MOE.’S VINNIE AMICO ON EMBRACING CLASSIC ROCK, MAINTAINING SUCCESS AND ‘PHANTOM CHUCK’
The upstate New York jam band moe. has been spreading joy to its legions of fans for 35 years. However, the events of the past few years have threatened to extinguish that joy. Bassist and singer Rob ...
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MICHAEL LELLO’S FAVORITE CONCERTS OF THE YEAR
1. Soulshine, Madison Square Garden, New York, Nov. 24 2. Iron Maiden, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Nov. 2 3. Kacey Musgraves, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Nov. 16 4. Guster, Brooklyn Paramount, March ...
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MICHAEL LELLO’S FAVORITE ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
1. Sarah Jarosz - "Polaroid Lovers" 2. Dr. Dog - "Dr. Dog" 3. Ryan Adams - "Blackhole" 4. Blood Incantation - "Absolute Elsewhere" 5. Lizzy McAlpine - "Older" 6. Kacey Musgraves - "Deeper Well" ...
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LIFE AFTER OLD CROW FOR WILLIE WATSON
For nearly 15 years, Willie Watson has been a former member of Old Crow Medicine Show, the popular Americana band. But it wasn't until this September that he truly became a solo artist, releasing ...
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RYAN ADAMS: ‘I’M GOING TO STAY IN THE GAME, AND I’M GOING TO GO DEEPER’
"I don't have like, much of a social life," Ryan Adams says in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles. "I read books on film noir. I want to see every movie ever made. Ninja movies. I ha...
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WARREN HAYNES TALKS NEW SOLO ALBUM and SOULSHINE HURRICANE BENEFIT AT MSG: ‘THERE’S A LOT GOING ON’
In the run-up to his annual New Year's Eve run with Gov't Mule at the Beacon Theatre, Warren Haynes had carved out time to release and promote his first solo album in nearly a decade, "Million Voices ...
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DEVON ALLMAN VISITS ‘MIAMI MOON’ WITH ALL-STAR BAND AHEAD OF ALLMAN BETTS REVIVAL TOUR
At one point during the making of his new album "Miami Moon," Devon Allman found himself showing bass parts to George Porter Jr., the pioneering bassist from The Meters. He also brought vintage keyboa...
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BLITZEN TRAPPER FINDS THE BALANCE OF THE COSMOS
Blitzen Trapper's latest album, "100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions," is timeless: built from a box of four-track tapes that Eric Earley made in the '90s, it exists outside a particular moment, or ...
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CAT RIDGEWAY: ‘I JUST FEEL LIKE I’M COMING BACK TO MYSELF’
The punky "Epilogue," the first single from Cat Ridgeway's upcoming album "Sprinter," is a shift from her earlier Americana and r&b sounds. But to the Orlando singer, songwriter and multi-instrume...
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CEDRIC BURNSIDE WILL GO ANYWHERE TO SPREAD THE HILL COUNTRY BLUES
One of the main characters on bluesman Cedric Burnside's latest album, "Hill Country Love," isn't a person, it's a place -- an old building in little Ripley, Mississippi, a decidedly unglamorous spot ...
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