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The Jayhawks
The Jayhawks
The Jayhawks

In the ‘80s, Minneapolis was home to plenty of great bands like the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, Prince and Soul Asylum. Although the Jayhawks first emerged from that scene, the group played a different style of music with tunes st...

 
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Frankie Ballard
Frankie Ballard
Frankie Ballard

Country singer-songwriter Frankie Ballard has just embarked on his first headlining run, dubbed the Light ’Em Up Tour. Expect to hear hits like the anthem “Helluva Life” and his latest single “Sunshine & Whiskey,” the title...

 
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Chris Allen
Chris Allen
Chris Allen

For years, singer-songwriter Chris Allen led Rosavelt, a Cleveland, Ohio-based band that drew equally from Uncle Tupelo and from Tom Petty. The group split up in 2004 after a good long run (it would eventually reunite a few yea...

 
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Bassnectar
Bassnectar
Bassnectar
 

Bassnectar: Immersed in positivity

 
October 8, 2014



A former metalhead who embraced electronic music after attending a rave in San Francisco in the ‘90s, Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) is one of the biggest acts in the world of electronic dance music. Notorious for his live show, whi...

 
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Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins
 

Henry Rollins: The voice of choice

 
October 6, 2014



On a recent radio broadcast, punk rocker Henry Rollins played a wild mix of music that included everything from Ornette Coleman and Jimi Hendrix to Minutemen and the Buzzcocks, showing off his incredible depth when it comes to ...

 
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Eric Church
Eric Church
Eric Church
 

Eric Church: On the record

 
October 2, 2014



Resting at his Nashville home for a 12-hour break after a show in Las Vegas, country singer-guitarist Eric Church sounds a little hoarse. “I caught a cold out in Vegas of all places, so I’m trying to regroup,” he says matter-of...

 
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OK Go photo by Zen Sekizawa
OK Go photo by Zen Sekizawa
OK Go photo by Zen Sekizawa
 

OK Go: Video made the radio star

 
October 1, 2014



The guys in the indie rock troupe OK Go found ways to express their creativity even before they turned to the wildly original music videos for which they’re now known. Singer-guitarist Damian Kulash, bassist Tim Nordwind, drumm...

 
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Esperanza Spalding by Johann Sauty
Esperanza Spalding by Johann Sauty
Esperanza Spalding by Johann Sauty
 

Esperanza Spalding: Anything can happen

 
September 30, 2014



A favorite of President Obama, who asked her to play at his Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2009, jazz singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding surprised everyone when she won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 2011. The award-winning a...

 
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The Bros. Landreth photo by Mike Latschislaw
The Bros. Landreth photo by Mike Latschislaw
The Bros. Landreth photo by Mike Latschislaw

The Bros. Landreth, a Canadian roots rock group that features siblings Joey and David Landreth, holed up in a straw-bale house last year in the dead of winter to record their new album Let It Lie. Somehow they overcame the elem...

 
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Coheed and Cambria photo by LIndsey Byrnes
Coheed and Cambria photo by LIndsey Byrnes
Coheed and Cambria photo by LIndsey Byrnes
 

Coheed and Cambria: The secret is out

 
September 23, 2014



If you were to try to find a vinyl copy of Coheed and Cambria’s second album, 2003’s In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3, you’d have a hard time. But the band recently issued a remastered version of the disc on vinyl in three...