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Louisville’s Forecastle Fest had a pretty epic 2019, boasting memorable performances from favorites like The Killers, Anderson .Paak, Maggie Rogers, CHVRCHES, Nelly, and Yungblud, easily ranking among our favorite fests of last season. One of our favorite regional events, bar none, we look forward to making the trek each and every year, and as the 2020 festival landscape begins…
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Officially a duo, though often mistaken for a single rapper, Minneapolis group Atmosphere are made up of rhymesmith Slug (Sean Michael Daley) and DJ/producer Ant (Anthony Davis). Originally formed in the early ’90s by Slug, along with some other high school friends/members who have since left the group, Atmosphere began to pick up steam and trace…
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The high highs and low lows of godlike musical fame is something we’ve seen countless young artists grapple with in public for generations, but in this modern musical climate where it’s ever-increasingly hard to become so super famous and wealthy so quickly, few artists have had as public a reckoning and transformation as pop sensation Justin…
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Back in the fall, we premiered local indie pop singer-songwriter Bre Kennedy‘s anthemic single “Broken Record,” a tune that dominated our playlists for months, and an excellent followup to her buzzy debut EP, last spring’s Jealous of Birds. At the time, we also announced that Kennedy was hard at work on her followup, which, excitingly, arrived today!…
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Since springing back to life just a few years ago after a near decade-long split, Massachusetts alt/emo outfit Piebald have been keeping intermittently active, undertaking a small run of festival and tour dates, where they’ve been met with enthusiasm and nostalgia for their criminally underrated original run from the late ’90s to late ’00s, which saw…
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Individually acclaimed for their respective decades of fantastic individual work, folk and Tex-Mex infused indie rock duo Calexico and indie folk troubadour Iron & Wine first teamed up for a collective release way back in ’05, a fan-favorite EP called In the Reins. Though they remained friendly and occasionally guested on each other’s work in the ensuing years, their…
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Since winding down a lengthy, world tour cycle in support of their stellar (and career-best) 2017 fifth LP After Laughter, a run which ended with an epic, hometown celebration dubbed Art + Friends in late 2018, acclaimed Nashville alt rock outfit Paramore have been understandably quiet. At the time, singer Hayley Williams told us in an…
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Though beloved, award winning r&b and soul singer Alicia Keys has hardly been off the grid the past few years- appearing as a judge on The Voice, hosting the Grammys, popping up on high-profile features- she hasn’t released an album since 2016, and hasn’t toured in neatly seven years, an eternity for a young artist of her caliber.…
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As we move forward into not only a new year, but a new decade, there is, inevitably, a period of reflection of the last- a sometimes strange and fast moving era for music, that saw indie rock begin at the absolute height of critical consciousness, before fading in buzz in more recent years. Of…