March 15, 2013 12:08 am by: Alexandria Mayo
With a hit record and a unique sound, Lianne La Havas has burst out of Britain fully-formed. Despite being just twenty-three years of age, La Havas has captured ears with a hand…...
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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... » read more
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In 2007, Australian singer
Missy Higgins had one million global album sales and significant TV time on American talk shows with Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno, and Jimmy Kimmel. But Higgins walked away from it all, citing an...
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The French-English band
Stereolab has a sizable cult following, thanks to nearly two decades of imparting their graceful electronic sound onto the independent music scene. So it was with heavy hearts that many greeted the news of the...
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Florida-turned-New York duo
Blonds are impossibly adorable. There's hardly a photo of the boyfriend and girlfriend team Jordy Asher and Carie Rae where the two aren't in some sort of embrace. But for all the lovey-dovey cuteness,...
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For
Family Band, it's all about contrasts. The New York group is built around Kim Krans, a quiet artist-turned-singer, and her husband, Jonny Ollsin, a former heavy metal guitarist. The two hand-built a cabin in rural...
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Three of the group's members (Johnson, Russell and Thielen) were kind enough to stop by KUT's Studio 1A for a session....
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Hundred Visions has flown fairly under the radar locally, but have gained some percolating national buzz as of late....
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Way back in 2009,
The Tontons gave an interview with the
Houston Chronicle in which frontwoman Asli Omar had this to say about...
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The band is a stripped-down outfit that spices its folk-inflected rock 'n' roll with heavy doses of garage and bits of psych....
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Leeds, England folk-pop quintet The Dunwells recently stopped by KUT's Studio 1A for a session with our very own Jay Trachtenberg....
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On "Pretend You Love Me," Sonny & The Sunsets openly pine for a lost romantic relationship, but they know how to make it sound inviting to everyone else....
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While
Rhett Miller might be primarily known as the frontman for alternative country stalwarts
the Old 97's, it's hard to box him in. That's because Miller has always followed...
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On June 26, the purveyors of the neo-Laurel Canyon sound are returning to release a new record called The Tarnished Gold....
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They're signed to Matador Records, and they've gotten nods from
Rolling Stone magazine, yet
the Young are still largely unknown in their hometown. But their second album,
Dub Egg, looks...
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Cold Specks is a rising new artist who found her name through the writings of none other than James Joyce....
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