ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO: STILL A PUNK AT HEART
By Michael Lello From his days growing up listening to garage bands in Huntington Beach, Calif., to opening for the Sex Pistols as a member of the Nuns, to forming the True Believers and launching a ...
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SUZE MOVES FORWARD WITH “SOUNDS FROM THURSDAY EVENING”
By Michael Lello Photo by Keith Perks It’s only been a few years, but Northeastern Pa. band Suze learned quite a bit between the making of their 2012 debut album and their recently released second a...
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BUCK KNIFE, CREEPOID EXPLORE THE OTHER SIDE
By Michael Lello For every group of musicians with stars in its eyes, there’s another band whose goals are purely artistic. Success is almost seen as the opposite of the goal. Buck Knife, a newer p...
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NEW JERSEY’S EVERYMEN FIND THEIR ROOTS AGAIN
By Nikki M. Mascali Chances are, the bands you loved and tore up your walls with dozens of push-pinned posters in your youth are probably not on regular airplay in your earbuds today. That’s not to ...
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JON ANDERSON: “MUSIC IS AN ADVENTURE”
Michael Lello Photo by Deborah Anderson You might say Jon Anderson had us at hello. That’s all he needed to say when he answered his phone for an interview, and we knew we had dialed the right numb...
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STEVE HACKETT REVISITS THE DREAM OF CLASSIC GENESIS
By Michael Lello If you were writing the bible of British progressive rock, you would be well advised to start with the book of Genesis. While the band might be best known for its 1980s and ’90s h...
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NATALIE CRESSMAN: PAINTING IN BROAD STROKES
By Michael Lello While Natalie Cressman’s instrument of choice is the trombone, one might say the paintbrush – at least figuratively – is also a key tool in the arsenal of the young multi-instrumenta...
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KELLER WILLIAMS STAKES OUT HIS OWN MUSIC REAL ESTATE
By Michael Lester Quirky, deadpan instrumental wizard Keller Williams is so multitalented, few of his fans would shrug at the suggestion he was peddling homes, moonlighting as an agent with Keller Wi...
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AMY HELM: “IT’S OUR JOB TO PASS IT ON”
By Michael Lello Amy Helm is playing a vital role in keeping alive the legacy of her late father Levon – and not just in name. When the legendary drummer, singer and mandolin player from The Band di...
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JOHN THE CONQUEROR CELEBRATES “THE GOOD LIFE” — AND ASSHOLES
By Nikki M. Mascali John the Conqueror was a folkloric slave hero, an African prince sold into slavery in America who never let his enslavement break his spirit. John the Conqueror is also a root us...
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