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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DEICIDE’S DECADES OF BLASPHEMY SHOCK THE BAND ITSELF
With song titles like "Death to Jesus" and a frontman with a penchant for burning an inverted cross on his forehead, the most shocking thing that death metal pioneers Deicide have done, according to d...
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DR DOG’S REFOCUSED REBOOT WAS WORTH THE WAIT
When an artist self-titles an album deep into its career, it can be a signal of a comeback or a new direction, a blunt notice that no matter what has come before, this piece of work is representative ...
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DAS BLACK MILK TALKS ORIGIN STORY AND RECORDING NEW ALBUM IN TWO DAYS
Scranton's Das Black Milk is a band that marches to the beat of its own drum machine. But the individualist nature of the group, which combines post-punk and synth rock elements, among others, gave wa...
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PETE YORN SHARES ‘REAL GOOD LOVE’ IN ADVANCE OF NEW ALBUM LATER THIS YEAR
Pete Yorn released a new single, "Real Good Love," on Friday (listen here and watch the visualizer here). Yorn wrote the song with Josh Gudwin, who produced it, and Michael Pollak. It marks the first ...
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BARONESS ON AVOIDING REPETITION, AIRBNB RECORDING AND ACCESSIBLE PROG
Whether sequestering themselves in an Airbnb to make an album or dropping down to smaller venues to play shows with the setlists curated by the audience, Baroness, six albums into its career, is not g...
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PHILLY AREA’S RED MEANS RUN COVERS NEW TERRITORY ON ‘THINGS YOU HOLD TRUE’
Ryan Wells certainly had the experience and ability to produce his latest album under his Red Means Run banner, having done just that on the previous RMR EPs, and his previous band, Radio Ghost Town, ...
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DUVBEAR ON ‘BLACKHEART’ AND WORKING WITH DAD MATISYAHU SINCE HE WAS 2
Shalom Miller, aka Duvbear, has been around music for as long as he can remember, contributing to his father Matisyahu's "Live at Stubbs 2" when he was only a two-year-old. Now he's making his own mus...
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FROM DORM ROOMS TO BIG STAGES, TROUSDALE’S HARMONIES FIND THE SWEET SPOT
The three ladies of Trousdale have gone from singing to a few classmates at USC to performing to thousands at Bonnaroo, and despite their graduation to much larger stages and dreams for even bigger on...
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CODY DICKINSON REVELS IN THE FREEDOM OF NEW SOLO ALBUM
Cody Dickinson's experience producing Lucero, Cisco Adler and the "Take Me to the River" documentary series could only prepare him so much for his latest client: himself. The North Mississippi Allstar...
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