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Singer-guitarist Melissa Etheridge released a debut self-titled album that yielded the Grammy-nominated single “Bring Me Some Water” in 1988. Now, some 25 years later, This is M.E., returns to the heartland rock sound of that f...
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Singer-songwriter Gary Calamar started out working at record stores in the ‘80s. He somehow weaseled his way into a DJ gig at KCRW, the hugely influential NPR station based out of Santa Monica. He’s worked as music supervisor f...
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The Pretty Reckless formed in 2009 and a year later released its full-length debut, Light Me Up, an album that yielded hits such as “Make Me Wanna Die.” Earlier this year, the band, which has toured with Evanescence, Marilyn Ma...
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The Toronto-based indie rock group Sloan is a true democracy. All four members — Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott —write songs for each album. The band’s latest release, Commonwealth, is a double al...
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Currently traipsing across the country on his Yee Yee Nation 2014 tour, country singer Granger Smith has put up some impressive numbers over the span of a relatively short career. He’s amassed 25 million unique YouTube views, p...
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Producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and guitarist Adrian Belew has done it all. For 33 years, he was the frontman, singer and guitarist in the prog rock group King Crimson. He’s released 20 solo albums and worke...
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At 65 (soon to be 66), singer Ozzy Osbourne shows no signs of slowing down. He’s just issued Memoirs of a Madman, a collection of classic music videos, unreleased and out-of-print live performances and interviews from his solo ...
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In the ‘80s, Minneapolis was home to plenty of great bands like the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Prince and Soul Asylum. Although the Jayhawks first emerged from that scene, the group played a different style of music with tunes st...
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Country singer-songwriter Frankie Ballard has just embarked on his first headlining run, dubbed the Light ’Em Up Tour. Expect to hear hits like the anthem “Helluva Life” and his latest single “Sunshine & Whiskey,” the title...
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For years, singer-songwriter Chris Allen led Rosavelt, a Cleveland, Ohio-based band that drew equally from Uncle Tupelo and from Tom Petty. The group split up in 2004 after a good long run (it would eventually reunite a few yea...