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Spare Beans
On Friday, area rock ’n’ rollers Bruce Magnus will digitally release their new album. Spare Beans is the band’s third full-length in almost four years....
Get Your Coin Purses Out — Spotify Branching into A&R
I’m not saying my taste in music is better than yours? It’s just that, well, yeah, it kinda is. Listening to We Travel the...
Toasty of the Town
Jeffrey Chase Friedman recognizes that his new five-piece probably hit the scene with an unusual amount of anticipation for a brand-new band. Buzz has...
Cotinga
Landon Cabarubio was immediately gobsmacked by Njia Martin’s voice when he came across her music online a couple of years ago. He was just...
Russian Pianists Allowed to Play at Van Cliburn Competition
Hoo boy. Last week’s Russian invasion of Ukraine came at a parlous time for the Van Cliburn Piano Competition, which is holding its screening...
Boomer Tunes, Boomer Rules
In January’s Atlantic, music critic Ted Gioia assesses the alarming reality of the U.S. music market in the wake of a recent analysis performed...
Olive Vox-y
If you live long enough, it’s inevitable that you will witness, to some degree, the culture of your youth being recycled into a subsequent...
New Tunes from Leon Bridges, Me-Thinks, Bruce Magnus
Khruangbin and Leon Bridges’ Texas Moon
The press material accompanying Texas Moon is really pushing the narrative that the sequel to Texas Sun — the 2020...
So Long, Rail Leader
I wasn’t at the Rail Club Monday night, but area bass player and Jerry Jonestown Massacre podcast co-host Dustin Schneider was, and he shot a clip of...
The Troumatics Blast Off
Over the past few years, Stephen Troum decided that writing songs and playing out more were what he wanted to do. He joined local...
