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Icons in the hardcore world, Fugazi never officially broke up. Rather, the Washington D.C. group just stopped playing. In the wake of the apparent dissolution, drummer Brendan Canty began touring and recording with Husker Du’s ...
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In the early ’90s, when San Diego was sometimes called “the next Seattle,” the fiercely independent combo Trumans Water more than held its own in a scene overflowing with talent and promise. In 1994, that band...
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A band that’s on the verge of blowing up, Los Angeles-based Dead Sara got a break when Muse drummer Dominic Howard talked about how much he liked the band’s hard-driving single “The Weatherman” during a radio interview. Dead Sa...
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A few years back, a group of Nashville session players formed a band they called the SteelDrivers and started to play an inventive mix of bluegrass and soul. They began by playing a VFW Hall in Franklin, Tennessee, but as buzz ...
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The adage “less is more” might not have applied to any of the projects with which guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has been associated in the past. For the past decade or so, the guy made some serious noise with both At the Drive...
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For 50 years now, The Chieftains have been the standard-bearer of Irish folk music and have played venues throughout the world. They’ve been popular in the states since the early ’70s, but the band isn’t stuck in the past. It r...
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Daedelus (Alfred Darlington) has been making electronic music for over a decade now. While he hasn’t reached the level of popularity of other electronic dance music artists such as Skrillex or Bass Nectar, he’s one of the scene...
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In addition to being the seventh track on Richard Thompson‘s new CD, Electric (out February 5 on New West Records), “Where’s Home?” is also an appropriate question for the musician Rolling Stone magazine appropriately cal...
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Ken Stringfellow has had a terrific run with The Posies, the power-pop band that he founded with fellow singer-songwriter Jon Auer in 1986. But Stringfellow, who now lives in Paris, also has had a terrific solo career and is to...
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Over the summer, Thursday singer Geoff Rickly revealed a new side to his musical repertoire and performed on the Warped Tour “Acoustic Basement” stage, a new component to the traveling festival known for its emo and screamo act...