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When Saintseneca inked a deal with ANTI- Records, the indie folk band had already started to record what would become its next album, Dark Arc. But with some assistance from the label, the group was able to finish the album wit...
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Folk music icon Arlo Guthrie has reached a milestone, namely the 50th anniversary of the event that inspired “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” his rambling folk ditty about how dumping some garbage got him in a ...
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With her studio album, Liberman, singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton takes a musical departure. The sparse album is a change of pace from the poppy material she’s written and recorded in the past. Fans were given a sneak peak of ...
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When Green Day performed at House of Blues around the Rock Hall inductions earlier this year, the band recruited singer-guitarist Jesse Malin to open the show. He started things off with a 30-minute set that drew mostly from Ne...
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Huntertones’ trumpet player Jon Lampley grew up in the Akron suburb of Tallmadge. He attended the Ohio State University, playing sousaphone in the Best Damn Band in the land. While at OSU, he also joined the jam band O.A.R. and...
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New York performer and record producer Martin Bisi has worked with cutting-edge acts from a variety of musical genres: indie, punk, avant garde, noire/cabaret rock and electronic. At a recording studio he started in 1981 in Bro...
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Formed nearly ten years ago in Tallahassee, punk rockers Mayday Parade have always had a DIY work ethic. The band sold some 50,000 copies of its debut EP, Tales Told by Dead Friends, before inking a deal with Fearless Records (...
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Drawing from New Orleans jazz, Memphis soul and musical theatre, Davina and The Vagabonds defies categorization. Singer/pianist Davina Sowers has rightly drawn comparisons to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday and Betty ...
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"It’s a growing process," says Ryan Mahan about touring and working toward the next Algiers album. "We’ve been using the live setting to develop as a band and introduce things that point toward the future."
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A classically trained musician, Anton “Zedd” Zaslavski has become one of the world’s best-known DJs and music producers. His two studio albums — 2012’s Clarity and this year’s True Colors — have sold by the truckloads and deliv...