ENGLISH BEAT SHOW AT CITY WINERY ‘RANKS’ HIGH
A posh venue in Lower Manhattan— a winery, nonetheless — is an odd setting for a band with punk roots whose ethos was imbued with a distrust of the establishment. But such was the case in late March o...
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ROSARY GUILD: ‘IT’S PRETTY, BUT IT CAN GET SCARY’
Rosary Guild's sound is cinematic, expansive — big. But at its core, the Wilkes-Barre group comes from a place of isolation. The isolation of growing up in the "boonies," as singer, songwriter and gu...
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KARL HALL GEARS UP FOR OPENING NIGHT: ALL-AGES VENUE HOPES TO BECOME ‘CORNERSTONE’
Photos by Robin Palmer Musicians have had an uneasy relationship with the music business, to put it mildly, since someone figured out they could make money by performing and someone else figured ou...
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GRAYSON CAPPS’ RAGGED JOURNEY MAKES ‘SCARLETT ROSES’ A KEEPER
Six albums into his career, it would be wrong to say Grayson Capps has arrived — he’s too seasoned and world-weary to think the journey is over. No, on “Scarlett Roses,” the Alabama native is still fi...
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DIXIE DREGS CLASSIC LINEUP BACK TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
The Dixie Dregs were seemingly an exercise in how not to be successful in the music business. Five guys playing complex, southern-flavored rock music. Or was it jazz? And oh yeah, there was no singer....
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MAC SABBATH ARE THE UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS OF ‘DRIVE-THRU’ METAL
Maybe you've heard of speed metal. But fast-food metal? Heavy metal has a staggering number of sub-genres. Death metal, thrash metal, doom metal, stoner metal, power metal, black metal, grindcore, ...
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WITH ‘PANGAEA,’ EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER FOR JASON McCUE
If geological history is to believed, the earth was a much less divided place eons ago. About 200 to 300 million years ago, the continents were, to put it not very scientifically, smushed together. Th...
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DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, TIGERS JAW LEAD THE WAY AT FIRST ALT 92.1 FM SNOW SHOW
Photos by Alex Seeley Emo legends Dashboard Confessional and hometown heroes Tigers Jaw led the bill at the inaugural Alt 92.1 Snow Show on Sunday, Jan. 28 at the FM Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, ...
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MIZ’S COMEBACK STORY UNFOLDS ON ‘A YEAR AGO TODAY’ (SONG PREMIERE)
Mike Mizwinski — the singer, songwriter and guitarist who performs as Miz — opens his soon-to-be-released new studio album, “A Year Ago Today,” with an introspective, country-flavored tune called “Bei...
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H81R’S MICHAEL LELLO’S FAVORITE ALBUMS AND SHOWS OF THE YEAR
ALBUMS 1. Ryan Adams - Prisoner 2. The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding 3. Roger Waters - Is This The Life We Really Want? 4. The National - Sleep Well Beast 5. Spoon - Hot Thoughts 6. Tige...
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