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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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The Boulder-based electronic/jam duo Big Gigantic — saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken — draw from a bit of everything. Their music marries funk, jazz, hip-hop and electronica. The duo has started writ...
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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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It’s not hard to see the 2010 Barenaked Ladies’ album All In Good Time as one which captures the sound and scenery of a band reeling somewhat from the departure of a key founding member and working song by song to figure out th...
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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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Having recently wrapped up a stint touring on the annual Under The Sun tour, Vertical Horizon has just dropped its sixth studio album, Echoes From The Underground. Funded via fan contributions with a PledgeMusic campaign, the p...
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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...