When he was a child, Scott Hutchison was painfully shy. No amount of prodding would get him to come out of his shell and play with the other children. His mother, taking notice, called him her little frightened rabbit. Fast-forward a few years, and Hutchison, now a young man, was looking getting a band together with his brother Grant and some friends. What to call it? Frightened Rabbit is the name that stuck. But Frightened Rabbit's sound isn't exactly timid. It can be at times lush and anthemic, at times biting in the grandest British guitar rock tradition. The band really got going in 2004 when Hutchison made the move from his native Selkirk to Glasgow. They released their well-received, debut full-length Sing the...
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There've been a lot of real-life brothers in rock 'n' roll: Ray and Dave, Duane and Gregg, Angus and Malcolm, Eddie and Alex, Liam and Noel, and the list could go on. Even when they don't exactly get along, there's some ineffable musical connection that only blood allows. That's sure holds true for Texas's own The Wheeler Brothers. The band is three brothers, two buddies, and together they make a sound that's part alt-country, part pop, part rock 'n' roll and all Texan. The brothers Wheeler, Nolan (guitar, vocals and piano), Tyler (bass) and Patrick (drums), started jamming with friends Danny Matthews (guitar and vocals) and Danny Matthews (lap steel, guitar and vocals) in high school. But it wouldn't be after college,...
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