IF YOU GO TO SEE VANESSA COLLIER, ‘BE PREPARED TO FEEL SOMETHING’
For Vanessa Collier, a live show is more than a set delivered by a performer to an audience. No, for the Maryland-based singer and saxophone player, it’s much more intimate and interactive than that. ...
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SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB LOOKS BACK ON ‘CIPHER,’ ‘MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER’
Deeply literary in the Southern tradition and walking the line between wildly unhinged and coolly calculated, Slim Cessna's Auto Club has been making eerie and compelling music since its namesake, the...
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RICHARD X. HEYMAN GOES ‘INCOGNITO’ FOR 12th ALBUM
Richard X. Heyman is an industry unto himself, recording most of the instruments on his records and releasing them on his own Lower East Side label, Turn-Up Records, along with his wife, Nancy. And wh...
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JASON MOLINA’S LEGACY ON STAGE WITH SONGS: MOLINA IN PHILLY, BROOKLYN
Jason Molina, the iconic, idiosyncratic singer/songwriter who recorded under the equally inscrutable name Songs: Ohia, was not an easy man to know. More than four years after his passing at 39 years o...
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THE SPINTO BAND PREMIERE: ‘KIND OF A GIRL’ + INTERVIEW
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina battered the South, Pope John Paul II died and Kanye West released "Late Registration." Meanwhile, six teenagers in Delaware who had been writing songs together for some...
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ROSELIT BONE’S NIGHTMARISH WESTERN FREAKOUT
In Josh McCaslin’s world, mariachi bands think nothing of hanging out with surf rockers. Yelping rockabillies and Nick Cave are not strange bedfellows, and fresh-faced TV cowboys shoot knowing glances...
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STARBIRD FINDS ITS OWN SOUND AHEAD OF EAST COAST DATES, INCLUDING BROOKLYN BOWL
If you’re a fan of the broadly defined jam band scene and have set foot in a club, theater or festival in the past 10 years, odds are you’ve seen Justin Mazer, Dylan Skursky and Al Smith and their res...
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A HAWK AND A HACKSAW’S HEATHER TROST VISITS ‘AGISTRI’ ON SOLO DEBUT
Heather Trost, as one-half of the duo A Hawk And A Hacksaw with Jeremy Barnes of Neutral Milk Hotel, a touring member of NMH, a member of Taper and a collaborator with groups like Beirut and Thor &...
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MIND CHOIR DEBUTS FIRST SINGLE, ‘MILES’
Later this summer, Wilkes-Barre-based psychedelic groove-rock band Mind Choir will release its full-length debut album. But first the 4-piece will put out the single, "Miles," as part of a split 7-inc...
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SETTING ‘FINNEGANS WAKE’ TO MUSIC, WITH LOU ROGAI AND TIM CARBONE
Calling “Waywords and Meansigns” an ambitious undertaking would not do the sprawling project justice. Considered by scholars to be one of the most difficult pieces in English language literature, Jame...
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