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"I’ve been making music with these guys for six years," explains Dan Auerbarch. "Arcs have been around for a while. This year is just the first time we started to share it with people."
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"We’re not an overly political band," says Donna the Buffalo's Tara Nevins, explaining The Stampede tour is more "about the basic fundamental rules of what’s wrong and right in a democracy."
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"When you love what you do, it keeps you motivated," says The Blind Boys of Alabama founder and singer Jimmy Carter about the gospel group's longevity.
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"We wanted to make a new album to reignite and reinvent who we are as a band," says Sleater-Kinney singer-guitarist Corin Tucker.
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After his 2007 album Spiderman of the Rings put him on the indie electronica map, Dan Deacon went in a variety of different directions as he honed his interactive live show, even partnering with a business to develop a phone ap...
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Born in Chewelah, Washington singer Allen Stone started singing at his father’s church when he was just a kid. Eventually, he’d discover soul music and make the shift from the sacred world to the secular one, self-releasing two...
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The Canadian rock band July Talk formed after Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay met cute, as they like to say in Hollywood. The two recruited guitarist Ian Docherty, bassist Josh Warburton and drummer Danny Miles for their 2012 self...
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In a short amount of time, young alt-country singer-songwriter Nikki Lane has become the “First Lady of Outlaw Country.” Lane, who’s just completed tours with Shakey Graves, Jenny Lewis and Social Distortion, recent...
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Out on the road in support of his new album, Delilah, singer-songwriter Anderson East has plenty of reasons to celebrate. The album came out earlier this year widespread acclaim on Low Country Sound/Elektra Records; it’s the fi...
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When singer-guitarist Doug Martsch first started the indie rock band Built to Spill back in 1992, he initially thought the band would be a studio project and deliver a series of finely tuned recordings with a rotating lineup of...