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Former Rolling Stone editor and renowned rock writer Dave Marsh once aptly described singer Joan Jett as “the female Chuck Berry.” Jett’s career began with the punk-y all-girl rock combo the Runaways, and she capitalized on tha...
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Siblings don’t always get along. And siblings in bands really don’t get along. But that’s not been the case for the indie pop act Tegan and Sara. The Canadian group formed some 15 years ago and has been going strong ever since....
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Formed in Olympia, Washington in 1990, Bikini Kill didn’t sell many records. But the abrasive punk rock band did jumpstart the riot grrrl movement, paving the way for acts like Sleater-Kinney to become underground sensations. B...
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A nine-person band devoted exclusively to playing original holiday songs, the Ohio City Singers started out as an informal collective of musicians. It’s slowly emerged into a festive enterprise. This year in addition to playing...
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Not just another snotty punk band, NOFX isn’t your average melodic hardcore group. These guys can write some great songs — as is evidenced on the terrific 2004 comp The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us). Their latest single, ...
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Producer T-Bone Burnett, the mastermind behind the bluegrass soundtrack to the Coen Brothers’ 2000 film O Brother Where Art Thou, reunited with the directing duo to work on their new film Inside Llewyn Davis, a fictional accoun...
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After playing a few dates last year in Spain, The Dream Syndicate, the L.A.-based garage/punk rock act fronted by singer-guitarist Steve Wynn, has booked a handful of dates in the US. Those dates will mark The Dream Syndicate’s...
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Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur made quite an impression with his 2000 full-length debut Come to Where I’m From. One of the year’s best reviewed albums, it ended up on a number of Top 10 lists. The incredibly prolific Arthur, a...
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On last year’s Synthetica, the Canadian synth pop band Metric explored the postmodern condition in songs essentially about the fine line between what’s real and what’s not. Guitarist James Shaw phoned in from a tour stop in Vir...
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When he was still in middle school, Ed Kowalczyk formed the spiritually-inspired rock act Live. The group would go to sell millions of albums in the ’90s before it came to an ugly end in 2009 and band members filed a lawsuit ag...