THE BOX TOPS ARE STILL ‘SOUL DEEP’ AFTER ALEX CHILTON’S PASSING
When The Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton -- also legendary for fronting Big Star -- died in 2010, it seemed The Box Tops had also been laid to rest. "It destroyed me and I just was determined not to...
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JOE RUSSO BRINGS EAST COAST ATTITUDE TO GRATEFUL DEAD SONGBOOK
When New Jersey metalhead Joe Russo was in high school, he quit a band because it played Grateful Dead songs. But starting in his 30s, he'd come to love the iconic San Francisco group's music as a ke...
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FROM ‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’ TO SIT-INS WITH DEREK TRUCKS: BRANDON ‘TAZ’ NEIDERAUER’S SURREAL JOURNEY
If you were one of the 9.6 million people who tuned into NBC on Easter night to watch "Jesus Christ Superstar," the first person you saw was not John Legend or Alice Cooper or Sara Bareilles. It wasn'...
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PEACH FEST A FAMILY HOMECOMING OF SORTS FOR LEFTOVER SALMON
This year’s Peach Festival is shaping up as a family reunion for Andy Thorn of Leftover Salmon. When the Colorado bluegrass-based sextet makes its debut Peach appearance during the July 19-22 festi...
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NATIONAL RESERVE BRINGS AMERICANA ROCK SOUND TO BRIGGS FARM BLUES FESTIVAL
The National Reserve founder and frontman Sean Walsh abruptly interrupted fellow guitarist and bandmate Jon Ladeau during a revealing recent interview about the Brooklyn-based band’s upcoming two-day ...
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FOR GOMEZ, DEBUT ‘BRING IT ON’ WAS ‘SOMETHING THAT’S JUST US’
By 1998, Oasis were “bigger than f---ing God,” according to Noel Gallagher, and the Britpop giant’s chief rival, Blur, wasn’t that far behind, with its anthemic “Song 2” making an inescapable noise wo...
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DUSTIN DOUGLAS & THE ELECTRIC GENTLEMEN ‘BREAK IT DOWN’ ON ADVENTUROUS NEW ALBUM (SONG PREMIERE)
With a full-length debut and a blues EP under their belt, Dustin Douglas & the Electric Gentlemen return this week with their sophomore full-length album, "Break It Down." The album finds the band...
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PHILADELPHIA’S ROSU LUP FINDS KINDRED SPIRITS AS IT EXPANDS INDIE FOLK SOUND
Rosu Lup, a group that has toured in support of acts like The Districts and Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick, has been featured by iconic Philadelphia radio station WXPN and is working on a new album with a colla...
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WOODY GUTHRIE’S LEGACY LIVES ON IN HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
More than fifty tears after his passing, Woody Guthrie's legacy continues to touch many corners of American life, whether in the songs of folk troubadours like Bob Dylan or in the various social justi...
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ROSARY GUILD: ‘IT’S PRETTY, BUT IT CAN GET SCARY’
Rosary Guild's sound is cinematic, expansive — big. But at its core, the Wilkes-Barre group comes from a place of isolation. The isolation of growing up in the "boonies," as singer, songwriter and gu...
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