In an origins story perfectly tailored for a folk band, Paper Bird formed when a group of friends just a couple years out of high school took a trip to the mountains of Colorado.
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Let’s just get this over with: The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger is the self-admittedly silly moniker under which Sean Lennon and model Charlotte Kemp Muhl play psychedelic, ’60s-throwback music.
Let’s just get this over with: The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger is the self-admittedly silly moniker under which Sean Lennon and model Charlotte Kemp Muhl play psychedelic, ’60s-throwback music.
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Cody Bryan is the frontman for the eponymously named Cody Bryan Band, but he hasn’t always played country music.
Cody Bryan is the frontman for the eponymously named Cody Bryan Band, but he hasn’t always played country music.
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Charmed by enthusiasm, studio producer trains Skating Polly
Skating Polly partners with Hook Echo Sound to learn the nuts and bolts of the recording process.
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Odyssey of the mind
The No. 1 thing that Brian Haas — pianist and founder of Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey — wants to get across is gratitude. Of course, a lot of musicians say this. But Brian Haas perhaps has more to be thankful for than your typical grateful artist. Think about it. Haas started a jazz band in […]
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Sporting goods
Punk band Bad Sports started eight years ago. Bassist Daniel Friend and guitarist Orville Neeley had been in a band together previously, but one day, Neeley showed up with demos of new songs. “It was way better than the band we were in,” Friend said, “so we decided to do that instead.” Bad Sports met […]
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Sleighing the dragon
Sleigh Bells’ most recent album, Bitter Rivals, was released in September of last year. And after five months of promoting and touring for the record, guitarist Derek Miller sounds bored with it. “I’m kind of over it,” he said. “I mean, I finished recording it last June, so it’s kind of older for me now.” […]
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Higher ground
Local country band Lower 40 — with a top 30 single and having had shows in front of audiences numbering in the thousands — ostensibly became a band because of vocalist Kyle Earhart’s height. In 2011, Land Run Records needed a band to be in a film. “They had this vision of a trio-type band […]
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Rachel Brashear — Revolution
The compilation wastes no time; it begins with a single guitar playing a classic rock riff and is soon accompanied by bass and drums and Brashear’s voice singing, “We push and pull, we push and pull, we push until the balance is uneven,” with tangible frustration. The EP is filled with slicing, bluesy guitar riffs, […]
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In the saddle
In high school, Zach Preston, Nathaniel Davis and Ryan Gilbert learned how to play music by covering their favorite bands, The Black Keys and Kings of Leon. Their interpretations of the songs evolved, and eventually, they started writing their own music. Buffalo Rodeo was born. The guys played battle-of-the-bands competitions and started college at Western […]