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InterviewKING JAMES & THE SPECIAL MEN BRING THEIR NEW ORLEANS VIBE TO DEBUT ALBUM
For most bands, recording a debut album is a bit of a rookie exercise. A group of musicians still finding their sound, feeling out their chemistry tog...
Photo GalleryGENE WEEN DOES BILLY JOEL AT THE KIRBY CENTER
Photos by Sam Watson WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Aaron Freeman, aka Gene Ween, brought his "Geen Ween Does Billy Joel" show to the F.M. Kirby Center in Wil...
Photo GalleryXPONENTIAL FEST PHOTOS: WILCO, SPOON, STRAND OF OAKS, PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
Photos by Sam Watson CAMDEN, N.J. — Some of the brightest lights in indie and Americana converged on the BB&T Pavilion just over the river from...
InterviewKIM RANCOURT TALKS SOLO DEBUT, LOU REED ARCHIVE AND NEW YORK ALBUMS
Coming of age in Michigan in the early ’70s as Iggy and the Stooges pumped out the primal soundtrack, relocating to New York City in time to take in t...
Photo GalleryPROLIFIC CONOR OBERST BRINGS ‘SALUTATIONS’ AND MORE TO KIRBY CENTER
Photos by Alex Seeley 'WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The prolific singer/songwriter and Bright Eyes namesake Conor Oberst and his band, featuring members of ...
Concert ReviewSLAYER, LAMB OF GOD & BEHEMOTH CONQUER PHILADELPHIA
Photos and review by Alex Seeley PHILADELPHIA — Even a thunderstorm couldn’t stop the sold-out crowd from enjoying a night of heavy metal last Sund...
InterviewNICOLE ATKINS GOES TO NEPTUNE AND BACK ON ‘GOODNIGHT RHONDA LEE’
The sound of the Jersey Shore doesn’t begin and end with Bruce Springsteen. Just ask singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins. Like the Boss, she takes ‘60s in...
Photo GalleryBRIGGS FARM BLUES FESTIVAL TURNS 20
Photos by Alex Seeley NESCOPECK, Pa. — Thousands of fans returned to the sprawling site of the Briggs Farm Blues Festival for an annual weekend of ...
Photo GalleryBILLY STRINGS & TROUT STEAK REVIVAL DELIGHT AMERICANA FANS AT KIRBY CENTER
Photos by Sam Watson WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The F.M. Kirby Center's Live From The Chandelier Lobby Series continued July 13 with a performance by stan...
InterviewNEW MASTERSOUNDS BRING THE FUNK TO PEACH FROM ACROSS THE POND
Jazz-funk guitarist and New Mastersounds founder and frontman Eddie Roberts is 46 years old. And the native of Wales had never really listened to t...
InterviewIF YOU GO TO SEE VANESSA COLLIER, ‘BE PREPARED TO FEEL SOMETHING’
For Vanessa Collier, a live show is more than a set delivered by a performer to an audience. No, for the Maryland-based singer and saxophone player, i...
InterviewAKINA ADDERLEY CONTINUES FAMILY LEGACY, REMEMBERS LUTHER VANDROSS
Originally from New York, r&b chanteuse Akina Adderley relocated to Austin, Texas, where she now fronts the Vintage Playboys. Though steeped in so...