KAT VON D IS OUT TO PROVE HERSELF ON DEBUT ALBUM AND TOUR (VIDEO INTERVIEW)
When we ask Kat Von D how she feels about fans being skeptical when an artist tries something outside of their established genre, she cuts us off. "They should be," she says. Von D is a classica...
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BRITISH CHART-TOPPERS THE WOMBATS GEARED UP FOR FILLMORE, TERMINAL 5 SHOWS
U.K. indie favorites The Wombats are stateside through late February for a run of dates to promote their newly released fifth studio album, "Fix Yourself, Not the World." It's on track to be the band...
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LEXI VEGA CONTINUES TO FIND HERSELF AS MINI TREES
Photo by Danielle Parsons For Lexi Vega, who performs as Mini Trees, music has been a tool for self-discovery. With a Cuban-born father and Japanese American mother, finding her identity has not be...
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EXCLUSIVE: UNIVERSITY DRIVE STREAMS NEW LYRIC VIDEO FOR ‘CARRY IT’
Photo by Amanda Hrycyna "Carry It," the new track from University Drive, is a dark journey with dark, pointed lyrics like "When I was dead you were deaf ears." With a lyric video that debuts exclus...
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SLEEPLORE TALKS DEBUT EP, RECORDING PROCESS AND FIRST LIVE SHOW
Photo by Keith Perks With his first EP as Sleeplore due next week and the project's first live show in the rearview mirror, Clyde Rosencrance joins us to chat about the endeavor that has been a few...
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THE MOTHER HIPS REKINDLE COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT WITH ‘GLOWING LANTERN’
While the new normal for bands is to collaborate remotely, the upcoming Mother Hips album, "Glowing Lantern," was built on old-fashioned, in-person hangs between primary songwriters Greg Loiacono and ...
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NEW JOHNNY CASH LIVE ALBUM FROM OWSLEY STANLEY FOUNDATION FINDS ‘MAN IN BLACK’ AT EDGE OF GREATNESS
When Johnny Cash rolled into the Carousel Ballroom for a one-off concert on April 24, 1968, he was not the larger-than-life "Man in Black" we think of today. A few weeks later he would release "At Fol...
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ANTHRAX’S FRANK BELLO TALKS ‘FATHERS, BROTHERS and SONS’
In his new memoir, "Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax," Anthrax bassist Frank Bello tells the story of how he went from being abandoned by his father to achievin...
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FOR CARL PALMER, IT’S ‘THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS’ AS ELP CELEBRATES 50 YEARS
Emerson, Lake & Palmer is in the midst of celebrating its 50th anniversary, and with only one of the three members, drummer Carl Palmer, still alive, it has fallen on him to lead the charge. He's ...
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THE SLIP’S BRAD BARR TALKS NEW MUSIC, MONTREAL MUSIC SCENE AND UPCOMING SOLO ALBUM
Most bands with the success and longevity of The Slip would be stacking tour dates on top of tour dates to capitalize on the accumulated good will of the fans and recognition of its catalog. But as fa...
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