Electric Six making a living outta rock ‘n’ roll
Tyler Spencer still dreams of the $750 lemons he drove around Detroit while trying to make his bands work in the '90s. "There was one where the floor was actually...
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Shovels & Rope was born from a love of music
On March 26, 2009, the parents of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent met for the first time on Wadmalaw Island, in Charleston County, S.C. It was an awkward and...
Tom Jones: ‘Singing is saving my life now’ since wife’s death
In 1964, Tom Jones was just about broke, forcing his wife Linda to work at a factory, when he released a rock 'n' roll song called "Chills and Fever." The...
Beach Slang is loud and fast, fast and loose
Everything about James Alex's decision to quit his dependable job as a graphic designer and become a full-time, full throated, Replacements-style rock 'n' roller at age 42 made perfect sense....
Danny Brown’s muse? ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
While writing his upcoming album, "Atrocity Exhibition," Detroit rapper Danny Brown spent a lot of time absorbing Larry David's nebbishy machinations in the HBO comedy "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Brown, 35,...
Hannibal Buress is here, he’s there, he’s everywhere
The thing Hannibal Buress mainly remembers about visiting New Orleans is the parades. A friend told him that for $300, "you can have your own parade on a day's notice."...
North Coast Fest: Your guide to the boom
With an admirably eclectic lineup of hip-hop stars, electronic-dance DJs and jam bands, Chicago's 7-year-old North Coast Music Festival will either unite music fans or carve them into disparate groups....
Living Colour’s social commentary game still strong
One day in the mid-'90s, while Living Colour's Vernon Reid was taking a break outside Unique Recording Studios in New York, the Notorious B.I.G. pulled up in a gray Mercedes....
Diplo likes to bite the EDM hand that feeds him
It wasn't long ago that rapper M.I.A. and producer Diplo made electrifying hip-hop together — influential singles like "Bucky Done Gun," "Paper Planes" and "Tell Me Why" came out of...
Elizabeth Cook’s soul is in her songs
Sadly, country singer Elizabeth Cook can't remember the moment she decided to rhyme "Gibraltar" with "Little Walter" in her new song "Dyin' " — sometime in winter 2015, she thinks,...