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Earlier this year, 955 Dreams Inc. launched the Android version of Band of the Day, a popular app that allows music fans to check out up-and-coming bands. The same company is behind Applauze, an app designed to help consumers f...
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Though it did deliver a serious blow that temporarily put its Preservation Hall home out of commission, not even Hurricane Katrina could knock out the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The group that plays a distinctive style of jaz...
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An inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Mary Chapin Carpenter has sold some 13 million albums over the course of her career and recently won an Emmy award for her work on Nashville Public Television’s “No...
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Maná’s Alex González, Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs’ Señor Flavio and A.N.I.M.A.L.’s Andrés Giménez finally put together their new heavy metal band De La Tierra. Eight years ago, Giménez and Kisser started...
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Ten years ago, the emo-punk band Story of the Year delivered its breakthrough album, Page Avenue. Alternating between screaming and singing, Dan Marsala sang about teen angst with as much conviction as anyone out there. The St....
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Jam band Carbon Leaf has eclipsed the 20-year mark and shows no signs of letting up. In fact, the group released two albums this year. The first, Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle, is a Celtic-influenced collection of tunes and the f...
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Saxon is touring the US right now and has a lot of festivals to hit in Europe next year in support of their album, Sacrifice. You can read more about the heavy metal band’s 40-year-run in a recent Whopperjaw interview wit...
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British DJ Flux Pavilion’s latest album, Blow the Roof Off, is a terrific collection of hip-hop and techno beats. It starts with a funky bass riff before giving way to more stereotypical dubstep beats that squeak and sputter on...
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An introspective album about change and personal growth, Sunday Morning Record, The Band of Heathens’ fourth studio album is its most personal yet. It starts out with a reflective ballad about their hometown (“Texas”) and then ...
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AFI released its hardcore-inspired debut Answer That and Stay Fashionable in 1995. Nearly 20 years later, the band’s sound has shifted, veering toward Goth-punk. Thanks to getting some good exposure on MTV in the ‘00s, the band...