to mid-60s rock and roll,” as it’s put in a press release, had a huge influence on popula...
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Wire’s 1977 debut, Pink Flag, was noisy but the noise was tempered. The guitars on album opener “Reuters” were distorted but not that distorted. Most songs clocked in at one or two minutes in length and almost had a...
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When Anne (Barbara Crampton) and Paul (Andrew Sensenig) move into an old house in a small New England town, they get more than they bargained for. Turns out, the place is haunted by the family that used to live there. That’s th...
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When her mother took ill a few years ago, singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke decided to become her caretaker. That meant she couldn’t tour and record new material. And yet, she didn’t turn her creativity completely off. She took ...
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Thanks to some great exposure on MTV, Dashboard Confessional was a hugely popular alternative band of the 2000s even selling out Madison Square Garden on its last full band tour. Now, the group has reunited for a summer tour th...
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Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell has said that he wouldn’t have become the musician he is if he hadn’t grown up in Northern Alabama. Isbell, who played with the Drive-By Truckers before going solo a few years back, announced that...
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My Morning Jacket has just announced a long-term philanthropy effort called The Waterfall Project. Named after their new The Waterfall album, the project has been established to house the band’s ongoing cause-related work. The ...
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Writer-director Brett Haley’s new film I’ll See You in My Dreams stars Blythe Danner as a widowed retiree who experiences an abrupt change in her life of routines after her dog dies and she develops relationships of sorts with ...
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The Louisiana act Feufollet has retooled its sound into something it calls “Cajun swamp-pop” for its new album. On Two Universes, the group explores a melting pot sound that meshes Cajun, classic country, indie rock...