BEATRIX CONFRONTS HER FEARS
Photos by Ariana Santiago It's a gloomy morning in Dumbo, Brooklyn, when Beatrix arrives for an interview. The first thing we talk about is death. You see, one night earlier, during a spellbindin...
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LILY DeTAEYE LEANS INTO BITTERSWEET NOSTALGIA ON ‘ALL THE WAY DOWN’
For her third album, Lily DeTaeye didn’t want to just release a set of songs that had little to do with one another. For the Iowa-raised, Brooklyn-based artist, it was time to make a thematically con...
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STEVE SHELLEY: ‘IF I LIKE THE PEOPLE AND THE MUSIC, I’M USUALLY IN’
Drummer Steve Shelley was a driving force behind Sonic Youth for more than 25 years, in the boiler room of a group that helped build the foundation of the indie music scene that dominated the more re...
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STYX CONTINUES TO MINE WINNING BLEND OF PROG AND CLASSIC FLAVORS
A great number of music fans have misconceptions about Styx, but the band that has been together in one form or another for over 50 years sees the phenomenon as an opportunity, not a determent. “T...
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ALLMAN BETTS FAMILY REVIVAL RETURNS FOR 10th YEAR
The Allman Betts Family Revival will return for a 10th year with its A Decade of Revival tour, which will include stops at the FM Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA, on Dec. 2, the Capitol Theatre in P...
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PETER HOOK REFLECTS ON NEW ORDER, JOY DIVISION AND ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION
Growing up in Manchester, the concerts Peter Hook attended represented an unreachable ideal. “When I went to see Deep Purple and when I went to see Yes, I never looked at them and thought that I c...
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TRIBUTE BRINGS OUT THE BLUES IN THE GRATEFUL DEAD
The diversity and malleability of the music of the Grateful Dead have long made it ripe for tribute albums of all stripes, from bluegrass to rock to jazz to a cappella takes on a catalog that has bee...
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NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE ‘MIRACLE AND WONDER’ OF PAUL SIMON’S ‘GRACELAND’
In retrospect, Paul Simon’s “Graceland” is venerated not just as a brilliant, timeless, genre-spanning album, but something more broadly important: a bridge between the west and Africa during the hei...
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METAL SINGERS PUT NEW TWIST ON ‘TRANSFORMERS’ SOUNDTRACK
Six years after the country was consumed with the death of JR Ewing on the TV drama “Dallas” in 1980, another character’s demise was rattling a different fanbase: Optimus Prime, the altruistic leader ...
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THE CRYSTAL METHOD: ‘WE DID SOMETHING MONUMENTALLY DIFFERENT’
In early August of 2001, the Billboard album chart was topped by Alica Keys’ “Songs in A Minor,” *NSYNC’s “Celebrity” and Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor.” Creeping in at No. 32 was “The Tweekend,” th...
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