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Rachael Yamagata Gets By With a Little Help

Crowd funding from fans frees her to create Chesapeake.

By Cory Graves
Dec 1, 2011

Ever since peer-to-peer services like Napster first began cropping up, music industry professionals have trumpeted warnings about how file-sharing was not only directly harming musicians, but how it would ultimately lead to the collapse of the record industry. Beyond the legal issues arising from the music piracy aspects of P2P...
Q&A: The Wheeler Brothers Expand Their Base

By Cory Graves
Nov 23, 2011

Brothers Nolan, Danny, and Pat Wheeler have been performing with their current lineup (along with college classmate Danny Matthews and childhood friend A.J. Molyneaux) for about only 18 months, but in that short time they've already managed to impress a few country luminaries like Ray Benson of Asleep at the...
Modest Mouse Nail the Beat, but Lose Their Sloppy Sincerity

By Cory Graves
Nov 11, 2011

Modest Mouse Palladium Ballroom November 10 Better than: the person who did a karaoke version of "Float On" at the Double Wide after the show A decade ago I counted Modest Mouse amongst my very favorite bands. Ten years, two full-lengths, a pair of EPs, and a handful of car...
The Conversation: Lead Singer Stage Behavior, How Much is Too Much?

By Cory Graves
Nov 10, 2011

Make no mistake; there is a big difference between a run-of-the-mill lead singer and a bona fide frontman. Huge, really. Not just anybody has the magnetism required to convince 20,000 people at the American Airlines Center to raise their hands above their heads and clap, or the charm to make...
10 Cocktail Suggestions While Listening To Dallas Bands

By Cory Graves
Nov 10, 2011

Earlier this week we came across the website, Drinkify, which claims to "generate the perfect cocktail recipe to accompany any music." Naturally, as fans of both music and all types of alcohol, the site proved to be the perfect happy hour time kill. Our findings? The site is not only...

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