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VIDEO PREMIERE: Red Porch Kid Gets Layered & Visual With “Minor Hill”
Red Porch Kid is an American rock band formed in 2015 by singer/songwriter and producer Michael Stovall. A founding member of the band Jackson Jones – which disbanded in 2008, Stovall began touring and...
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Mistress of Horror Jovanka Vuckovic Talks ‘XX’ and the Female Perspective...
One of the biggest names in horror is one that you might not know. Yet.Jovanka Vuckovic has been working steadily within the horror community for years now. A former editor of the Canadian horror...
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Film Bits: ‘The Bad Batch’ Trailer; Luke Evans Teases ‘Gaston’
‘The Bad Batch’ Trailer Shows Glimpse of Fabulous WastelandAna Lily Amirpour made waves with her debut film, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Now, you can watch the first trailer for his follow up...
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Iggy Pop, Buzzcocks, X Top Burger Boogaloo 2017 Lineup
Today, Oakland’s favorite music festival (as voted by the readers of the East Bay Express), Burger Boogaloo, which happens July 1st & 2nd at Mosswood Park, announces its line-up for 2017, and...
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Robert Randolph & The Family Band Still ‘Got Soul’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Robert Randolph falls into the category of virtuoso artist who has yet to truly capture his talents on a studio album. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, he has good company (contemporaries...
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Jens Lekman Creates Finest Album To Date With ‘Life Will See You Now’ (ALBUM...
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Ten years ago, night fell over Kortadela. On his vividly colored, sample-heavy 2007 breakthrough LP, Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman juxtaposes vibrant pop with dryly funny quotidian...
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SONG PREMIERE: Christina Cavazos Connects With Slow Building Americana Tune...
Austin singer-songwriter Christina Cavazos is only just turning 17 and already her musical maturity is fully evident on her second EP, Cold, due Feb. 24, 2017. The album showcases her crystal clear...
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Television, Kurt Vile, Kevin Morby, Big Thief, Dawn of Midi Lead Wilco’s 2017...
The musical lineup for the 2017 Solid Sound Festival, which takes place June 23-25 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, has been revealed. Joining festival hosts Wilco, who will headline shows on Friday...
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Horror Honcho Roxanne Benjamin Spills Guts on ‘XX’ (INTERVIEW)
Horror anthologies have seen a remarkable comeback recently, and if you’ve seen any of them—the V/H/S series, Southbound—then you know the work of Roxanne Benjamin. As a producer, screenwriter, and...
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Gore Verbinski Revels in Insanity with ‘A Cure for Wellness’ (FILM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Gore Verbinski is a director with a connoisseur’s taste for batshit. His is a special kind of insanity which tricks you into mistaking it for high budget blockbuster material when, in reality,...
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The Almost Greatness of ‘The Great Wall’ (FILM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥There are moments throughout The Great Wall where you can see the movie that legendary director Yimou Zhang (Hero, Coming Home) was trying to make. At the core of this silly, dismissable monster...
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‘XX’ Offers New Perspectives in Terror (FILM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Horror is a genre that works best in small doses. That’s not to discount the power and effect of the long form; both the novel and the feature film have a long history within horror, and the...
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Sam Patch (Tim Kingsbury) Revels In Dance Dynamic With ‘Yeah You, and I’...
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Yeah You, and I, the first solo album by Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Tim Kingsbury, is a densely layered indie pop gem that rivals Kingsbury’s main band in its artistry. Under the stage...
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Ryan Adams Embraces Lost Love and Self-Awareness on ‘Prisoner’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take over. Nobody worries about kids...
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Jay Farrar & Son Volt Emit Haunting & Spirited Effort On ‘Notes of Blue’...
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Even as he devotes the majority of time to his ongoing solo career, Jay Farrar has applied a no less discerning focus on those projects with his post-Uncle Tupelo band, Son Volt. For the first...
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SONG PREMIERE: The Kernal Rambles Beautifully “At the Old Taco Bell” (INTERVIEW)
Who is The Kernal? If you don’t know, it’s best you start knowin’. The Tennessee native has been doing his thing for some time now, playing as a sideman with the likes of Andrew Combs and Jonny Fritz...
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Midnight Oil Staging First World Tour In Over Two Decades
Legendary Australian rock band and agitators Midnight Oil today announced their first World Tour in over two decades. They also unveiled plans to release three archival box sets including a collection...
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Agent Orange Stay True To Punk Legacy In Austin (SHOW REVIEW)
As one of the early adopters of hardcore punk in California, a state which spawned some of the all time greatest punk rock bands, Agent Orange has surprisingly also been one of the few to plow along...
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The Rock Boat XV11 Cruises With Sister Hazel, Matt Nathanson & More (PHOTOS)
The Rock Boat set sail on its 17th voyage February 10-15, 2017 and cruised on the NCL Jade from Tampa to Belize and Costa Maya, Mexico for 5 days. Hosted by Sister Hazel, this year’s cruise featured...
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ALBUM PREMIERE: Julia Anrather Revels In Sensual And Sensible Pop On ‘Quentin’
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Julia Anrather has a lot on her plate, spending time an actress and a producer with a handful of projects going on at any given moment. Somehow though, she manages to...
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