GREENSKY BLUEGRASS: ‘WE NEVER REALLY EVOLVE AWAY FROM WHERE WE STARTED’
Greensky Bluegrass has built its career on live performances, with energy flowing back and forth with audiences. But for its new EP, the Americana band changed tack and isolated themselves in Iceland....
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COLLECTIVE SOUL’S DEAN ROLAND ON NEW DOUBLE ALBUM, BROTHERLY LOVE AND 30 YEARS OF SUCCESS
While the battling brothers of Oasis and the recently reunited Black Crowes have become known for their prolonged estrangement as much as their music, the Roland brothers of Collective Soul have manag...
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KERRY KING’S FIRST SOLO ALBUM SHOWS THERE IS LIFE AFTER SLAYER
With the mixed signals of a farewell tour in 2018-19 and reunion shows later this year, Slayer fans aren't sure what's on the horizon for the heavy metal juggernauts. Against that backdrop, guitarist ...
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GOVERNORS BALL: INSIDE THE BOOKING PHILOSOPHY ON NEW YORK’S TOP FESTIVAL
When thousands of music fans stream into Flushing Meadows Corona Park for Governors Ball in June for performances by headliners SZA, The Killers and Post Malone, a slew of other well-known artists and...
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RISING LIVERPOOL BAND RED RUM CLUB IS READY FOR US SHOWS — AND TRUCK STOPS
When Red Rum Club takes the stage at the 250-person-capacity Elsewhere Zone One on Saturday night, the Liverpool band will be a long way from home, and not just geographically. Just last month, the si...
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SLOW HOLLOWS ‘REALLY WANTED TO MAKE A GUITAR-CENTRIC ALBUM’
It would be strange to call the new Slow Hollows album a reunion, considering only one member is back after a 2020 dissolution. But, now serving as the name for Austin Feinstein's recording and tourin...
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BABEHOVEN EXPLORES THE WONDERS OF NATURE ON SECOND FULL-LENGTH ALBUM
On its second full-length album, Babehoven have created a musical and lyrical landscape replete with vivid imagery inspired by the natural world. Throughout "Water's Here in You," the words could stan...
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SAM EVIAN AT MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG: PLUNGING INTO THE ’60s and ’70s, and STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
Sam Evian, in a performance with his band on April 26, shortened the distance between the Catskills and the Laurel Canyon, as well as the time passed between those regions' musical heydays and the pr...
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PRIMUS DRUMMER TIM ‘HERB’ ALEXANDER ON BAND’S UNIQUE PATH, PROG CREDENTIALS AND NEIL PEART
It would be an understatement to say that Primus came out of left field. It's more like the trio arrived from the stadium parking lot, showing up in a mid-1980s hard rock landscape as a funky alternat...
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SLOTHRUST AND THE ROMANTICIZED EXPERIECE OF MAKING AN ALBUM THAT’S 10 YEARS OLD
Slothrust is focused on three releases right now: "I Promise," an EP released in the fall; "Of Course You Do," which is having a 10th-anniversary moment on tour; and a new album the duo of Leah Wellba...
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