VERNON REID TALKS NEW SOLO ALBUM, OZZY’S LAST SHOW AND THE LANDSCAPE OF BLACK ROCK MUSICIANS
Vernon Reid is talking about his solo album, but you wouldn't know it as he rattles off name after name of collaborators, peers and influential forefathers. The founding guitarist of the groundbreakin...
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EMMA SWIFT’S FIRST ORIGINAL ALBUM A VULNERABLE JOURNEY POST-NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
The term "nervous breakdown" is often thrown around in conversation. But for the Nashville-based singer-songwriter, it means something deeper. Something real. "What I'm talking about is a psychotic...
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POWER METAL PIONEERS HELLOWEEN FLYING HIGH WITH ‘GIANTS & MONSTERS’
For Helloween, it's all in the numbers: One (where the German power metal band's previous album landed on the charts). Seven (the number of members in the reconstituted lineup). Forty (the number of y...
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RICHIE CAVALERA AND INCITE EMBRACE ‘SAVAGE’ NEW ALBUM
Richie Cavalera is a mild-mannered enough guy, but cross the Incite frontman and you might end up in one of his songs. "I'm not a like a confrontational person in real life. Music and my lyrics are...
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RISING PHILLY BAND SNACKTIME BRINGS LOVE OF FOOD AND SPORTS TO THE TABLE
Short of the Phillie Phanatic joining, it's hard to imagine Snacktime being any more of a Philadelphia band. They've played 76ers halftime shows and Phils baseball games and were the house band for Ea...
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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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