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Run by graphic designers Eric Palmerlee and Johnathan Swafford, Aqualamb Records is a new label with a new approach to releasing music. It’s “inspired by the lack of album art in the age of invisible music.” In lieu...
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The career of multi-instrumentalist Booker T. Jones dates back to the early ‘60s when he got a gig as a session musician at Satellite (soon to be Stax Records) in Memphis. When he was 16, he played saxophone on “’Cause I Love Y...
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Swans‘ frontman Michael Gira originally thought he would be a visual artist. Since childhood, he regularly created illustrations and “devoured books on art.” He even went to art school. It was there that he wa...
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Scott Freiman’s Beatles lectures are such a hit that he’s become a regular on the lecture circuit. Freiman, a composer and producer who started putting together Beatles presentations four years ago as a way to entertain his mus...
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Wisconsin-born John McCutcheon was in school at St. John’s University in Minnesota when he decided to take a trip to Appalachia to spend time with some of the musicians there and learn the tricks of the trade. It was a formativ...
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In the wake of the release of her new album, Worthy, singer Bettye LaVette played a residency at the Café Carlyle in New York City. The residency kicks off a four-month promotional tour of North America, the UK, and Europe, inc...
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The music video for “How We Be,” the first single from Sinkane’s (Ahmed Gallab) latest album, Mean Love, serves as an ode to New York with its images of various neighborhoods. It includes step, ballet, breakdancing and other st...
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Cherub seems out of sync with most of the music coming out of Nashville, but the dance-pop duo certainly doesn’t mind. Songs such as “Monogamy,” “Doses & Mimosas” and “XOXO” shamelessly d...
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The guys in the Christian metalcore band August Burns Red were the catalyst that turned Lancaster, Pennsylvania, into a hardcore hotbed. Whatever money the band earned from hosting shows, it put toward buying gear for its group...
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"It’s about what is selfish and what is selfless and the gray line that sometimes divides the two," says 'Match' writer/director Stephen Belber.