Reverb

Reverb

Well, misses and sirs, it appears that the "Holey Daze" are upon us. This year, however, there is an alternative to visiting the stale, muggy, fluorescent-lit, mouth-breathing-consumer swine-flu hell of Mall City, USA.

Alela Diane

Alela Diane

Sixty seconds with Alela Diane

"I was rebellious in the opposite way of how most people are. Because my parents were a little more free-flowin', I took the road of trying to do really well in school."

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Swell Season's greeting

Once duo celebrates a joyously downbeat second coming

Glen Hansard figured out a good way not to have to deal with the pressure of following up a hit album. He pretty much made the new Swell Season CD, Strict Joy, before he realized what was happening.

Discomfort and joy

The Dear Hunter's Casey Crescenzo on life, death and entertainment

While other kids were sneaking out to parties and listening to Limp Bizkit, Crescenzo was hanging out in his parents' home studio and immersing himself in Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and Weather Report.

Devil in the details

Samuel James takes the blues storytelling tradition into a new era

"I was always a writer, you know, and my father's a fantastic storyteller. I'm sort of a culmination of his upbringing, I suppose."

Sound advice

Tegan and Sara, Spencer Day, Nirvana

Playing around listings

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The Black Crowes take a few midnight rambles with Levon Helm

The band decided to skip the usual trip to a conventional studio and instead recorded their new album in the Woodstock, N.Y. barn owned by Helm.

Chuck Prophet

Sixty seconds with Chuck Prophet

"...prior to that I'd been on British labels and North America became this thing that I figured would just go away if I ignored it long enough."

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