BLKBOK REWRITES THE BOOK ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A CLASSICAL MUSICIAN
BLKBOK's musical talents and creative energy have taken him across the world with household-name superstars like Rihanna and Justin Timberlake. He's even played with someone in outer space. And now he...
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AUSTRALIA’S THE JUNGLE GIANTS ARE BACK IN THE US, AND THEY’RE ‘FREAKING OUT’
Australia's The Jungle Giants have finally made it to the United States on their tour in support of "Love Signs," their fourth full-length album. "It’s been way too long so we are freaking out," en...
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BETH ORTON: ‘WHAT WOULD I DO IF NO ONE WAS GOING TO HEAR THIS?’
The critics at the New York Times, Pitchfork and beyond have placed Beth Orton's new album "Weather Alive," her eighth, in the same company as her beloved (and top-selling) late-'90s/early-2000s mater...
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ZERO REVISITS KNOTTY HISTORY WITH LIVE ALBUM & EAST COAST DATES
If you put on the cleverly titled new live album from Zero, "Naught Again," you'll be transported back to the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, almost 30 years ago to the week. You'll hear a...
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DAN KLUG FINDS THE FUNDAMENTAL SOUND OF THE DEAD WITH LO-FI COVERS ALBUM
For Dan Klug's project The Fundamental Sound, it's all about simplicity. On his newly released album, "Lofi Grateful Dead," he played just drums, bass and a Wurlitzer electric piano and kept the produ...
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FOR GHOST LIGHT, THE SPIRIT IS IN THE SONGS
Ghost Light is part of a circuit of bands known for prioritizing the live show, where albums offer a simplified template for songs that take on expanded life on the stage. But Ghost Light, who check m...
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JUDAS PRIEST’S RICHIE FAULKNER RECALLS THE FIRST TIME HE PUT ON THE LEATHER AND STUDS
Judas Priest is celebrating 50 years of groundbreaking heavy metal, and a key player in that celebration wasn't even born when the band began. British guitarist Richie Faulkner, 42, has been with the ...
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BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE LOOKS BACK ON ‘YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE’ AND PAST NYC SHOWS AHEAD OF WEBSTER HALL RUN
It was a strange time in North America when Broken Social Scene released "You Forgot it in People" in 2002. The wounds of 9/11 were fresh in the United States; 10 people had died in the Washington, D....
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JOHN PETRUCCI DISCUSSES SOLO TOUR WITH MIKE PORTNOY AND THE STATE OF PROG METAL
John Petrucci's fall trek is being billed as a solo tour, but it's much more like a working family vacation. The Dream Theater guitarist has enlisted DT founding member Mike Portnoy on drums, big news...
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TAJ MAHAL’S LONGTIME PHANTOM BLUES BAND HONORS LATE KEYBOARDIST ON ‘BLUES FOR BREAKFAST’
Asked what he'd like people to know about his Phantom Blues Band comrade Mike Finnigan, who died in August of 2021, Johnny Lee Schell doesn't pick something musical. "He'd be doing an overdub with ...
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