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The Beat Generation: DVAS
posted: February 13, 2011
Don’t let their name fool you. I mean, the name DVAS is pretty loaded. One would think these guys might be a bunch of primadonnas: curt, demanding and spoiled. However, Toronto’s DVAS (pronounced either D-V-A-S…
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Running Down A Dream
posted: February 9, 2011
Singer-songwriter Shane Gamble confesses that sometimes songs come to him in dreams. This might explain the sleepy, shuffling quality of his single, Turn My Way. The Fredericksburg, Maryland, native is just south of the Mason…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Mike Watt – From Minutemen to Rock Opera
posted: February 9, 2011
Like almost everything else Mike Watt does, even his way of answering the phone is full of endearingly offbeat humor and quirky charisma; the first ring is barely over when the alt-rock icon picks up…
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Sweet & Toothsome
posted: February 7, 2011
Katie Cole was raised on a musical diet of Rolling Stones and Maria Callas”watching the former on TV with her mother and singing the latter at the piano with her father. But all those rangy…
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Your Country's Right Here: JaneDear Girls Rock, Country Style
posted: February 3, 2011
The JaneDear Girls mix rockin' country with fun and femininity.
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Fantastic Voyage
posted: February 2, 2011
Ex Norwegian is one of those wily bands that makes categorization impossible. In the one instant you’ve decided their ethereal melodies sound like The Beatles, they leap into frenzied post-punk that has Pixies written all…
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