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By Brian Sweeney Producer Tim Pagnotta calls them the pioneers of post-punk soul. Makes sense, because Alt-rock trendsetters the Neon Trees are getting some major sun through a new deal they inked on Mercury Records. Last month, the band hit #1 on the Alternative Rock Specialty Read More

By Randy LoBasso “I’m always looking around a room and going, ‘Okay, who’s full of fucking shit here?’ And usually, the answer is everybody,” Ben Weasel tells me over the phone from his Madison, Wisconsin residence. It’s tough being one Read More

By Randy LoBasso The first thing you hear when you pop in Bells Bells Bells’ new album, A Ghost Could Live Here, is the heavy, reverbed fingerplucks of Kevin Fassett’s (a fitting word might be…) axe, coming at you with the apathetic force of a horror villain. Read More

By Izzy Cihak When Boston quartet Mean Creek are asked what the best part of South by Southwest is, they promptly reply: “Cheap beer and cheap tacos.” Though it’s not all about ingestion. They also talk about the fun of getting to check out bands they’ve Read More