THE ALARM’S MIKE PETERS MOVES ‘FORWARDS’ WITH ALBUM WRITTEN IN CANCER WARD
For more than 40 years, Mike Peters has been churning out anthems with The Alarm, the Welsh band with punk roots that grew to arena rock stardom on the back of big songs like "Sixty Eight Guns" in 198...
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RICKY SKAGGS STILL BRINGING THE BLUEGRASS THUNDER AT 68
Ricky Skaggs has been a master of the mandolin for nearly 50 years, rising to fame in bluegrass circles in his early 20s, living up to the promise he showed as a mere 7-year-old on the Flatt & Scr...
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NEW PORNOGRAPHERS AND THE EXCITEMENT OF THE UNEXPECTED
You know that sense of anticipation you have before pressing play on a favorite band's new album? At least one member of the tuneful Canadian indie-rock veterans The New Pornographers feels the same w...
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BLUES TRAVELER CONTINUES LONG HAUL WITH STOP AT SHERMAN THEATER
The music of Blues Traveler was everywhere in the mid-'90s. Hits like "Run-Around" and "The Hook" were all over radio and MTV, and every college dorm room seemed to have a copy of the "four" album on ...
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FISHBONE: ‘THERE’S A GREAT SENSE OF PURPOSE’
Fishbone, the legendary band out of Los Angeles that has fused punk, funk and everything in between since 1979, is on a mission. As bassist and founding member Norwood Fisher puts it, it might be "the...
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MICHIGANDER GRATEFUL FOR HIGH-PROFILE COLLABS AND FANS WILLING TO ‘INCONVENIENCE THEMSELVES’
Jason Singer has been performing as Michigander for nearly 10 years. He's released a song that has been streamed more than 10 million times, he's performed at Lollapalooza and shared stages with Band ...
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FRUIT BATS’ ERIC JOHNSON IS HOMEWARD BOUND ON NEW ALBUM
For Eric Johnson, the singer, songwriter and guitarist behind the long-time indie rock project Fruit Bats, home is a relative idea. On a literal level, after many years spent in many places, it's Los ...
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SNARKY PUPPY: BUILDING AN EMPIRE FROM THE GROUND UP
Hot off a Grammy win -- the band's fifth -- Snarky Puppy is on the road, with dates in New York and Philadelphia this week. For bandleader and bassist Michael League, each album release or concert is ...
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THE BOBBY LEES: ‘WE’RE REALLY COOL AND GOOD AT MUSIC’
The Bobby Lees might be from Woodstock, but they're no hippie revival act. The young punk group that has caught the ears of genre gods like Iggy Pop, Debbie Harry and Henry Rollins is gaining a reputa...
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SLEAFORD MODS’ JASON WILLIAMSON: ‘I THINK A LOT OF WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE FOLDING’
Sleaford Mods, the UK post-punk duo comprised of Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, are not optimists. And they have a lot of material to work with. Their homeland is mired in a cost of living crisis ...
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