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When her mother took ill a few years ago, singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke decided to become her caretaker. That meant she couldn’t tour and record new material. And yet, she didn’t turn her creativity completely off. She took ...
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Thanks to some great exposure on MTV, Dashboard Confessional was a hugely popular alternative band of the 2000s even selling out Madison Square Garden on its last full band tour. Now, the group has reunited for a summer tour th...
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Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell has said that he wouldn’t have become the musician he is if he hadn’t grown up in Northern Alabama. Isbell, who played with the Drive-By Truckers before going solo a few years back, announced that...
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My Morning Jacket has just announced a long-term philanthropy effort called The Waterfall Project. Named after their new The Waterfall album, the project has been established to house the band’s ongoing cause-related work. The ...
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The Louisiana act Feufollet has retooled its sound into something it calls “Cajun swamp-pop” for its new album. On Two Universes, the group explores a melting pot sound that meshes Cajun, classic country, indie rock...
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Singer-songwriter Freedy Johnston received some serious airplay on commercial radio when his catchy single “Bad Reputation” became a big hit in the ‘90s. In the wake of that success, the Farrelly Brothers used several of his tu...
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When singer-guitarist Pat McGee recently listened to some albums by James Taylor, Jackson Browne and Crosby, Stills, and Nash on vinyl, he was inspired to try to record an album that sounded like those classics and was based on...
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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 ...