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INTERVIEW: Yuna plots her fourth album, Noise Pop gig
Yuna’s music career began in an exotic place that most people these days don’t know much about: MySpace. The story of the Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia artist’s music, however, goes further back and farther away. Yuna Nicotine,…
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INTERVIEW: Joy Williams finds the way back to her ‘Front Porch’
After her Grammy-winning and critically lauded Americana duo The Civil Wars abruptly imploded in 2014, singer-songwriter Joy Williams felt like she had to get out of Nashville, where the Santa Cruz native lived with her husband,…
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INTERVIEW: You Me At Six break from hard rock mold with shiny new ‘VI’
English rock band You Me At Six is looking into the hopeful future of rock and roll on its latest album, VI, but it was a journey the quintet began with 2017’s Night People. You Me At…
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INTERVIEW: My Brightest Diamond a rebirth for Detroit’s Shara Nova
The challenge of parachuting into Noise Pop 2019 isn’t lost on Detroit’s Shara Nova. The mastermind behind the luminous experimental pop project My Brightest Diamond is thoughtfully preparing to bring her blend of classical technique and catchy…
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INTERVIEW: Nightly’s Jonathan Capeci on the duo’s creative vision and drive
Cousins Jonathan Capeci and Joey Beretta have turned a chance encounter with a music video director into a new artistic direction for their band, Nightly. Even after signing a major label deal with Interscope, the…
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Q&A: Felicia Day boldly going with sci-fi improv podcast ‘Voyage to the Stars’
While podcasts are experiencing a renaissance and anyone who’s anyone’s got one, Voyage to the Stars, which debuts Tuesday, still stands out. It’s an improv-yet-scripted comedic take on sci-fi adventure. Actress, writer and producer Felicia…
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INTERVIEW: Lone wolf Elise Davis howls her own tune with ‘Cactus’
Elise Davis isn’t sure what’s more surprising: that there are any lizards at all in Nashville, where the Arkansas singer-songwriter had moved, or that her cat, Enchilada, has just walked into her living room with…
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Q&A: Flor gains confidence, prepares tactful protest
NAPA — Zach Grace, McKinley Kitts, Dylan Bauld and Kyle Hill amble into the Napa Valley Expo bingo hall fresh off an energetic early set at Bottlerock, laughing and joking with each other, four voices…
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INTERVIEW: Gang of Four back with new album and tour, same punk attitude
When Gang of Four burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, England was in the middle of political swing to the right. High unemployment and a sluggish economy combined with growing wealth inequality and…
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INTERVIEW: Dave Keuning of The Killers refracts himself through solo ‘Prismism’
The Killers are back in the studio, but the band’s founding guitarist, Dave Keuning, is at home in San Diego. He’s contributing ideas to his band by email, just released his debut solo record, Prismism,…
