Music

Alt-Nation: Music to Stuff in Your Stocking

Blackletter – Digital Vinyl Nobody is ever going to accuse Blackletter’s vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Dave Laros of lacking ambition. The band’s debut release, Digital Vinyl, is a concept EP about a gunslinger’s descent into Hell. Concept albums have their pros and cons. The upside being the possibility for the album to tell an engaging story through great […]

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Rob’s Album Of The Week: Black Moth Super Rainbow’s SeeFu Lilac

Genres blur in today’s music. Sometimes it’s a simple merging of two styles while other times it can be very abstract and all over the place. Then there’s music that’s stunningly weird, but able to strike a chord with your senses. Psychedelic electronic trip-hoppers Black Moth Super Rainbow are exactly that, with Tobacco’s entrancing vocals […]

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What Cheer Records + Vintage To Make Black Friday Fun

When you hear the words Black Friday, horrific images might float around in your head. Crazed parents trying to find that new hot toy for their spoiled kids, people camped outside of Walmart for hours before the doors open and retail workers praying for their sanity while they deal with droves of customers until their shift […]

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The Trumpet Shall Sound: Big Band Holidays with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis is arguably the most important musician of his generation. A nine-time Grammy award winning trumpet virtuoso, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, master educator, impassioned arts advocate and humanitarian, Marsalis has been at the forefront of the global music scene for more than 30 years. On Friday, December 4, 2015, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium, FirstWorks […]

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