NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE ‘MIRACLE AND WONDER’ OF PAUL SIMON’S ‘GRACELAND’
In retrospect, Paul Simon’s “Graceland” is venerated not just as a brilliant, timeless, genre-spanning album, but something more broadly important: a bridge between the west and Africa during the hei...
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METAL SINGERS PUT NEW TWIST ON ‘TRANSFORMERS’ SOUNDTRACK
Six years after the country was consumed with the death of JR Ewing on the TV drama “Dallas” in 1980, another character’s demise was rattling a different fanbase: Optimus Prime, the altruistic leader ...
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THE CRYSTAL METHOD: ‘WE DID SOMETHING MONUMENTALLY DIFFERENT’
In early August of 2001, the Billboard album chart was topped by Alica Keys’ “Songs in A Minor,” *NSYNC’s “Celebrity” and Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor.” Creeping in at No. 32 was “The Tweekend,” th...
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JOHN MAILANDER’S FORECAST PUSHES THEIR LIMITS ON NEW EP
Multi-instrumentalist John Mailander calls his band Forecast, but the project’s musical output is anything but predictable. Initially relying on his foundation in bluegrass, the group’s new EP, “L...
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FAMILY STEREO: ‘ATMOSPHERE INSPIRES ME JUST AS MUCH AS WORDS DO’
Family Stereo, the eclectic musical project of Blake Watt, has some momentum at his back as he releases his debut album, "The Thread." He's already played at festivals in his native UK like Kendal Ca...
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THE HOOTERS’ ERIC BAZILIAN BREAKS THROUGH THE ECHO CHAMBER WITH ‘BETTER TIMES’
Songwriting is a famously confessional exercise in which artists bare their innermost emotions and share them with the world. But Eric Bazilian, the lead vocalist of The Hooters, took a different app...
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BURIAL GROUND LIVES AGAIN: BRIAN QUINN RETURNS AS PA HARDCORE VETS HONOR THEIR FALLEN
A Pennsylvania band that was dead and buried – pardon the wordplay – is back with new music and a gig this Saturday at a benefit that is bringing together some of the PA hardcore scene’s central figu...
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REUNITED SIDE OVER FEELS SADNESS AND JOY IN HONORING LOST COMRADES
The surviving members of northeastern Pennsylvania hardcore band Side Over are certain of it: if their former bandmates were still alive, they wouldn’t be performing on Saturday. Or at all. “No, n...
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LE BANG IS PART PARIS, PART NYC AND 100% CHAOS
NYC punk trio Le Bang today releases its new single and video "God Save The Party," in which Lola Lancón and company answer the question, What would Marie Antoinette be like today? Born and raised...
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LUKE TYLER SHELTON’S STAR IS ON THE RISE WITH NEW SINGLE ‘REASONS’
Photos by Ariana Santiago Lule Tyler Shelton is sitting on a bench in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, answering my questions about his rising profile as a singer-songwriter and guitarist in the loosely...
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