ROSARY GUILD: ‘IT’S PRETTY, BUT IT CAN GET SCARY’
Rosary Guild's sound is cinematic, expansive — big. But at its core, the Wilkes-Barre group comes from a place of isolation. The isolation of growing up in the "boonies," as singer, songwriter and gu...
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KARL HALL GEARS UP FOR OPENING NIGHT: ALL-AGES VENUE HOPES TO BECOME ‘CORNERSTONE’
Photos by Robin Palmer Musicians have had an uneasy relationship with the music business, to put it mildly, since someone figured out they could make money by performing and someone else figured ou...
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DIXIE DREGS CLASSIC LINEUP BACK TOGETHER FOR FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS
The Dixie Dregs were seemingly an exercise in how not to be successful in the music business. Five guys playing complex, southern-flavored rock music. Or was it jazz? And oh yeah, there was no singer....
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MAC SABBATH ARE THE UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS OF ‘DRIVE-THRU’ METAL
Maybe you've heard of speed metal. But fast-food metal? Heavy metal has a staggering number of sub-genres. Death metal, thrash metal, doom metal, stoner metal, power metal, black metal, grindcore, ...
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WITH ‘PANGAEA,’ EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER FOR JASON McCUE
If geological history is to believed, the earth was a much less divided place eons ago. About 200 to 300 million years ago, the continents were, to put it not very scientifically, smushed together. Th...
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MIZ’S COMEBACK STORY UNFOLDS ON ‘A YEAR AGO TODAY’ (SONG PREMIERE)
Mike Mizwinski — the singer, songwriter and guitarist who performs as Miz — opens his soon-to-be-released new studio album, “A Year Ago Today,” with an introspective, country-flavored tune called “Bei...
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TONEY ROCKS IS ‘NOT GONNA RUN’ (VIDEO PREMIERE)
Toney Rocks sees his new song, “Not Gonna Run,” as “a kind of personal anthem.” “It says everything that it needed to say,” says the Las Vegas singer, songwriter and guitarist. It just took a l...
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RICH ROBINSON ‘HAVING FUN’ AGAIN WITH MAGPIE SALUTE
It was no secret that the final years of The Black Crowes’ storied run were fraught with tension. Frontman Chris Robinson wanted to continue to push the music into an open-ended, Grateful Dead-inspire...
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STEVE KIMOCK ON FINDING THE SOUNDS OF ‘SATELLITE CITY’ AND WORKING WITH LESLIE MENDELSON AND THE NATIONAL
Anyone who has followed the career of guitarist Steve Kimock won’t be surprised that his new album, “Satellite City,” is full of virtuosic, tasteful playing. But they might be caught off guard by the ...
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MISTY MOUNTAIN AND SPECIAL GUESTS TO CONJURE LED ZEPPELIN AT RIVER STREET JAZZ CAFE
Ten years ago, a group of young musicians, some of them not even young enough to vote, rent a car or get into an R-rated movie unaccompanied, played a sold-out show at the River Street Jazz Cafe in Wi...
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