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Concert Recaps
At the start of this year’s incarnation of Lollapalooza, the four-day music fest that takes place annually at Chicago’s Grant Park, we caught the tail end of a set by the UK punk band Slaves. Undeterred by the sparsely filled v...
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"We search music that is much further afield, and that’s where we find our most exciting ideas," says The National's Bryce Dessner about being inspired by the diverse artists featured as part of MusicNOW and the inaugural Homec...
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"My whole shtick is to write about wherever I am in life," says country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert about what she's trying to do with her music and where she finds inspiration.
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"You face the same problems every time you write a song, more or less," says Vetusta Morla guitarist and keyboardist Juanma Latorre. "We tried to solve them in a different way."
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"We like to work when we’re moving," Ryan Winnen says about writing, recording and releasing COIN songs throughout the year.
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"It can go from dreamy to metal to full-on pop," says Starset singer Dustin Bates. "It’s fun to do that but it hurts us in terms of the industry finding a pocket for us."
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"I’m always just looking for a more honest expression of myself, which is what music has always been," says singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen.
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"Each song is its own thing," says Ben Miller. "When I listen to music, I don’t think of genres or anything like that. I’m in love with the idea of a song."
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"I have this perspective that you need to go through periods of struggle to illuminate the periods of grace," says Yoke Lore's Adrian Galvin.