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The Alabama Shakes on Success and Songwriting
At a time when major rock bands are an increasingly rare breed, and new success stories are even harder to find, Alabama Shakes are a big, bright beam of hope. ... -
Industry Profile: Gigmor
Craigslist has long since replaced telephone poles as the spot where most bands advertise open slots that need to be filled by new guitarists, bassists or drummers. But will a ... -
Signing Story: Brothers Born
Brothers Born began in a bar, which might explain why it’s such a relaxed band with such an easygoing record deal. The two-man folk project gives heavy-metal guitarist Joel Stroetzel ... -
Album Review: Babymetal - Babymetal Reissue (8/10)
Metalheads love spectacle. Kitsch, however, can be a much tougher sell. Defying all odds is Babymetal, three teenage Japanese girls who shockingly won over hordes of knuckle-draggers last year with ... -
Album Review: Liturgy - The Art Work (9/10)
Well, don’t say Hunter Hunt-Hendrix didn’t warn you. Liturgy’s frontman promised the follow-up to 2011’s Aesthethica, widely hailed as one of the year’s best black-metal records, would mark a departure ... -
Album Review: Sufjan Stevens - "Carrie & Lowell" (9/10)
Sufjan Stevens began by releasing five albums in five years. It’s taken him 10 years to issue his sixth and seventh—a telltale sign of maturity. The singer/songwriter’s latest, titled in ... -
Singers on Singing 2015
What’s the secret to long-lasting vocal cords? Which foods are kryptonite for singers? What’s it like duetting Aerosmith covers with Steven Tyler? For this exclusive, genre-crossing collection of singers, we ... -
Album Review: Morgoth - Ungod (7/10)
Following At the Gates’ 2014 first studio LP in 19 years, fellow European death-metallers Morgoth follow suit with a new record that’s the same number of years in the waiting. ... -
Live Review: Hit Me 90s at Saint Rocks
The Players: Britney “Left Eye” Aguilera (Mara Hitner), lead vocals; Suge White (Joseph DiLeva), bass, vocals; Chazz Starr (Pancho Burgos), keyboards, vocals; Wayne Grohl (Jon Poli), drums, vocals; Mookie Blaylock ... -
Signing Story: OWS
A boy band that blew up, then went kaput. An incurable, crippling illness. A renowned, deceased chanteuse. Macabre as it may sound, multifaceted artist OWS––also known as Oritse Williams––has those ...