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"We want every record to feel like it’s the first record we ever made," says Cage the Elephant singer Matt Shultz.
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"We gave ourselves permission to get inside our own heads a little," says Joey Ryan about writing songs with bandmate Kenneth Pattengale for the latest Milk Carton Kids' album MONTEREY. "It is just more introspective."
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"I was in a rockabilly band and cut my teeth listening to Wanda Jackson and Patsy Cline and even Dolly Parton," says pop singer Cyndi Lauper whose on tour in support of her new country-tinged studio album DETOUR.
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"That’s what’s going to keep me hungry," says rapper Tech N9ne saying he still feels he hasn't gotten his due. "I still have something to prove."
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"In the past, you had people who were so excited about finding the new best music," says pop/R&B/hip-hop singer Santigold. "Now, it’s about finding an artist with a built-in following and that’s it."
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"I think we were all in a good spot where we were open to trying things and experimenting with new instruments," Silversun Pickups' Nikki Monninger says about the band's most recent album, Better Nature.
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"That’s the way the life of a performer," says actress/singer/comedian Sandra Bernhard about always moving forward in her career. "If you stay in it long enough and you’re good at what do you, you just get better and better."
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Finding themes from books and buried in his past, 53-year-old singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks believes his new songs reflect what he feels like "biologically and metabolically right now."
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"We knew we were doing the right thing," says The Darkness bassist Frankie Poullain about recording the band's most recent album, THE LAST OF OUR KIND. "We felt empowered and we wanted to be empowered."
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"I tried to keep things a little more positive," says Jake Smith about The White Buffalo album LOVE AND THE DEATH OF DAMNATION. "I tend to go to the dark side quite often."