Interview With Granville Automatic
Ziggy Marley once sang, “If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future.” If that’s true, the ladies of Atlanta alt-country act…
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Ben Folds: So There Review
For a generation who came of age in the ‘90s, Ben Folds is every bit as iconic as piano-pop elder statesmen like Joe Jackson,…
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SideOneDummy Records Turns 20
Hitting the twenty-year mark is a pretty big deal for a record label in the modern “here today, gone tomorrow” entertainment industry. Hitting that mark as…
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Little Richard- Directly From My Heart Review
With the deaths of Otis Redding (who passed away in 1967), Ray Charles (2004) and James Brown (2006), Macon’s Richard Wayne Penniman is the…
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Royal Thunder Frontwoman MIny Parsonz On Religion, Divorce & Crooked Doors
If Robert Plant and Tina Turner had spawned an offspring who grew up worshipping at the altar of Janis Joplin, she might sound a…
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Faith No More- Sol Invictus Review
It’s been 18 years since Faith No More’s last album (the multi-platinum Album of the Year) was released, and 17 years since they announced…
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ROYAL THUNDER- CROOKED DOORS REVIEW
A lot has happened in the three years since Atlanta’s Royal Thunder released its swampy, cryptic 2012 debut, CVI. Most significantly, bassist/vocalist Mlny Parsonz…
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Indie Dance Duo Matt and Kim Back with New Glow
With little-to-no radio airplay over the years, the hard-to-define indie-rock duo Matt and Kim have managed to get their music out to the masses…
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José González- Vestiges & Claws Review
José González was born in Sweden in 1978, two years after his academic psychologist father, mother and older sister escaped the military junta that…
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Bettye LaVette- Worthy Review
Bettye LaVette may have been born and raised in Detroit, but her life is the stuff of which Delta blues classics are made. …
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Joshua Radin- Onward and Sideways Review
Zach Braff may not be the world’s greatest actor, but the guy has arguably done more to give indie musical artists mainstream exposure in…
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Supergroup Diamond Rugs blazes on with new album
The alt-rock supergroup Diamond Rugs came together in 2011 with the simple goal of writing a record full of songs about weed. The impromptu idea…
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Is Joe Pug Americana’s next big thing?
Indie folk/Americana musician Joe Pug turned in two remarkable records in 2010 and 2012 (Messenger and The Great Despiser, respectively), and subsequently went about almost…
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Ralph Stanley and Friends- Man of Constant Sorrow Review
Ralph Stanley may not have invented bluegrass, but– at age 87– he’s old enough to have performed with the man who did. Growing up in…
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BAUHAUS, BLACK MAGICK & BENEDICTION: An Interview With David J
Offering a groundbreaking fusion of post-punk, funk, dub reggae and glam, Bauhaus burst out of Northampton, England in 1979 with a 9-minute single called…
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Let’s Radiate: The Radiators Live at Tipitina’s
My wife left me. Hopefully not permanently. Her mother had a heart attack earlier in the week while working in Houston, so naturally…
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Damien Rice- My Favorite Faded Fantasy Review
Released in 2002, Damien Rice’s O was arguably among the most critically acclaimed debut albums ever released by a singer-songwriter. It also provided…
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The Touré-Raichel Collective: The Paris Sessions Review
An Israeli Jew and a West African Muslim walk into an airport… It may sound like the opening line to a decidedly un-p.c….
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On The Road Again: Choir Vandals
Choir Vandals may be a fairly young band, but– for the second time in two years– they’re putting out a new EP and spending…
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Finding Yourself: An Interview With Singer-Songwriter Eliot Bronson
We’re rooting for Eliot Bronson. First off, the guy is as humble and good-natured as anyone you’re likely to meet in the music business….
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