UPSTATE IS ‘MORE GENUINELY US’ ON FOURTH LP ‘ABALONE’
The indie folk band Upstate has been together in one form or another for 15 years, but to hear the group’s members tell the story, the outfit is only now fully becoming its true self. For starters...
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FOR MEG LUI, ‘INSTANT VALIDATION’ TOOK YEARS TO FIND
If you check out Meg Lui’s debut album “Instant Validation" and struggle to assign it a genre, you’re in good company: the artist herself has also given up trying to pull of that feat. “I think so...
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THE ‘NATURAL EVOLUTION’ OF RUBY ALEXANDER
Ruby Alexander’s two new songs, “Undertow,” released today, and “All This Time Together,” which she shared in July, come just two years after her debut recordings, but they might as well be landing f...
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LEON III EMBRACES ITS LIVE SOUND ON FOURTH ALBUM
Leon III (that’s Leon The Third, not Leon Three), a psychedelic band that cites classic influences like Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead but bears just as much sonic resemblance to the alt-country an...
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DALE CROVER PLAYS NEIL YOUNG — AGAIN — ON SOLO EP
Dale Crover has been behind the drum kit for the Melvins for more than 40 years, but superfans know he was briefly the band’s bassist, played guitar and sang when the group spoofed Kiss and has put o...
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STEVE HACKETT & STEVE ROTHERY SAIL THE SIX-STRING SEAS
Steve Rothery, one of progressive rock’s most revered guitarists, recalls preforming with his hero turned friend and collaborator Steve Hackett during one of the latter’s Genesis Revisited concerts a...
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PANSY DIVISION: ‘THERE’S STILL A NEED FOR A BAND LIKE OURS’
When Jon Ginoli and Chris Freeman started Pansy Division in 1991, the “queercore” band hoped that society would progress to the point where they would be obsolete. “I remember early, like maybe in...
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ELI ‘PAPERBOY’ REED ON NEW RECORD WITH SWAMP DOGG, GRAND OLE OPRY AND POP COUNTRY
Eli "Paperboy" Reed's journey has taken him from his hometown of Brookline, Mass., to Clarksdale to the south side of Chicago and back to the Boston area. At an early age, he won over hardened bluesm...
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IMOGEN VALENTINE BLENDS HYPERPOP AND NOSTALGIA ON ‘SAME FONT DIFFERENT MAN’
A girls’ night out can lead to a hangover or two, but for the dream pop singer-songwriter Imogen Valentine, the aftermath was a new song, “Same Font Different Man.” The New York-via-London artist rel...
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RUTHIE FOSTER EMBRACES THE POWER OF ‘YES’ ON NEW ALBUM
Ruthie Foster played in the US Navy band, sang with the Allman Brothers and has performed at the top blues festivals in the country. She was born and raised in Texas, lived in New York City and moved...
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