Features
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Nicki Bluhm living on the knife’s edge of fear and excitement
Break-up songs are as common as love songs, yet some are tougher to stomach than others. A quick fling will often end in a diesel fire, but a 10-year marriage? San Francisco’s Nicki Bluhm and…
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Q&A: Conspiracy theories with Aussie Mallrat
Nineteen-year-old Grace Shaw couldn’t believe it: Playing her first non-industry show in L.A. in early April, she spotted superstar producer and collaborator Mark Ronson staring at her from the crowd. Shaw, the real name of…
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BottleRock: The Wrecks are the go-getters rock music needs
A band’s success requires skill, work ethic and a couple of lucky breaks. All three propelled The Wrecks into festival circuits with only two EPs under their belts in as many years. Frontman Nick Anderson,…
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BottleRock: Australian Dean Lewis out to make ‘Waves’ in the U.S.
Being the next big thing in Australian pop music machine comes with expectations and pressures. The country has been spitting out singer-songwriters with regularity seemingly month-over-month, from breakout major label success stories like Vance Joy,…
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Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner keeping the ‘roll’ in rock
Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie plays rock and roll music. “You’ve gotta put the ‘roll’ in there,” he specifies. “We don’t consider ourselves a rock band, we’re a rock and roll band. We’re going…
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Birth, death and a broken fan lay the groundwork for Meric Long’s solo debut
In the midst of a much-needed break from The Dodos following the passing of his father and the birth of his daughter, the indie rock band’s frontman, Meric Long, found himself searching for the means to…
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BottleRock: Amy Shark gets revenge against the big fish
For 10 years, Australian Amy Shark toiled away in the bar scene of her small beach town in a remote part of her country, relying mostly on Cyndi Lauper and Alanis Morissette covers. She hated…
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Q&A: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club free from the shadow of grief
As Black Rebel Motorcycle Club was recording 2013 album Specter at the Feast, the trio was still reeling from the 2010 death of one of their own. Michael Been, the father of frontman Robert Levon Been,…
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BottleRock: The Brevet stand at attention to new direction
When Orange County folk-rock band The Brevet was first starting out in 2013, the goal of frontman Aric Chase Damm and his bandmates was strictly to write songs that could be licensed to television and film.…
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Mon Laferte rises from Chilean reality show to rock powerhouse
In the United States, we tend to assume that we have the best of the best, or if not, that the best of the best come here. And it’s often a good assumption; we’re also…
