BLITZEN TRAPPER FINDS THE BALANCE OF THE COSMOS
Blitzen Trapper's latest album, "100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions," is timeless: built from a box of four-track tapes that Eric Earley made in the '90s, it exists outside a particular moment, or ...
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CAT RIDGEWAY: ‘I JUST FEEL LIKE I’M COMING BACK TO MYSELF’
The punky "Epilogue," the first single from Cat Ridgeway's upcoming album "Sprinter," is a shift from her earlier Americana and r&b sounds. But to the Orlando singer, songwriter and multi-instrume...
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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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