COAL TOWN ROUNDERS CELEBRATE ‘HOW IT USED TO BE’ (TRACK PREMIERE)
There’s a lot of lip service given to “artisanal,” “homemade” and “hand-crafted” products these days. It often seems more like a marketing plan drummed up to ensnare hipsters than anything truly a...
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BILL EVANS: FROM MILES DAVIS’ RIGHT-HAND MAN TO THE JAM BAND WORLD, SAX MAN FINDS HIS GROOVE
It’s rare to find a musician who has risen to the top of any particular genre. Rarer still is an artist who has achieved remarkable success in two distinct styles – someone like saxophone player and m...
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PAUL THORN ON MAKING PEOPLE FEEL GOOD, BEATING THEM UP IN THE RING and HIS MOM AND DAD’s INFLUENCE
The son of a preacher man, the nephew of a pimp and a former boxer turned singer/songwriter who fought Roberto Duran on national TV. Sounds like three different characters in a novel, but those are al...
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PURPLES RISE FROM THE ASHES OF THE TEETH, PLAY SCRANTON WITH HEAVY BLONDE
When the national press started sniffing around the Philadelphia psychedelic (for lack of a better descriptor) rock scene in the mid-2000s, a few remarkable bands were exposed to a larger audience, li...
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RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM BRING ROOTSY SOUND TO BLOOMSBURG
Fiddler, guitarist and sultry vocalist Rani Arbo “wrote” half of the 12 tracks for her band’s latest album in her head during regular walks inside a 19th century cemetery and a tranquil state park nea...
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AARON FINK FOLLOWS A NEW PATH WITH SOLO DEBUT (INTERVIEW & SONG PREMIERE)
Millions of listeners have heard Aaron Fink’s songs and guitar playing, thanks to the platinum sales status of his old band’s albums. But they won’t really know him as an individual artist until t...
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JUSTIN MAZER ON ‘ANTI-GUITAR’ and ‘MAKING SURE IT’S AWESOME’
Photos by Brittany Boote If it seems like guitarist Justin Mazer has been everywhere lately, it’s because that’s essentially the case. Whether touring with American Babies, the rising, impossible-t...
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BRONX BAR BOASTS ‘WORLD’S SHORTEST ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE’
Scranton celebrated the Irish with its annual St. Patrick’s Parade on Saturday, March 14 and Highway 81 Revisited’s newest base of operations, New York City, will continue the march that started in 17...
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ANDERS OSBORNE’S INTERCONTINENTAL MUSICAL ADVENTURE HITS ARDMORE & PORT CHESTER
By Michael Lester Photos by Jay Blakesberg Name a low-paying, manual labor job, and singer-songwriter blues-based guitarist Anders Osborne has probably done it during his well-traveled, adventur...
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‘RIDING WITH ROY’: ROY WILLIAMS DEBUTS TRACK, TALKS FIRST SOLO ALBUM
Since moving from Scranton, Pa., to Brooklyn three and a half years ago, Roy Williams' musical profile has been on the rise, thanks to playing guitar as a member of French-born Gypsy jazz guitarist ...
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