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"I was looking for a place to get me back to the real stuff and the heart and soul of the matter," says country singer-guitarist Marty Stuart about what led to the creation of THE PILGRIM 20 years ago.
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"It was in English and indie rock, so I wasn’t expecting the Cuban institutions to like it or pay attention to it, but they did," Sweet Lizzy Project's Lisset Diaz says about the Cuban band's early music.
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The influential alternative Mexican rock band La Gusana Ciega recently came to the States to play a few dates in support of the new music video for “Pasiflorine” which addresses the issue of domestic violence on your radar for ...
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"I was drawn to weirder sounds," says singer-songwriter Elohim. "That’s naturally where my ear went even though I grew up playing classical piano. I always thought the weirder the better."
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Trombonist Sammie “Big Sam” Williams played in the Stooges Brass Band and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band before launching Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Williams, who also played on Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint’s album The River in ...
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"I’m excited that I’m completely sober now," says Sarah Shook. "That’s helped me get my head on straight in terms of where we’re going as a band and what our version of success means to us."
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"A lot of the songs [on PEP TALK] are really heavy but we want to keep things positive," says Judah & The Lion singer-banjo player Nate Zuercher. "We want to be real and honest but not discouraging."
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"Playing with these guys is the most fun I ever had in the recording studio and on the road," says Beth Bombara about recording and touring behind her latest record, EVERGREEN.
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"All the successes and failures come back to you with memories of that time," says singer-guitarist Colin Blunstone about revisiting The Zombies' ODEYSSEY AND ORACLE.
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"I had never seen music as working but now I was working," says indie pop singer Nilüfer Yanya about writing an album while promoting and performing.