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Born: Oct. 26, 1986, on an Army base in West Germany.
Sounds like: A thugged-out West Coast version of
Kid Cudi who wants to go clubbin’ with 50 Cent but ends up taking a
bunch of ’shrooms an
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Yann Tiersen tones down the accordion and turns up the drums.
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For most of those who know his music, French songwriter
Yann Tiersen will forever be associated with whimsical tunes played with
a jaunty joie de vivre on an accordion. But ask Devin Gallagher,
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When the St. Johns Bizarre began six years ago, it was a
low-profile street fair with crafts, beer and bands. Today it’s a
slightly higher-profile street fair with more crafts, more beer and rea
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Formed: 1994 in San Francisco.
Sounds like: A series of intense couple fights that always end in cuddling.
For fans of: Sonic Youth, Electric Light Orchestra, the Dandy Warhols, Letters to Cle
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How Colin Stetson helped save the sax from cheesy ’80s purgatory.
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Last year was a good one for the sax.
From the commercial airwaves (Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory,” Katy Perry’s
“Last Friday Night”) to the indie blogosphere (Destroyer’s Kaputt, Tune-
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Dreamboat/Deerhunter Lockett Pundt takes his newly epic show on the road.
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[UNCHAINED MELODIES] The idolization of handsome young male musicians is not the sole province of Beatlemania, Tiger Beat magazine
or the Jonas family. Lockett Pundt, Lotus Plaza’s frontman and a
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Born: 1941 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Sounds like: The most heartfelt, amazing love letter imaginable in a language you probably don’t understand.
For fans of: Aster Aweke, Mulatu Astatke, The Eith
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How an old Chevy, the Army and Art Blakey made Cedar Walton’s career.
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Some people go to New York to be discovered. When jazz
pianist Cedar Walton drove his Chevy across the country to get there in
1955, it was for anonymity. “Everybody knew me in Dallas,” he rec
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Pioneering Polish composer Michal Jacaszek’s music is part man, part machine.
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[ELECTROACOUSTIC] The lines separating traditional
acoustic music and music that requires laptops, synthesizers or drum
machines have been getting blurry as of late. The crisscross has roots
goi
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Born: Betty Haskins, Jan. 29, 1946
Sounds like: A throwback—the good kind—to the chitlin’ circuit, armed with a savvy, personalized rock repertoire.
For fans of: Tina Turner, crossover R&B
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