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- Music, October 29, 2014
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The Rural Alberta Advantage
Canadian indie-rock trio examines loss and finality on new album
- The Japanese art form of kintsugi uses gold to strengthen and rebuild shattered ceramics. For Nils Edenloff, the lead singer and songwriter for the Alberta, Canada-based rock band The Rural Alberta Advantage, this was the perfect image to describe the feelings and themes presented on the band's new album, Mended With Gold, released in September.
- Music, September 24, 2014
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Kopecky Family Band
Nashville indie-rock band invigorated by creative spurt
- After two years of touring behind their 2012 release, Kids Raising Kids, Nashville-based indie-rock darlings Kopecky Family Band are ready to move on—hence their aptly titled tour Putting the Kids to Bed.
- Music, August 20, 2014
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Presidents of the United States of America
Kudos to You! shows Seattle alt-punk band is still having a blast
- Presidents of the United States of America drummer Jason Finn has some history with the state of Utah that goes beyond music. "I was locked up in Provo when I was a kid, in about 1981," he says.
- Music, May 15, 2014
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Matt Pond PA
Matt Pond looks back on his past 10 years as a musician
- A lot can change over the course of 10 years—just ask singer-songwriter and guitarist Matt Pond. Since his band, Matt Pond PA, released its seminal album Emblems in 2004, the New York-based artist’s
- Music, May 8, 2014
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William Fitzsimmons
William Fitzsimmons changes his musical approach after hitting a creative wall
- Before he started work on his newest record, Lions, singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons had an epiphany about the way he was approaching music. To put it mildly: He didn’t like what he was seeing.
- Music, May 1, 2014
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The Dodos
Challenge served The Dodos well on their latest album
- For an album that is as beautiful and melodic as Carrier is, the process behind the fifth release from the San Francisco-based indie-rock duo The Dodos didn’t begin as
- Music, April 10, 2014
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Katie Herzig
Nashville singer examines love and loss on Walk Through Walls
- Life on the road for a musician can be difficult for a laundry list of reasons, but as Katie Herzig learned in 2011, it’s also an awful place to grieve the loss of a loved one.
- Music, March 27, 2014
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Lost in the Trees
North Carolina folk-pop band achieves catharsis with Past Life
- On the latest album from North Carolina folk-pop band Lost in the Trees, Past Life— released in February—frontman Ari Picker seems to have achieved a mighty powerful catharsis.
- Music, March 20, 2014
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This Will Destroy You
Texas instrumental rockers need no words
- In an age where people love bite-size pop songs that have simple, catchy choruses, it’s rare that music without words can attract a large audience. But even those who aren’t mad instrumental-rock enthusiasts
- Music, March 6, 2014
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
Detroit band slows down to smell the roses on latest album
- In The Shawshank Redemption, one of the characters famously states: “The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.” Daniel Zott, one half of the Detroit-based indie-pop duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.,
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