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The Symphony's latest program will pay tribute to Cole and gospel/Broadway performer Paul Robeson.
By Margaret Hair | 16 Jan 2008

When he plays now, Skeeter Brandon still keeps that same exuberance he had when he'd get to sing in the old Baptist church near Roxboro.
By Chris Toenes | 16 Jan 2008

The Dillinger Escape Plan has been a band of marked men ever since its debut, with a thousand generic, mediocre alt/metal pretenders biting at their heels while legions of newborn fans beg for a reprise.
By Chris Parker | 16 Jan 2008

"When I hear a song, I don't even hear the other person singing it," LaVette says. "I hear me singing it."
By Rick Cornell | 9 Jan 2008

The details of Morrison's online life are indicative of two important threads in the 34-year-old songwriter's career post-Dismemberment Band, the D.C. dance-punk heroes he founded in 1993 and disbanded a decade later.
By Grayson Currin | 5 Dec 2007

Assad's blend of classical guitar and Brazilian folk music frequently shifts shapes, mixing disparate sounds as it does so.
By Laura White | 28 Nov 2007

Donte Oliver and Wayne Brooks switch musical roles like they're being controlled by a video game's joystick.
By Chris Toenes | 28 Nov 2007

The duo's debut surveys a wide range of Americana styles including spare Appalachian folk, country-blues, delta and Big Easy blues accents.
By Chris Parker | 28 Nov 2007

"Why not take the riff from the song and play it all day and all night and have a song with nothing but the riff and play it over and over until it becomes hypnotic?"
By Grayson Currin | 28 Nov 2007

Killick  
Erik Hinds calls the music he improvises alone under the name Killick "Appalachian Trance Metal," three words so full of internal conflict one could assume he's being coy.
By Chris Toenes | 21 Nov 2007

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