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Known for his witty parodies, “Weird Al” Yankovic has been skewering classic pop and rock songs for just about 40 years now. With his latest album, last year’s Mandatory Fun, he turns Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” ...
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An accomplished actor, producer and singer, Alan Doyle is best known as a member of Newfoundland’s Great Big Sea. Earlier this year, he released his second solo album, So Let’s Go, an album that distills Doyle’s tradition...
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After a five-year gap between albums, veteran singer-songwriter James McMurtry has finally issued a new studio release, Complicated Game. “Back before Napster and Spotify, we toured to promote record sales,” McMurtry says in a ...
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2.0, the new album from producer extraordinaire Big Data (Alan Wilkis), features guest appearances from Twin Shadow, Rivers Cuomo, White Sea, Kimbra, Jamie Lidell and many more. The electronic artist saw major success in 2014 w...
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Singer-guitarist Matthew E. White has racked up a good number of accolades in a short amount of time including being named a Rolling Stone “Artist to Watch.” He just issued his new album, Fresh Blood, on Domino Records. I...
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When it comes to underground metal, no one makes for a better spokesman than Max Cavalera. Formerly of Sepultura, Cavalera fronts Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy, a band he formed with his brother Igor, also a Sepultura alum. C...
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Nearly two decades in the making, The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about the musicians who played on records by the likes of Nancy Sinatra, Bobby Vee, The Partridge Family, The Mamas & the Papas, The Carpenters, The 5th Dim...
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"We try to be as honest as possible," says Ewert and the Two Red Dragons singer Ewert Sundja about making music. "We don’t set out to make quiet music with intensity. It has to be a natural process of getting to the end. "
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While on the road with his band, Fun., guitarist Jack Antonoff began writing some songs for a solo project that he called Bleachers. He didn’t tell anyone about the songs until he released the first single, “I Wanna Get B...
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The Gaslight Anthem quickly became critics’ darlings as it delivered albums such as 2008’s The ’59 Sound and 2010’s American Slang. On 2014’s Get Hurt, which was produced by Brit Mike Crossey (Foals, Arc...