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  • RICKY SKAGGS STILL BRINGING THE BLUEGRASS THUNDER AT 68
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    RICKY SKAGGS STILL BRINGING THE BLUEGRASS THUNDER AT 68

    Jun 6, 2023 0

    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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  • BILLY STRINGS TALKS PLAYING IN A CAVE, JAMMING WITH CABINET AND HIS LOVE FOR METAL
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    BILLY STRINGS TALKS PLAYING IN A CAVE, JAMMING WITH CABINET AND HIS LOVE FOR METAL

    Dec 17, 2018 0

    If there was such a thing as Fantasy Bluegrass, you'd be wise to spend your first pick on Billy Strings. Possessing wicked-fast guitar skills, the young Michigan native has what sports prognosticators...

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  • PEACH FEST A FAMILY HOMECOMING OF SORTS FOR LEFTOVER SALMON
    Interviews, Peach Festival

    PEACH FEST A FAMILY HOMECOMING OF SORTS FOR LEFTOVER SALMON

    Jul 12, 2018 0

    This year’s Peach Festival is shaping up as a family reunion for Andy Thorn of Leftover Salmon. When the Colorado bluegrass-based sextet makes its debut Peach appearance during the July 19-22 festi...

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  • MASON PORTER ENJOYS A WEEKEND IN THE WOODS WITH ‘HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS’
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    MASON PORTER ENJOYS A WEEKEND IN THE WOODS WITH ‘HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS’

    Jun 3, 2016 0

    If you didn’t know that Mason Porter’s new EP was titled “Heart Of The Mountains,” if you didn’t see the bucolic album cover complete with a bear strumming an acoustic guitar, and if you didn’t know t...

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  • SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN: CABINET FAMILY WEEKEND ON MONTAGE MOUNTAIN
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    SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN: CABINET FAMILY WEEKEND ON MONTAGE MOUNTAIN

    May 27, 2016 1

    Photos by Pati Bobeck SCRANTON, Pa.  — At the conclusion of its Saturday afternoon acoustic set at their fourth annual Susquehanna Breakdown on Montage Mountain, members of Cabinet welcomed about 5...

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  • DRIFTWOOD BRINGS ROCKIN’ BLUEGRASS TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN
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    DRIFTWOOD BRINGS ROCKIN’ BLUEGRASS TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN

    May 19, 2016 0

    It would be easy to put Driftwood into a bluegrass category, but that isn’t really what the group does. It’s kind of rock ‘n’ roll meets fiddles. “From the Binghamton, New York music scene comes Drift...

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  • COAL TOWN ROUNDERS WILL SEE YOU AT THE BREAKDOWN FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR
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    COAL TOWN ROUNDERS WILL SEE YOU AT THE BREAKDOWN FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT YEAR

    May 17, 2016 1

    Photos by Jim Gavenus This is the story of a few dudes, a banjo and the man in the yellow hat. Sort of. Christopher Kearney (the man in the hat) and some buddies that attended the same high scho...

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  • LARRY KEEL TALKS CABINET, KELLER AND FISHING LEADING UP TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN
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    LARRY KEEL TALKS CABINET, KELLER AND FISHING LEADING UP TO SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN

    May 4, 2016 0

    While flat-picking his steel string guitar and performing “Culpepper Woodchuck” next to a campfire at The Festy music festival in his home state of Virginia a few years back, Larry Keel reached the po...

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  • MASON PORTER BRINGS EXPANDED FOLK SOUND TO STEELSTACKS
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    MASON PORTER BRINGS EXPANDED FOLK SOUND TO STEELSTACKS

    Jul 3, 2015 0

    Philadelphia-area American band Mason Porter has continued to hone its sound – and expand its growing fanbase – in the roughly 10 years since its inception. The latest step forward for the group is “K...

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  • SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN PHOTO GALLERY 2: COAL TOWN ROUNDERS, AMERICAN BABIES & MORE
    Peach Festival

    SUSQUEHANNA BREAKDOWN PHOTO GALLERY 2: COAL TOWN ROUNDERS, AMERICAN BABIES & MORE

    May 15, 2015 0

    Photos by Alex Seeley Photographer Alex Seeley captured some of the weekend's brightest moments at Susquehanna Breakdown at The Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pa. We are breaking the pho...

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From the Vault

SUNFLOWER BEAN STARES DOWN MORTALITY ON FOURTH ALBUM: ‘THIS COULD END’

SUNFLOWER BEAN STARES DOWN MORTALITY ON FOURTH ALBUM: ‘THIS COULD END’

May 20, 2025
NEW OF MONTREAL SONG:  “SHE AIN’T SPEAKIN’ NOW”

NEW OF MONTREAL SONG: “SHE AIN’T SPEAKIN’ NOW”

Aug 14, 2013
NEW BOB MOULD SONG, “I DON’T KNOW YOU ANYMORE”

NEW BOB MOULD SONG, “I DON’T KNOW YOU ANYMORE”

Apr 29, 2014
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVENRIDES MOMENTUM WITH RE-RELEASES

CAMPER VAN BEETHOVENRIDES MOMENTUM WITH RE-RELEASES

Jan 16, 2014
MARCO BENEVENTO DROPS NEW ALBUM AND FOLLOWS THE ARROW TO HIS OWN FESTIVAL

MARCO BENEVENTO DROPS NEW ALBUM AND FOLLOWS THE ARROW TO HIS OWN FESTIVAL

Jun 13, 2022
MCCARTNEY,’ ‘MCCARTNEY II’ TO GET DELUXE RESISSUE TREATMENT

MCCARTNEY,’ ‘MCCARTNEY II’ TO GET DELUXE RESISSUE TREATMENT

Apr 28, 2011
DARLINGSIDE FINDS THE HARMONY IN NATURE ON ‘FISH POND FISH’

DARLINGSIDE FINDS THE HARMONY IN NATURE ON ‘FISH POND FISH’

Nov 25, 2020

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THE HEAD AND THE HEART: ‘WE DID IT OURSELVES BEFORE, SO WHY CAN’T WE DO IT AGAIN?’
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THE HEAD AND THE HEART: ‘WE DID IT OURSELVES BEFORE, SO WHY CAN’T WE DO IT AGAIN?’

Jul 24, 2025
WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL GOES ORGANIC: ‘IT’S JUST ALWAYS BEEN MY KIND OF THING’
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WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL GOES ORGANIC: ‘IT’S JUST ALWAYS BEEN MY KIND OF THING’

Jul 15, 2025
ARCADE FIRE GOES SMALL WITH BIG RESULTS ON ‘PINK ELEPHANT’
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ARCADE FIRE GOES SMALL WITH BIG RESULTS ON ‘PINK ELEPHANT’

Jul 30, 2025

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