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Blues-rock guitar heroine Samantha Fish’s latest album was met with a little resistance from longtime fans but, during a recent phone chat, she tells me that that’s something she’s okay with: “Everyone initially freaks out because it’s different. They’re like, ‘Tech N9ne? Synthesizers? No!’… but my favorite reactions are...
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“I’m bringing this vintage TV onto the stage. At Lolla we played a Simpsons episode. We’re incorporating this Adult Swim vibe into our show, while we play these sad, heavy songs,” says Sophie Sputnik, better known as Waltzer. Waltzer is garage rock from a former musical theatre kid and...
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Earlier this week May Rio (of Poppies) released a music video for “Reservations,” a morosely quirky ballad about being smitten with a recovering junkie. The video, directed by Michael Jenson, was rendered on Mario Paint and edited on VCRs. The audiovisual combo is a poignant reminder of the early-mid...