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When Green Day performed at House of Blues around the Rock Hall inductions earlier this year, the band recruited singer-guitarist Jesse Malin to open the show. He started things off with a 30-minute set that drew mostly from Ne...
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Known for multiple appearances on Drunk History — and yes, she really was drunk, or so she claims — sarcastic comic Jen Kirkman is best known for her appearances on Chelsea Lately. She’s also written books and released two come...
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New York performer and record producer Martin Bisi has worked with cutting-edge acts from a variety of musical genres: indie, punk, avant garde, noire/cabaret rock and electronic. At a recording studio he started in 1981 in Bro...
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Formed nearly ten years ago in Tallahassee, punk rockers Mayday Parade have always had a DIY work ethic. The band sold some 50,000 copies of its debut EP, Tales Told by Dead Friends, before inking a deal with Fearless Records (...
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Drawing from New Orleans jazz, Memphis soul and musical theatre, Davina and The Vagabonds defies categorization. Singer/pianist Davina Sowers has rightly drawn comparisons to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday and Betty ...
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"It’s a growing process," says Ryan Mahan about touring and working toward the next Algiers album. "We’ve been using the live setting to develop as a band and introduce things that point toward the future."
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This fall, three-time Grammy and Emmy nominee, comedian Margaret Cho is embarking on The psyCHO Tour this fall. The show will include tributes to her “father in comedy,” Robin Williams and her “mother in comedy,” Joan Rivers. C...
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A classically trained musician, Anton “Zedd” Zaslavski has become one of the world’s best-known DJs and music producers. His two studio albums — 2012’s Clarity and this year’s True Colors — have sold by the truckloads and deliv...
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Singer Grace Potter leaves her country and rootsy rock impulses behind on Midnight, her first solo effort. Recorded and mixed at Barefoot Recording in Hollywood with producer Eric Valentine (Queens of the Stone Age, Nickel Cree...
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A dark comedy that focuses on two sisters (Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer) who struggle to find a way to dispose of a man they accidently kill, Addicted to Fresno is funnier than that description would imply. The film’s sharp, i...