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RIFF RADIO: Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down on his top SF shows ahead of GGP gig
System of a Down, courtesy. There’s an interconnectedness to the each of the branches that grow from the creative organism of System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian. Whether it’s gigging with the band he’s played with for nearly three decades, launching new band Seven Hours After Violet, cheering…
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INTERVIEW: Lake Street Dive ready for a joyful rebellion with ‘Good Together’
Lake Street Dive, courtesy. Akie Bermiss says Good Together, the new album by Lake Street Dive, is all about joyful rebellion against the heaviness of the world right now. The band knew it wanted to focus on keeping the music fun, according to the keyboardist and vocalist. Lake Street…
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INTERVIEW: Country rising star Megan Moroney more than lucky
Megan Moroney, courtesy CeCe Dawson. When Georgian Megan Moroney moved to Nashville in 2020 to pursue a music industry career, she wasn’t completely sure what that would mean. So the University of Georgia grad, who hadn’t written her first song until three years earlier in her freshman year, set…
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INTERVIEW: Lindsey Stirling chooses sides and goes on her hero’s journey
Lindsey Stirling, courtesy. Fans of Lindsey Stirling get to see different versions of the violinist and dancer in the video for “Eye of the Untold Her,” a single from her new album, Duality. There’s the young Stirling mocked by judges of “America’s Got Talent” in 2010 and at various…
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INTERVIEW: Akira Galaxy finds inspiration at home in the PNW
Akira Galaxy performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2024. Courtesy. NAPA, Calif. — Akira Galaxy Ament had moved to Los Angeles to pursue her music career, but it wasn’t until the pandemic had struck in 2020 and she went back home to…
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INTERVIEW: Hootie and the Blowfish take their ‘summer camp’ party on the road
Hootie and The Blowfish perform at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, Calif. on June 29, 2019. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Back when Hootie and the Blowfish were first blowing up, after the release of their 1994 debut album, Cracked Rear View, their big tours consisted of crisscrossing the country on a…
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INTERVIEW: The Warning cooks up new sounds on ’Keep Me Fed’
The Warning, courtesy. The successes that might have overwhelmed an up and coming band instead strengthened The Warning. The Monterrey, Mexico band toured relentlessly in support of its third studio album, Error, its first on a major label. The sister trio played festivals around the world, opened stadium shows for…
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INTERVIEW: Brooke Alexx ready to spill the tea on debut album ‘BIG MOUTH,’ tour
Brooke Alexx, courtesy. With “All My Exes’ Moms” hitting over 16 million streams and new single “Younger Guys” out now, New Jersey singer Brooke Alexx is ready to share her anticipated debut album, BIG MOUTH, with the world. BIG MOUTH Brooke Alexx Oct. 4 Get the album on Amazon…
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Interview: SHAED growing its family, looking to the future on new LP ‘Spinning Out’
SHAED, courtesy Nicole Mago. A house can become too small for an expanding family. Twins Max and Spencer Ernst and Spencer’s wife, Chelsea Lee, had lived together in Washington, D.C. for several years as their band, SHAED, exploded with hit single “Trampoline” in 2018. Spinning Out SHAED BMG, June…
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INTERVIEW: Oakland high-schooler NAIMA on playing BottleRock, her first single
NAIMA performs during BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 24, 2024. This story was first published in the M-A Chronicle. NAPA, Calif. — Among wine moms, rock bands and DJs emerges a 14-year-old and her guitar. “I’m NAIMA,” she tells the crowd before diving into…
