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by Geno Thackara First she gives the guitar a couple firm taps. With each one, a small jiggly blob of white light appears near her hand and then fades away in a moment. Next she scratches her fingernails around its surface, leaving glowing trails behind like afterimages inside Read More

by Jane Roser “It’s the middle of winter, there’s three inches of ice on the highway, we’re in our tour buses and semis were off the road left and right.” Several days after the Blizzard of 2016 furiously dumped over two feet of snow on the East Coast, Allman Brothers Band Read More

by Geno Thackara You don’t always know where to find Julie Slick from one month (or maybe one week) to the next. She could be recording in a studio on either side of the Atlantic, slinging her bass onstage in Adrian Belew’s power trio or her duo EchoTest Read More

by Bud Fulginiti You can see a symphony orchestra led by a conductor, but they play composed music, not improvisational.  A jam band may improvise, but they will lack persistent, focused direction. For the completely singular experience of seeing and hearing live music being Read More

by Jane Roser One of the most inspiring movies I remember watching as a kid was Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Jimmy Stewart portrays a quiet, naive small town patriot who is suddenly thrust into Washington politics where his dreams and ideals are shattered when he discovers that, Read More

by Zach Fraley Longevity is one of the hardest feats to achieve in the music industry. Staying relevant is a difficult task when so many artists all dream of selling out shows for years to come. Yet somehow, David Uosikkinen has used three and a half decades of his life to Read More