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- Music, Music Picks April 11, 2018
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Live Music Picks: April 12-18
Judas Priest, The Residents, Clownvis Presley, The Breeders and more.
- They're one of heavy metal's biggest and most influential acts, but Judas Priest shows a folk influence in taking their name from a Bob Dylan tune ("The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest") and covering Joan Baez' "Diamonds and Rust" (coincidentally a song about Dylan) on their third album, Sin After Sin (1977).
- Music, March 28, 2018
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Loving the Alienation
Helios Creed and Chrome continue making iconoclastic music for outcasts.
- When seminal San Francisco post-punk band Chrome's debut album The Visitation (1976, Siren) dropped, it was disorienting, discombobulating and alienating.
- Music, Music Picks March 21, 2018
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Live Music Picks: March 22-28
U.S. Girls, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Hell’s Belles, Columbia Jones and more.
- Canadian-American musician Meghan Remy seems like the noise-pop world's answer to Cat Power:
- Music, Music Picks March 14, 2018
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Live Music Picks: March 15-21
Coin, Bon Jovi, Cut Chemist, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea and more.
- (No disrespect to Coin, but we've covered them before.)
- Music, Music Picks February 28, 2018
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Live Music Picks: March 1-7
Mr. Pickles Thrash-tacular, Gary Mullen, Blitzen Trapper, Mr. Carmack and more.
- There's no way that Bay-Area thrashers Exodus, in their salad days, thought that in 30 years they'd be on tour promoting a cartoon about a diabolical canine serial killer named Mr. Pickles.
- Music, Music Picks February 21, 2018
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Live Music Picks: February 22-28
Busty and the Bass, Margo Price, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Dorothy and more.
- So there's Chicago soul, Memphis soul, New Orleans soul, Philly soul ... But why doesn't anyone every talk about Montreal soul?
- Music, Music Picks February 14, 2018
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Live Music Picks: February 15-21
Cake, LP, Radio Moscow, Walk the Moon and more.
- One payday evening in 1994, the new-release wall at CD Warehouse in Taylorsville didn't offer a helluva lot.
- Music, Music Picks February 7, 2018
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Live Music Picks: February 8-14
Cashmere Cat, Diet Cig, Dizzy Wright, Caroline’s Spine and more.
- Magnus August Høiberg—aka Grammy-nominated Norwegian DJ/turntablist/producer Cashmere Cat—cut his teeth as an EDM guy at EDM festivals, and his music is more designed for bedroom introverts than frenzied club crowds.
- Music, Music Picks January 31, 2018
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Live Music Picks: February 1-7
Reverend Horton Heat, The Dickies, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Planet What and more.
- Since 1985, musical spiritual leader Jim Heath has been evangelizing pretty much without rest.
- Music, Music Picks January 3, 2018
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Live Music Picks: January 4-10
Richard Thompson, Jail City Rockers, Arturo Sandoval, Booker T. Jones and more.
- English singer/songwriter Richard Thompson has had a five-decade career, beginning in the classic folk group Fairport Convention, but he's never quite garnered much adulation Stateside.
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At the Forefront of Folk
Carol Edison's national recognition points to Utah's strong folk-arts program.
February 02, 2011
Best Coast
L.A.'s Best Coast is an “overnight sensation” that didn’t happen overnight.
October 27, 2010
