The Christchurch band evokes the heyday of New Zealand’s Dunedin sound.
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Ultimate Painting Remembers Pop’s Past
Members of Veronica Falls and Mazes Make a Perfect Pair
Members of Veronica Falls and Mazes make a perfect pair.
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Miguel: What’s Normal Anyway
Daniel Sannwald All the talk is of Miguel Pimentel as a 21st-century soul man—a modern savior of R&B. But the first musical sound on Wildheart is of a thick, buzzy electric guitar riff, the kind you’d hear in an alt-rock relic from the ’90s, or even tumbling off the locals’ stage at the county fair. […]
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What’s Normal Anyway
Miguel Follows His Own Wildheart
Miguel follows his own Wildheart.
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Live Free or Die
Vattnet Viskar’s Outsider Metal
New Hampshire’s Vattnet Viskar make metal that doesn’t fit in any particular scene.
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Vattnet Viskar: Metal from New Hampshire
HEAVY MUSIC can come from anywhere. But perhaps more than in any other genre, like-minded metal bands tend to congregate into scenes, and those scenes come to define the heavy sound of their towns. There’s Bay Area thrash. New Orleans is famous for sludge. Tampa’s a death-metal town. Here in Portland, we’re becoming known for […]
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Pickathon Diaries: Tearing up the Schedule
Photos by Autumn Andel. See all her incredible Pickathon 2015 pics here. After a decade of hearing about the greatness of Pickathon from friends, family, and strangers, I finally made my first trip to the farm this year. I live in Bend, so it’s a three-hour drive for me, and I got a later start […]
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Homeward Bound
Alice Gerrard Follows the Music
At 81, Alice Gerrard continues to follow the music.
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Life in the Way
Phases of the Velvet Teen
The Velvet Teen remerges with its first album in nine years.
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Nic Hessler Bounced Back After an Illness with a Charming Debut Album
Ellen Wildhagen Soft Connections by Nic Hessler At this point in time, MySpace has now been the butt of jokes for longer than it was the world’s most popular social network. But its influence on music lives on, not only in superstars like Nicki Minaj and Lily Allen, who got their big breaks on the […]
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Making Connections
Nic Hessler Bounces Back
After an illness, Nic Hessler bounces back with a charming debut.