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For every hundred bedroom guitar heroes, there's a Bryce Avary, the kind of driven kid who doesn't just dream it. Avary recorded an EP at 18, setting ...
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Drive-by Truckers' songwriting trio Mike Cooley, Jason Isbell, and Patterson Hood have already established themselves as one of the best...
View ArticleKatharine Whalen
The former Squirrel Nut Zippers vocalist trades in her cabaret for lounge on Dirty Little Secret, distancing herself from the old-fashioned jump blues...
View ArticleFootloose and Vowel-Free
Bands change, fortunately, and so does the music they make. But that implies opinions must change too. After telling MxPx frontman Mike Herrera's bass...
View ArticleThe Price of Victory
The members of Hawthorne Heights have taken the hard road before. The Ohio-based quintet toured the nation before signing with Victory Records ...
View ArticleA Pinch of Payback
Do you want to see what's in the box or what's behind door number three? The latest episode in the radio payola version of Let's Make a Deal is lookin...
View ArticleSymphony of the Global South
Ozomatli formed in 1995, but it's a true 21st-century band. The Los Angeles nonet blends a variety of native and folk styles and, in a process symboli...
View ArticleThe Black Keys
The biggest knock on the Keys' 2006 major-label debut, Magic Potion, was its failure to innovate. That can't be said about Attack & Release, which rem...
View ArticleRefugees of Langerado
Friday, March 6 Bad Brains The band that spent much of the past 12 years equally as broken up as they were together began in the late 1970s as fusion-...
View ArticleLeon Russell
Southern-fried piano swamp funk doesn't get better than Leon Russell. His greasy R&B cadges a hopping, Delta blues stomp, fueled by his gravelly croak...
View ArticleAtmosphere
Atmosphere MC Slug has gained some much-needed perspective in the time since 2005's You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having."The identity that com...
View ArticleMaylene and the Sons of Disaster and Emery
Southern rock never dies; it just hangs on the sidelines until another of its native sons takes up the mantle. Maylene frontman Dallas Taylor is anoth...
View ArticleRevolting Cocks
If semitrailers got down 'n' dirty like motor oil in a dank club beneath the highway, Revolting Cocks would be the house band. Spiritual kin of Thrill...
View ArticleA Wilhelm Scream
A cross between the melodic punk of Lawrence Arms and the churning hardcore of Rise Against, AWS combines a high quotient of heft and hooks. Original ...
View ArticleRapper Cage Performs With a DJ and Hatebreed's Guitarist at Revolution
Just because an artist matures doesn't mean his fans will. So while Chris Palko, AKA Cage, may have experienced a personal epiphany that's taken his m...
View ArticleBone Thugs-N-Harmony: Re-Formed and Ready for Revolution
Reaching the top isn't nearly as hard as staying there. The Bone Thugs crew can attest to that. The quintet's blend of gangsta rigor and R&B smoothnes...
View ArticleRoyal Bangs Pack an Indie-Glam Wallop on Their Third Album
Royal Bangs frontman Ryan Schaefer once expressed his bewilderment that any artist would want to plant himself in the middle of an already well-define...
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