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Loudersoft Loves Joel Plaskett’s Brand of Nova Scotia Folk-Rock.
Hailing from the music-rich town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, songwriter Joel Plaskett has been through multiple incarnations as a songwriter and a performer. As a member of ’90s alt-rock band Thrush...
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Emerging Songwriters: Anthony da Costa’s Precocious Streak of Genius Runs Deep.
I think it must be damning on the soul to never recognize the potential for greatness that lies just under the surface of each of us. I mean, we toil endlessly at these jobs, these relationships, these...
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Emerging Songwriters: Rachel Ries Turns Classical Training Into Classic...
The field of American songwriting, at least the kind we like to remember, never seems to grow too crowded. There’s always room for one more, particularly if the delivery and style can be likened to a...
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Emerging Songwriters: Meg Hutchinson Casts A Net Of Inspiration To Come Up Full
The seaport city of Boston, rich in musical tradition and heritage, has a legacy of turning out notable songwriters and musicians dating back generations. If you’re a follower of that long-standing...
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Memphis Music Resource Center offering half-priced band registrations for...
Ok, Memphis artists: here’s your chance to get a cut-rate band registration for the 2009 International Folk Alliance Conference. If you can high-tail it downtown on November 12th to the Memphis Music...
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SXSW 2009: Who’s Playing You Ask?
We’re all super excited around here for SXSW 2009. Five blissfully insane days in Austin, TX have the ‘softies all ready to pack our Aero Beds and laptops and head south. New bands are being added to...
View ArticleFolk Alliance 2009: Questlove connects with Bela Fleck and connects the dots...
As part of the 2009 International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, the Red Bull Music Academy put together a creativity workshop session featuring ?uestlove (the drummer for The Roots) and...
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Casxio’s dance-rock ninja style has them on the move.
The band Casxio come from Los Angeles and are being hailed as “a little bit more than just the latest band to jump into the dance-music pool” by the LA Times. That’s high praise coming from a city...
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I’m with the (wrist)band — What I learned at SXSW 2009 – PART ONE
I laid there turning green with envy, comfortable, if angry, in my bed about 45 minutes before the bus left from Memphis to head to the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, TX. On the bus,...
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SXSW 2010 Music Showcase: The release of names begins.
A brief, though impressive, list of showcasing music acts at SXSW 2010 have been posted on the SXSW website. The majority of the 200 names we saw look to be either international artists or...
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[Album] Mother Mother – Eureka
If power pop is really not your thing, you’re probably in the wrong spot. To my excitement, it happens to be the thing of Vancouver, BC darlings Mother Mother whose third studio album, Eureka, is due...
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[Throwback] Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity Griots
One of the illest and most unique hip-hop acts to emerge from the early 1990′s in Los Angeles was the collective of Aceyalone, Myka 9, Self Jupiter, P.E.A.C.E. and DJ Kiilu — otherwise known to the...
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[Live @ SXSW] James Blake at Stubb’s BBQ
As the unofficially official wunderkind of the dubstep modernist set (and currently most important name you need to know in music), 21-year-old James Blake had a lot of expectation laid upon him when...
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[CMJ 2011 Recap] Elizabeth gets rewired with Cities Aviv, Datarock, Blonde...
New York City is pretty much already the definition of sensory overload, all by itself, on a random Tuesday, in the middle of nothing, when half of the city calls in sick. So when it’s time for the...
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Jahan Lennon – Can’t Ruin My Fun (video)
Didn’t get the memo about Madchester revivalism being a thing, but okay? If it seems like Mad Decent recording artist Jahan Lennon is out here squeezing our lemons, man, you’d be spot one If you’re...
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