RICH ROBINSON ‘HAVING FUN’ AGAIN WITH MAGPIE SALUTE
It was no secret that the final years of The Black Crowes’ storied run were fraught with tension. Frontman Chris Robinson wanted to continue to push the music into an open-ended, Grateful Dead-inspire...
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STEVE KIMOCK ON FINDING THE SOUNDS OF ‘SATELLITE CITY’ AND WORKING WITH LESLIE MENDELSON AND THE NATIONAL
Anyone who has followed the career of guitarist Steve Kimock won’t be surprised that his new album, “Satellite City,” is full of virtuosic, tasteful playing. But they might be caught off guard by the ...
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MISTY MOUNTAIN AND SPECIAL GUESTS TO CONJURE LED ZEPPELIN AT RIVER STREET JAZZ CAFE
Ten years ago, a group of young musicians, some of them not even young enough to vote, rent a car or get into an R-rated movie unaccompanied, played a sold-out show at the River Street Jazz Cafe in Wi...
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NO WIGS, NO COSTUMES, ALL MUSICIANSHIP: FAB FAUX RECREATES THE BEATLES AT KIRBY CENTER
Concertgoers who visit the F.M. Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre on Saturday will be treated to a note-perfect recreation of the music of The Beatles, down to every guitar lick, bass line, drum fill and o...
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CHRIS BARRON TAKES SOLO SPIN WITH ‘ANGELS AND ONE-ARMED JUGGLERS’
Spin Doctors frontman Chris Barron intended his new solo album, “Angels and One-Armed Jugglers” — out Friday, Oct. 20 — to be a relatively stripped-down affair, maybe vocals and acoustic guitar and no...
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DEL McCOURY RECALLS PENNSYLVANIA ROOTS AHEAD OF BUCKNELL PERFORMANCE
When bluegrass icon Del McCoury and his sons’ five-piece band take the stage at the Weis Center on the campus of Bucknell University Saturday night, 78-year-old Del is going to feel very much at home....
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AS AMERICAN BUFFALO GHOST, SEAN FLYNN FOLLOWS NEW PATH
When Sean Flynn decided to follow a new musical direction, leaving behind the post-hardcore and punk of bands like Those Clever Foxes and Old Charades in favor of Americana, he wasn't about to half as...
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J. ALAN SCHNEIDER PREMIERES ‘THE STATE LINE’
For indie-folk musician J. Alan Schneider, the universal struggle for control has served as both a cause of anxiety and, on his upcoming EP, "On Precipice," an inspiration. The songs on the EP, which ...
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COAL MINOR CANARY: DAVID HAGE GOES BEYOND ACOUSTIC FOLK GENRE ON DEBUT EP
It sounds like an apocryphal legend, but it’s true. In the heyday of the coal mining industry, workers would bring caged canaries into the mines. More sensitive to poisonous gases than humans, the bir...
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TONY HALCHAK TRACES HIS NEPA ROOTS ON ‘HARVEST SONGS’
When Tony Halchak began putting together his new EP, “Harvest Songs,” he had a theme in mind: a family displaced from its longtime hometown, maybe living in the Rust Belt, maybe a casualty of of the f...
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