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Singer Aaron Lewis is best known as the front man of the hard rock act Staind, which has had a number of huge radio hits throughout the ’00s. With his new album, The Road, he’s wholeheartedly embraced country music. We recently...
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Just out on DVD, director Gorman Bechard’s Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements (2011) is a terrific documentary chronicling the trials and tribulations of the Replacements, one of post-punk’s most notorious bands. ...
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Singer Olivia Newton-John has amassed some big numbers: 40 years in the music biz, 100 million albums sold and four Grammy Awards awards. She’s also picked up an Emmy and received numerous People’s Choice, Billboard, Coun...
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Ten years ago, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals formed ten years ago in Waitsfield, Vermont and immediately found a following with jam band enthusiasts. The band eventually caught on with the country crowd, too, and Potter’s due...
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Since performing their new single “Same Love” on Ellen, the hip-hop group Macklemore & Ryan Lewis has seen its popularity escalate. The two white dudes from Seattle have been selling out shows on tour in support of The Heis...
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Given that most bands are lucky to celebrate a 10-year anniversary, it’s remarkable that the Moody Blues are still around to mark the 45th anniversary of Days of Future Passed, a concept album that put the band on the British p...
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A jazz guitarist who has won over rock and jam band fans with his innovative style of playing (he simultaneously plays lead and rhythm guitar and bass on his 7-string instrument), Charlie Hunter has been touring and recording w...
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You’d be hard pressed to find a more popular band north of the border than Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip, who started topping the charts shortly after forming in 1983. The band has just issued Now for Plan A, its first st...
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If you haven’t seen Neil Young play with Crazy Horse, you simply haven’t seen Neil Young. The garage rock band that has backed him off and on since 1969 takes the classic rocker to another level. Young and Crazy Horse returned ...
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Singer-guitarist Holly Golightly got her start in the early ’90s with Billy Childish’s Thee Headcoatees, and the garage rocker hasn’t looked back. She now records and tours as with the Brokeoffs (the backing “band” is really ju...