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A former metalhead who embraced electronic music after attending a rave in San Francisco in the ‘90s, Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) is one of the biggest acts in the world of electronic dance music. Notorious for his live show, whi...
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On a recent radio broadcast, punk rocker Henry Rollins played a wild mix of music that included everything from Ornette Coleman and Jimi Hendrix to Minutemen and the Buzzcocks, showing off his incredible depth when it comes to ...
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Resting at his Nashville home for a 12-hour break after a show in Las Vegas, country singer-guitarist Eric Church sounds a little hoarse. “I caught a cold out in Vegas of all places, so I’m trying to regroup,” he says matter-of...
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The guys in the indie rock troupe OK Go found ways to express their creativity even before they turned to the wildly original music videos for which they’re now known. Singer-guitarist Damian Kulash, bassist Tim Nordwind, drumm...
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A favorite of President Obama, who asked her to play at his Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2009, jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding surprised everyone when she won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2011. The award-winning a...
Books
An American poet and journalist, Quincy Troupe has a long, distinguished career. In addition to writing several poems that have been anthologized, Troupe has authored two books about Miles Davis. He penned Davis’s autobiography...
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The Bros. Landreth, a Canadian roots rock group that features siblings Joey and David Landreth, holed up in a straw-bale house last year in the dead of winter to record their new album Let It Lie. Somehow they overcame the elem...
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Since forming in 2011, the Scottish synth-pop band CHVRCHES (pronounced “churches”) has steadily risen in popularity. The group — singer-keyboardist Lauren Mayberry guitarist-keyboardist Iain Cook and keyboardist Ma...
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If you were to try to find a vinyl copy of Coheed and Cambria’s second album, 2003’s In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, you’d have a hard time. But the band recently issued a remastered version of the disc on vinyl in three...
Flicks
The Film Society of Lincoln Center recently recognized John Waters. Now more “insider” than “outsider,” the cult filmmaker finds himself at a curious crossroads. He’s currently touring the country with his monologue, “This Filt...