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The fervent fans of the Growlers’ ‘beach goth’ sound only seem like a cult

September 5, 2019 at 11:56 a.m.

Early on in the Growlers' career, someone labeled the band's sunny-but-dark mix of surf, pop, scuzz and psych "Beach Goth," and the label stuck. The band has since leaned in:...

Your guide to the shimmy at North Coast Music Festival

August 27, 2019 at 9:11 a.m.

Although there are few species in nature more outwardly confident than the EDM artist, many of them began making music in the same state of anxiety and confusion as everybody...

Papa Roach has survived the nu metal fallout like roaches outlive nuclear winter

August 22, 2019 at 10:12 a.m.

Many of their contemporaries from the nu metal boom years are gone now, but Papa Roach, much to their own surprise, endure. Born in the prison town of Vacaville, Calif....

The Alarm and Modern English are on tour together, probably where they belong

August 14, 2019 at 11:04 a.m.

Veteran British bands the Alarm and Modern English didn't exactly come up together, but their career trajectories were similar. Both bands found success in America during the Reagan-Thatcher years, and...

Country star Morgan Wallen is growing up fast, from ‘Voice’ to traveling in fast company

August 8, 2019 at 9:26 a.m.

Before newly minted country star Morgan Wallen went on the TV singing competition "The Voice" in 2014, he had never been on an airplane before, hadn't spent much time at...

The Revivalists (left to right: Andrew Campanelli, Rob Ingraham, George Gekas, Ed Williams, David Shaw, Michael Girardot, Zack Feinberg, PJ Howard) recently cemented their crossover stardom by opening for the Stones.

‘Wish I Knew You’ was the track that made almost everybody, all of a sudden, know the Lolla-bound Revivalists

August 1, 2019 at 9:03 a.m.

By the time the New Orleans-based band the Revivalists released "Wish I Knew You," the loose-limbed funk pop single that would change their lives, the group had been together almost...

Because somebody’s gotta do it — first bands of the day at Lollapalooza

July 31, 2019 at 1:33 p.m.

Cast of Characters: Willaris. K: Australian EDM artist/producer Jack McAllister's latest project. His most recent single is the early Eno-like "Natural Selection/Cobaki Sky (Prequel)." Bayonne: Austin-based artist Roger Sellers, who...

Your mini guide to a few rising stars at Pitchfork Music Festival

July 17, 2019 at 10:30 a.m.

Sometimes after gigs, fans will approach Julia Holter and tell her that her show was the best they ever saw. She is embarrassed to even bring this up. "I don't...

Andrew Bird performs at a sold-out show at the Fifth Third Bank Ballpark in Geneva Sunday July 8, 2012.

Andrew Bird still whistling while he works, even when the tunes get heavy

July 11, 2019 at 7:56 a.m.

After the 2016 election, singer-songwriter-violinist Andrew Bird began mulling over what would eventually become "My Finest Work Yet," his uncharacteristically political new album. "Finest" applies most of the standard features...

Carly Rae Jepsen talks about swords, and life after the massive ‘Call Me Maybe’

July 3, 2019 at 9:57 a.m.

It started off on Tumblr, as many matters pertaining to Canadian pop star Carly Rae Jepsen do. One of her fans thought it would be nice if she had a...

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