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INTERVIEW: LP swings the pendulum across extremes on new album, tour
After concluding her tour for her 2016 album, Lost On You, singer-songwriter LP was almost immediately pulled into a songwriting session. She’d just spent five full months on the road and had been living out of…
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INTERVIEW: Whiskey Myers just ‘good ol’ boys’ playin’ music all year long
Just how deep do Southern roots run through through Texas country and roots rockers Whiskey Myers? When frontman Cody Cannon recently got married, he had only one request, courtesy of Will Farrell and Talladega Nights: The Ballad…
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SF Sketchfest: Blown seal and ‘Wheels Off’ with Rhett Miller of the Old 97’s
Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller may be a master storyteller. Just don’t ask him to tell jokes. That might make his appearance at SF Sketchfest comedy festival Sunday seem like a bit of a head-scratcher.…
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INTERVIEW: Gregory Alan Isakov tills the good earth in soil and song
There are 18 weeks each year when singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov suppresses his urges to put pen to paper, or hop into his DIY barn studio in rural Boulder, Colorado to record. That’s because those…
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Micropixie: the extraordinary evolution of an alien activist
Neshma Friend has lived in many places and undergone many transformations, but her Micropixie persona has proven to be far more than a mere alias. Describing herself as “your favorite alien with extraordinary abilities,” the…
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INTERVIEW: Ashlee Simpson & Evan Ross are the low-key power couple you need
After living a relatively low-key life since their marriage in 2014, Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross have been back in a big way since last fall. She, the former pop starlet, reality TV star and…
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‘New Wave: Dare To Be Different’ chronicles new wave radio revolution
The history of rock and roll is a series of revolutions during which young insurgents dethrone the previous kings and queens who have grown fat and lazy. Chuck Berry unseated T-Bone Walker. The Beatles unseated…
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INTERVIEW: Grace Carter using her pain to fuel her passion
SAN FRANCISCO — Two acts, one of which took place before Grace Carter had any say over her own life, shaped Carter’s core essence. The first was when the future English singer-songwriter’s birth father walked out…
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INTERVIEW: Cailin Russo finds a ‘House with a Pool,’ home with her bandmates
SAN FRANCISCO — As the old adage goes, children end up trying to become the opposites of the parents. The father of Cailin Russo, Unwritten Law’s Scott Russo, made punk music. Naturally, the daughter fell…
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Weird Science: G Flip builds her own dream friend and an irresistible song
During the year Georgia Flipo spent in her home in Melbourne, busy writing songs, she became a bit of hermit. She didn’t spend much time with her friends, but instead started thinking of her primary…
