ARCADE FIRE GOES SMALL WITH BIG RESULTS ON ‘PINK ELEPHANT’
It had been since 2013’s “Reflektor” that Arcade Fire recorded an album with no skippable tracks -- “Everything Now” was mostly forgettable, and “We,” from 2022, came close but was done in by some plo...
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THE HEAD AND THE HEART: ‘WE DID IT OURSELVES BEFORE, SO WHY CAN’T WE DO IT AGAIN?’
To move forward, The Head and The Heart had to go backwards. Back to how they worked when they were a scrappy young crew emerging from open-mic nights in Seattle: doing it by -- and for -- themselves....
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WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL GOES ORGANIC: ‘IT’S JUST ALWAYS BEEN MY KIND OF THING’
When Adam Andrzejewski (né McIlwee) makes new music, he tries to avoid listening to things that might influence his work. So when he was creating last year's "Midnight at the Castle Moorlands," a self...
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FOR DISPATCH, COLLABORATIONS ARE AT THE FORE OF NEW ALBUM AND TOUR
Young bands don't have to dig too deep to find motivation. But when a group has been around for a while -- nearly 30 years in the case of Boston-area indie roots rock outfit Dispatch -- inspiration hi...
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RISING GUITARIST BELLA RAYNE: ‘I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT I’D BE DOING ANY OF THIS RIGHT NOW’
Not too long ago, Bella Rayne was telling her Deadhead parents, "I'll never like the Grateful Dead and you can't make me like it." Now the 18-year-old Northern California guitarist can be found perfor...
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LEFTOVER SALMON STILL PARTYING AFTER 35 YEARS
Fans of Leftover Salmon who have watched the band pushing, pulling and feeding off each other on stage for the past 35 years might be surprised to learn that their studio albums have been a more isola...
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TRACY BONHAM FINDS POWER AND BEAUTY IN RENEWAL
"I feel like everyone needs a redo," says Tracy Bonham. The eclectic, classically trained musician known for her 1996 alternative rock hit "Mother Mother," is responding to a question about "Jumpin...
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KULA SHAKER: ‘WE FELT LIKE WE WERE THE SPIRITUAL DISRUPTORS’
Kula Shaker, the psychedelic, mystical band to emerge out of the UK in the mid-1990s, was a counterbalance to the stadium-ready anthems that were dominating Britain at the time. It's taken nearly 30 y...
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SUNFLOWER BEAN BRINGS ROCK SWAGGER TO THE WARSAW
Photos by Bobby Nicholas III Sunflower Bean made last Thursday night's show at The Warsaw in Brooklyn, announced as its only New York City performance of the year, count. From the tone-setting rock...
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‘ILEANA’S SMILE,’ A FILM THAT FINDS LIGHT IN A LANDFILL, RAISES FUNDS FOR SCHOOL IN NICARAGUA
"Ileana's Smile," the true story of a community living in a garbage dump in Nicaragua, is certainly not light summer fare. But the documentary, framed around the life of a little girl named Ileana, do...
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