PEACH FESTIVAL 2018: PHIL LESH, UMPHREY’S MCGEE, MICHAEL FRANTI and MORE
Photos by Sam Watson The seventh annual Peach Music Festival on Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA, wrapped up last weekend with an exciting blend of classic rock royalty like Grateful Dead and Allma...
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HOWLIN RAIN: ‘HUMANS DON’T SING ON KEY ALL THE TIME’
Ethan Miller, who helms the fuzzed-out, hard-charging rock outfit Howlin Rain, knows there are many ways to lead a band. And he knows none of them are quite perfect. "There's no fucking easy way to...
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THE BOX TOPS ARE STILL ‘SOUL DEEP’ AFTER ALEX CHILTON’S PASSING
When The Box Tops frontman Alex Chilton -- also legendary for fronting Big Star -- died in 2010, it seemed The Box Tops had also been laid to rest. "It destroyed me and I just was determined not to...
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JOE RUSSO BRINGS EAST COAST ATTITUDE TO GRATEFUL DEAD SONGBOOK
When New Jersey metalhead Joe Russo was in high school, he quit a band because it played Grateful Dead songs. But starting in his 30s, he'd come to love the iconic San Francisco group's music as a ke...
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FROM ‘JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR’ TO SIT-INS WITH DEREK TRUCKS: BRANDON ‘TAZ’ NEIDERAUER’S SURREAL JOURNEY
If you were one of the 9.6 million people who tuned into NBC on Easter night to watch "Jesus Christ Superstar," the first person you saw was not John Legend or Alice Cooper or Sara Bareilles. It wasn'...
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O CANADA: BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE OFFERS BRILLIANT FREE SHOW AT CENTRAL PARK
NEW YORK, NY — On a sweltering Sunday in Central Park, a few days before the Fourth of July, Canadian indie collective Broken Social Scene offered a peace offering amid rising tensions between the U.S...
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AMERICAN BUFFALO GHOST LOOKS TO ‘SEPTEMBER’ (SONG PREMIERE)
Last fall, Sean Flynn, as American Buffalo Ghost, released his debut EP, "The Devil Takes Care Of His Own." While it hasn't been quite a year since that first foray, the Scranton-area artist has compl...
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FOR GOMEZ, DEBUT ‘BRING IT ON’ WAS ‘SOMETHING THAT’S JUST US’
By 1998, Oasis were “bigger than f---ing God,” according to Noel Gallagher, and the Britpop giant’s chief rival, Blur, wasn’t that far behind, with its anthemic “Song 2” making an inescapable noise wo...
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DUSTIN DOUGLAS & THE ELECTRIC GENTLEMEN ‘BREAK IT DOWN’ ON ADVENTUROUS NEW ALBUM (SONG PREMIERE)
With a full-length debut and a blues EP under their belt, Dustin Douglas & the Electric Gentlemen return this week with their sophomore full-length album, "Break It Down." The album finds the band...
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PHILADELPHIA’S ROSU LUP FINDS KINDRED SPIRITS AS IT EXPANDS INDIE FOLK SOUND
Rosu Lup, a group that has toured in support of acts like The Districts and Dr. Dog’s Eric Slick, has been featured by iconic Philadelphia radio station WXPN and is working on a new album with a colla...
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