There’s probably no shortage of reasons Nikolas Thompson relocated across the Pacific. Searching for some sort of artistic truth and inspiration must have been among them.
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Music Made Me: James Hammontree
Sex Snobs’ and Power Pyramid’s multitalented rock enthusiast offers a glimpse into his informed and reverential musical universe.
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Indie-rock act Plain Speak nearly lost everything before it began
Like so many in the wake of last year’s devastating tornadoes, Plain Speak was forced to rebuild from the ground up.
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Album review: The Bourgeois – We’re Still in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars
The Bourgeois want to be both well-liked and dangerous, but those two things are immensely difficult to pull off simultaneously.
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Signs point to yes for JD McPherson
JD McPherson has always been a talent, one Oklahomans readily have adored since his early days with The Starkweather Boys in the mid-2000s.
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Matt Jewett’s emotionally charged songs strike a brooding punk-rock chord
Playing live is a matter of life or death for Oklahoma folk-punk troubadour Matt Jewett — sometimes, quite literally.
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Album review: The Flaming Lips – With a Little Help from My Fwends
Most creativity does demand insanity, and over the past decade, The Flaming Lips have operated almost exclusively in this way.
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The roaring electro-pop of Wildcat! Wildcat! is worth getting excited about
Formed in the heart of Los Angeles, surrounded by millions dreaming of fame and fortune, Wildcat! Wildcat! found its magic in giving up on that shared fantasy.
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The turnover in music — for bands, venues, record stores, studios and everything else related to that world — is as high as you’ll see in any facet of modern society and culture.
The turnover in music — for bands, venues, record stores, studios and everything else related to that world — is as high as you’ll see in any facet of modern society and culture.
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It was the Seattleite’s frankness on matters of faith and the questions thereof that drew so many to his work.
It was the Seattleite’s frankness on matters of faith and the questions thereof that drew so many to his work.