STEVE KIMOCK REFLECTS ON HIS LIFE-LONG MUSICAL JOURNEY IN ADVANCE OF ARDMORE PERFORMANCE
I’m standing outside the Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, Pa., back on December 5, 2012, moments before Steve Kimock and his band were to take the stage. A man purporting to be homeless is pa...
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FLUX CAPACITOR TALKS SUPERSTITIONS AND MYSTERY GUESTS BEFORE SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN (VIDEOS)
Highway 81 Revisited caught up with the guys of Flux Capacitor before their first appearance at Susquehanna Breakdown at Montage Mountain, Scranton, Pa. Since 2007, the Tri State Indie Jam Band of the...
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DRIFTWOOD BRINGS ROCKIN’ BLUEGRASS TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN
It would be easy to put Driftwood into a bluegrass category, but that isn’t really what the group does. It’s kind of rock ‘n’ roll meets fiddles. “From the Binghamton, New York music scene comes Drift...
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COAL TOWN ROUNDERS WILL SEE YOU AT THE BREAKDOWN FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR
Photos by Jim Gavenus This is the story of a few dudes, a banjo and the man in the yellow hat. Sort of. Christopher Kearney (the man in the hat) and some buddies that attended the same high scho...
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JAVIER ESCOVEDO: AN UNSUNG PUNK ROCK HERO
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Javier Escovedo is an unsung hero of punk rock. Not only that, but he hails from a family of musicians that includes older brothers Pete, Coke and Alejandro, younger brothe...
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LARRY KEEL TALKS CABINET, KELLER AND FISHING LEADING UP TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN
While flat-picking his steel string guitar and performing “Culpepper Woodchuck” next to a campfire at The Festy music festival in his home state of Virginia a few years back, Larry Keel reached the po...
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SXSW INTERVIEW: JOCELYN and CHRIS ARNDT
Siblings Jocelyn and Chris Arndt are 21 and 19 years old, respectively. They wear their old-school influences on their sleeves and making those influences sound timeless. “Edges,” their new album, is ...
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IN-DEMAND DRUMMER ALLISON MILLER BRINGS BOOM-TIC-BOOM TO BLOOMSBURG
A recent Sunday morning turned a little hectic for drummer Allison Miller when her 2-year-old daughter Josie became fidgety as Miller answered the phone for an interview. It was the day before Miller ...
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ELECTRONIC ARTIST QUOTH DEBUTS NEW TRACK WITH KATIE KELLY, TALKS PRINCE IN LEAD-UP TO ALBUM RELEASE (EXCLUSIVE)
For many of us, the only time we’ve heard the word “quoth” is in Edgar Allan Poe’s famous work “The Raven.” But there’s another artist making some noise with the word, using it as his performing name....
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STARGAZER LILIES TALK ’60s-MEETS-’90s SOUND and NEPA MUSIC SCENE AT SXSW
The evening had grown chilly at the Grackle in Austin, where the Stargazer Lilies spoke to me shortly before their show. The Poconos-based outfit was founded in 2011 by bassist Kim Fields and guitaris...
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