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Formed in 1977 in Los Angeles, seminal rockers X are lauded as one of the most important acts in the first wave of American punk, with their debut album, 1980’s Los Angeles, and legendary followup, 1981’s Wild Gift, frequently counted among the best records of all time. The later, in fact, was praised as album of the year…
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Formed more than 30 years ago in their native Tulsa, Oklahoma while still just kids, pop rock brother trio Hanson were only between 11 and 16 years old when they skyrocketed to international superstardom with their breakout, classic 1997 mega-hit “MMMBop” from their multi-platinum major label debut LP, Middle of Nowhere. Though the widespread…
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Hailing from Dallas, Texas, booming, percussive, and genre-bending hip hop artist BigXthaPlug got serious about music after a brief college football career was halted due to legal troubles, ultimately leading to a short stint in prison, during which the rapper began writing lyrics and entertaining more grand musical ambitions. Bursting onto the scene with…
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It’s been nearly 30 years since emo-tinged indie and post-hardcore outfit Cursive first emerged from the Omaha scene, forged by the same communal, musical upbringing that gave birth to acts like Bright Eyes, The Faint, and many, many other related, interconnected, and lesser-known projects. Though their early years showed promise and achieved regional acclaim, it wasn’t…
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Long Beach bluesy indie rockers Cold War Kids first got together, and nearly just as long since they exploded onto the scene to an unheard of level of buzz with their debut, Robbers & Cowards, winning over legions of fans and critics alike and becoming one of…
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Los Angeles hard rock outfit Badflower sprung onto the scene just over a decade ago (though several members had been playing together for a number of years already, first meeting as teens), attracting label interest and buzz beyond their native SoCal almost instantly thanks to their hard-hitting, energetic live show, and inking a major…
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The brainchild of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, video editor, and multimedia artist Cameron Lew, Ginger Root has been an organic and wholly self-sufficient success story, forged over several years of homegrown, independently released efforts, which helped him find early buzz. After signing to Nashville’s Acrophase Records, 2020 record Rikki helped the Southern California-based project break…
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It’s hard to be believe it’s now been more than 15 years since New York’s Vampire Weekend took the world by storm with their eponymous debut LP, released to an unbelievable mountain of hype just a few short years after first meeting and forming the band while students at Columbia. Back then, the power of blog…
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Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and…
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Since landing in Nashville in early 2021 and launching his solo project moony, Seth Findley, who spent his youth in Singapore and teens and young adulthood in Texas, and fronted bands before going solo, has become one of Music City’s most essential alt-rock fixtures, capturing our attention with a series of great early EPs…