Posted October 09, 2013in The Sound
“Envy Corps is Radiohead for Coldplay fans.” That’s how the band has referenced itself in T-shirt form. And curiously, whether you take that as a statement of self-congratulation or one [...]
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Posted October 02, 2013in The Sound
In a time when rock-n-roll was making large, exploratory steps away from the three-chord riffs of its 1950’s birth and branching out into harder rock and psychedelic sounds, The Moody [...]
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Posted September 25, 2013in The Sound
Switchfoot, the San Diego-based five-piece, got its start in the world of contemporary Christian music. And while the band’s members have never shied away from their faith and continue to [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in The Sound
Samuel Beam is a laid back dude. Chatting over the phone from his home in South Carolina, his voice doesn’t have the high-mileage road weariness of William Elliot Whitmore. His [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in The Sound
Anna Gebhardt is kind of a Zen master when it comes to self-effacing humility. “I’m just learning as I go,” she said over coffee. “I don’t really know what I’m [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in The Sound
Bonne Finken and Sharika Soal sat in a booth at Raccoon River Brewery and, like just about everyone else last week, talked about Miley Cyrus. The pair have a slew [...]
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Posted August 28, 2013in The Sound
“I’ll be driving in the car, and I’ll have a melody. Last night as I was going to bed, I had a melody idea in my head, so I just [...]
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Posted August 21, 2013in The Sound
Said The Whale isn’t as well-known of a Canadian import as, say, Beiber or maple syrup, but the Vancouver-based five-piece has already established itself in its native country as one [...]
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Posted August 14, 2013in The Sound
We live in a disposable society. Remember, like, an hour ago when “Gangam Style” was all the rage and the video became the first on YouTube to amass a billion [...]
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Posted August 07, 2013in The Sound
Violent Fade is something of a niche within a niche. An instrumental three-piece, the band straddles a line within ambient rock that’s more structured than a jam band and more [...]
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