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Producer T-Bone Burnett, the mastermind behind the bluegrass soundtrack to the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother Where Art Thou, reunited with the directing duo to work on their new film Inside Llewyn Davis, a fictional accoun...
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After playing a few dates last year in Spain, The Dream Syndicate, the L.A.-based garage/punk rock act fronted by singer-guitarist Steve Wynn, has booked a handful of dates in the US. Those dates will mark The Dream Syndicate’s...
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Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur made quite an impression with his 2000 full-length debut Come to Where I’m From. One of the year’s best reviewed albums, it ended up on a number of Top 10 lists. The incredibly prolific Arthur, a...
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On last year’s Synthetica, the Canadian synth pop band Metric explored the postmodern condition in songs essentially about the fine line between what’s real and what’s not. Guitarist James Shaw phoned in from a tour stop in Vir...
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When he was still in middle school, Ed Kowalczyk formed the spiritually-inspired rock act Live. The group would go to sell millions of albums in the ’90s before it came to an ugly end in 2009 and band members filed a lawsuit ag...
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It didn’t take long for the neo-soul band Fitz and the Tantrums to pick up steam. The band practiced only once before playing its first gig. The group’s full-length debut, 2010’s Pickin’ Up the Pieces, yielded the infectious s...
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A founding member of the Smiths, Johnny Marr is a phenomenal guitarist whose retro-sounding style of playing defined the British band’s tunes as much as Morrissey’s vocals did. After stints with The The, Modest Mouse and the Cr...
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Langhorne Slim’s first album, The Electric Love Letter, came out nearly a decade ago and he’s been touring and recording steadily ever since. Even though his most recent release, The Way We Move, came out last year it continues...
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Whopperjaw HQ is in Cleveland, which is also home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That’s why we’ve been lucky enough to attend the Museum’s annual Music Masters over the last several years. A week of events...
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Singer-songwriter Matt Nathanson released his first album 20 years ago and has been going steady ever since. His new album, Last of the Great Pretenders, is an introspective affair that begins with the spirited “Earthquake Weat...