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Senses Fail Singer Buddy Nielsen Blames Apathy for Breeding "Garbage Like Donald Trump"

By Dave Lake
Dec 2, 2015

It's been about ten years since Silverstein and Senses Fail last toured together. Back then, both bands were new on the screamo scene and just cutting their teeth. Neither would have imagined that they'd each go on to sell hundreds of thousands of albums, let alone tour together again a...
Zac Brown Band on Florida: "It's Kind of Like Our Beach Condo"

By Dave Lake
Nov 11, 2015

You've got to hand it to the guys in the Zac Brown Band — they're nothing if not ambitious. Their latest album, Jekyll + Hyde, finds the Atlanta-based group expanding into territories far outside its country-music tag, with explorations into EDM, bluegrass, big band, and metal. And let's face it:...
John Lydon Isn't Voting for Hillary

By Dave Lake
Nov 3, 2015

John Lydon may be forever associated with Great Britain thanks to a famous album with "bollocks" in the title and a song that proposes "Anarchy in the U.K.," but the former Sex Pistols mouthpiece is now an American citizen. Having called California home for the better part of three decades,...
Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler Reaches the End of the Road

By Dave Lake
Oct 27, 2015

By the time Mark Knopfler gets to Fort Lauderdale Halloween night, he will be very well rehearsed. His show at the Au-Rene Theater will be the 86th of his current tour and the last North American date in support of his eighth solo LP, Tracker. But the 66-year-old former Dire...
Cheap Trick is the “Most Popular Opening Act in the World”

By Dave Lake
Oct 21, 2015

Besides the comfort and personal satisfaction that comes with keeping a band together for four decades, there are some less obvious benefits too: like not having to rehearse. After so many years on the road, Cheap Trick simply show up to a town, create a setlist, and at soundcheck, play...

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