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A Rebuilt Giant Battle Monster Takes Aim for Japan

It's the eleventh hour and you've got a Japanese tour on the horizon. It's your first time taking your band out of the country and you're pretty damn excited. Suddenly, everyone else in the band...

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Top 10 live music venues in San Antonio, Texas

Texas is a hotbed for one of the most eclectic music scenes in the US, with world-class country, blues and Latin acts regularly topping the bill at San Antonio's bars and clubs Club Rio, the only...

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Portugal. The Man's 'Evil Friends'

Who cares? Apparently Portugal. The Man, in their new album, Evil Friends, does. The album showcases themes of giving up and not relying on anyone else that are prevalent through anthem-heavy choruses...

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Chantel McGregor

Brudenell Social Club, Leeds Sun 30th June 2013 Chantel is a very talented singer-songwriter and a formidable guitarist. See her tonight playing in her power trio with support band Albany Down. Date:...

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Forever the Sickest Kids' 'J.A.C.K.' album review

Author Rating: 5.0 Stars Forever the Sickest Kids’ album J.A.C.K. lets fans know that after experimenting with different sounds and themes they finally defined their pop-punk sound. FTSK released...

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Iration announce headlining Tour Dates; Tickets On Sale June 14 (VIDEO)

To celebrate the release of their new full-length album Automatic, reggae, pop, rock heavyweights Iration will be bringing their music to the masses this summer. Kicking things off with select dates...

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Review: Hollywood Bowl opens with Patti Austin, John Legend, Steven Tyler &...

You could credit the so-called super moon rising, the fireworks, the perfect weather or some combination thereof, but an unexplainable event occurred on Saturday during the annual "Opening Night at...

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Jim Beal Jr.: Fleet fingers do the talkin'

It's another packed midweek on the live-music front, with a guitar hero, varied rockers and more. Monte's guitar Luckenbach-raised, San Antonio-tempered guitarist, singer and songwriter Monte...

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>Music Review: Patty Griffin - "American Kid"

Patty Griffin's musical career has been a slow and steady climb. Now widely acclaimed as a songwriter, she's risen from humble beginnings as a singing waitress to win the Americana Music Association's...

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Allen Toussaint, Americana Take it 'Easy' This Week (Shorefire Media)

(Source: Shorefire Media) L-R: Sam Brady, Bill Davis (Dash Rip Rock), Danna Strong (Director/Operations, Americana), Tommy Malone (of the Subdudes), Allen Toussaint, Jed Hilly (Executive Director,...

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Appetite for Guns N' Roses (Video)

Rating for Guns N' Roses album 5 Introduction Named in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die", "Appetite for Destruction" as a whole is heavier than a lot of other albums coming from the...

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Headliner list for the Waterfront Blues Festival 2013

Yes, Robert Plant will be in town. The winner of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters will headline the Waterfront Blues Festival on Sunday, July 7 at...

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Jim Beal Jr.: Spook's over but music pickings are scary good

Halloween has passed. The World Series is finished. And there's plenty of music to keep us all busy. Move out. Sold-out Lyle Back in the day when Lyle Lovett first made music in the front room at...

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Music makers: Feel good sounds

To Be Loved Michael Buble Warner Music THE young crooner from Canada has co-written three original songs in this 17-track album, his sixth studio offering. Buble co-wrote It’s A Beautiful Day, After...

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Union hall special Christian Coleman's Guild acoustic (Video)

Whether with his bandmates as Blue Zen Band or solo Blue Zen in a smaller more intimate setting he delivers. Blues began as a means of expressing the toils of labor, slavery and poverty. Some played...

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Exclusive: Chris Janson on Tim McGraw cut, Guns N' Roses songwriting and more

Examiner caught up with Janson during this year's CMA Music Festival to chat about his red carpet experience, his influences growing up, playing the Grand Ole Opry and spending time with Merle...

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Warren Hood fiddles around with a different kind of sound

Some album titles speak to lyrical themes that occur and recur in a set of songs. Others, such as "The Warren Hood Band," don't aspire to such loftiness. Which isn't to say the title of Hood's album...

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With country, Staind vocalist Aaron Lewis returns to his ‘childhood...

Aaron Lewis says when it comes to his music and creativity, he simply refuses to be told how to do things. The country artist, also known as vocalist and primary songwriter for the metal-tinged hard...

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Critic's pick: Bill Frisell, 'Big Sur'

Five songs into Big Sur, the immensely fun new recording by Bill Frisell, we stumble onto a sound that, on the surface, seems new. But like so many explorations the guitarist has embarked on before,...

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The best rock picks, June 14

Raleigh songstress Jeanne Jolly tends to get lumped in with the Americana crowd, which isn’t a bad place to be. But she’s...

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