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Like the line in the Johnny Cash song, singer-songwriter Kimm Rogers has been everywhere, man. She moved from Cleveland to California and then to Nashville before moving back to California. There, after spending some time buski...
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Daughter of singer-songwriter John Hiatt, singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt just embarked on a tour in support of her sophomore record, Royal Blue, which was produced by Adam Landry (Deer Tick, T. Hardy Morris, Diamond Rugs). Her m...
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Holding All the Roses, Blackberry Smoke’s fourth studio album and its first for Rounder Records, might be the band’s heaviest yet. Singer-guitarist-songwriter Charlie Starr phoned in from his home just west of Atlanta to ...
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Once a fairly straightforward pop band, Guster goes in a different direction with its most recent album Evermotion. Produced by Richard Swift (Shins/Black Keys), it featuers Guster’s “most layered arrangments and wild ins...
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Formed in 1991 by singer John McCrea, Cake started out as an alternative to alternative rock. Regardless of how out of sync it sounded, the band quickly found a following and was signed to Capricorn Records following the releas...
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A “no wave” band formed in Cleveland by John D Morton (electric eels, Johnny & the Dicks) back in 1978, X__X has recently picked up a bit of traction. Last year, the band was featured in a New York Times’ article that chron...
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It’s been a busy year for the punk band Against Me! The band toured Europe and Australia earlier this year and is now making its way across the U.S. While a new studio album is only in its nascent stages, the band has a live al...
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A few years ago, Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath and Everclear singer Art Alexakis launched Summerland, a tour that paid tribute to bands from the ’90s. Alexakis wanted that tour to get a bit heavier and McGrath wanted the tour t...
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For his seventh studio album, Born On Fire, singer-songwriter Ike Reilly teamed up with former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. The album is a joint release between Rock Ridge Music and Tom Morello’s new label Fi...
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Comedian Dave Hill played with a number of indie rock bands — Uptown Sinclair, Cobra Verde, Valley Lodge and Sons of Elvis — before turning his talent to comedy (not that he’s left rock completely behind). On his new comedy alb...