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Music to Know: Rosco Bandana’s debut “Time to Begin”
It’s been quite a summer for the Mississippi band Rosco Bandana. The first signees to the Hard Rock’s new label, the seven-piece makes music that is equal parts rootsy folk and big-band country rock.
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Artist Interview: Pomegranates
A Pomegranates show is all about throwing away your inhibitions. The Ohio four-man indie band want to recreate the feeling of discovering music – the feeling you had the first time you went to
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Hold on to Summer, Music-Style, Vol. 2 : “It’s Indie”
Welcome to August. The beginning of the end of summer. But we have at least another month and more than a few holdovers to take us into fall. Unlike the humidity that will stick
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Artist Profile: Dolphins
Dolphins are enigmatic and captivating animals. The Chicago (soon to be New York,) by-way-of Florida band, equally so. We first heard of the group, named for the “tropical, disaffected, hazy, sunny and sad” sensibility
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Hold on to Summer, Music-Style, Vol.1: The Season of Synths
August is just a day away and with it, the beginning of the end of summer. But like the humidity that will stick around well into September, we have music to hold onto the
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Album Review: Confess / Twin Shadow
Twin Shadow is quickly cornering the market on the eighties aesthetic. Confess, the sophomore album from George Lewis, Jr., is all retro glam without the shoulder pads. With healthy doses of ballads and anthems,
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Album Review: Shrines / Purity Ring
Purity Ring is essentially all about juxtaposition. After forming nearly a year ago and since then sharing tracks with their growing fan base sporadically (so as to not cheapen them), the Canadian electro duo
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5 Reasons to See Races this Saturday
When we first got a hold of Races’ debut LP Year of the Witch and discovered they would be playing Schuba’s this Saturday (July 21), we started wondering what the best way to express our
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Artist Interview: Honest Engines’ Steve Mulcahy
When Steve Mulcahy sings “we’re not there yet / but at least we’re moving steadily / at least we’re moving faster than before” on the single “Faster Van,” one wonders whether he might be
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Artist Interview: The Hudson Branch
It starts with messing around with instruments. Throw in a few lessons here and there and that becomes playing music. A few stints with church music and jamming with mutually musical friends and suddenly
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