THE HEAD AND THE HEART: ‘WE DID IT OURSELVES BEFORE, SO WHY CAN’T WE DO IT AGAIN?’
To move forward, The Head and The Heart had to go backwards. Back to how they worked when they were a scrappy young crew emerging from open-mic nights in Seattle: doing it by -- and for -- themselves....
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BLITZEN TRAPPER FINDS THE BALANCE OF THE COSMOS
Blitzen Trapper's latest album, "100's of 1000's, Millions of Billions," is timeless: built from a box of four-track tapes that Eric Earley made in the '90s, it exists outside a particular moment, or ...
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MATT POND PA ON THE VAGARIES OF GEOGRAPHY, THE INDIE SLOG AND NIKKI GLASER
"Everything is backwards and opposite to me," says Matt Pond. It's a generalization that comes when he's discussing geography during our recent interview, and it's an apt one: His long-time band is na...
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VALLEY MAKER CHECKS IN FROM THE CROSSROADS
"Well I'm missing you half the time/ And I'm missing them half the time/ And I'm missing what's left of my life/ And I'm missing what's left behind," Austin Crane sings in "On a Revelation," one of th...
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DARLINGSIDE FINDS THE HARMONY IN NATURE ON ‘FISH POND FISH’
On its new album "Fish Pond Fish," Boston-area band Darlingside harnesses its exquisite vocal harmonies to celebrate the wonders of nature, with stars, mountains and caves serving as themes. It's a we...
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MULTINATIONAL INDIE-FOLK BAND BRINGS GLOBE-TREKKING SOUND TO NYC, PHILLY
Sleepwalker’s Station, a truly international band, earlier this year released “Lorca,” an indie-folk album sung in five languages and four dialects. Together since 2001, the band has played more than ...
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LITTLESTARRUN EXPANDS SOUND, WILL DEBUT NEW LINEUP AT KARL HALL
Rachel Lucille Woodworth, who usually performs solo as LittleStarRun, will have an opportunity to fully share the "soundscapes I have in my head" when LSR debuts a new band lineup at Karl Hall in Wilk...
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NOXEN, SET FOR LIVE DEBUT, FOLLOWS PATH OF REDISCOVERY
For Sam O’Connell, who grew up playing in a folk band with his religious family members, any music besides Christian music was forbidden. “In college, Paul McCartney’s ‘Band on the Run’ came on, a...
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AMERICAN BUFFALO GHOST LOOKS TO ‘SEPTEMBER’ (SONG PREMIERE)
Last fall, Sean Flynn, as American Buffalo Ghost, released his debut EP, "The Devil Takes Care Of His Own." While it hasn't been quite a year since that first foray, the Scranton-area artist has compl...
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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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