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Music Etc.: Family of the Year
Jacques Sonyieux talks with Family of the Year about questionable band getaways, working with producer Greg Wells and embracing darkness.
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Music Etc.: Olivia Jean, ‘Night Owl’
Jacques Sonyieux talks with former guitarist of the Black Belles and longtime Jack White protégé Olivia Jean about finding fuss-free tones, producing her new album and working in Third Man Studios.
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Respecting His Roots
Jacques Sonyieux talks with vocalist Marcus Scott about his new solo album, Back 2 Da Soul, creating a sonic palette, and what it was like to become the new frontman for Tower of Power.
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Music Etc.: Collective Soul
Jacques Sonyieux talks with Will Turpin of Collective Soul about the band’s 10th album, 'Blood'; staying inspired after 25 years; and exploring one’s humanity.
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Music Etc.: Steven Van Zandt
By Jacques Sonyieux. Whether you know him as Miami Steve from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, Silvio Dante from The Sopranos or as the leader of Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, you’ll find Steven Van Zandt has...
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Music, Etc.: Craig Leon
By Jacques Sonyieux. Craig Leon dishes on producing the Ramones, his favorite folk music influences and his new synth epic, Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music, Vol. 2: The Canon.
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Music Etc.: Micky Dolenz
Hey, hey, it’s Micky Dolenz, looking back on 50-plus years as a Monkee, recording with the legendary Wrecking Crew and more.
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Music Etc.: Albert Hammond
Jacques Sonyieux talks with songwriter Albert Hammond (“It Never Rains in Southern California,” “The Air That I Breathe”) about staying true to yourself, working with the Wrecking Crew, and releasing a new symphonic album.
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Music Etc.: Robert Forster’s ‘Inferno’
Jacques Sonyieux talks with former Go-Between Robert Forster about minimalist production, sequencing an album and his band’s unfinished business.
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Music Etc.: Kasey Chambers’ ‘Campfire’
Jacques Sonyieux talks with Kasey Chambers about nitpicking vocals, microphone choices and what it’s like having her dad playing in her band.
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Music, Etc.: Adam Hood—Raw and Ready
Jaques Sonyieux talks with singer/songwriter Adam Hood about keeping it raw, being true to working-class roots and the pleasure of stepping away from overproduction.
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Music Etc.: William Shatner—Trekking Through Christmas
"Captain Kirk" himself talks about recording his new Christmas album, hanging out on Brad Paisley's tour bus, and what the recent Mars landing might mean for our future.
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Music, Etc.: James—The Best and Worst of Times
By Jaques Sonyieux. Tim Booth, leader of legendary Britpop pioneers James, discusses generational shifts, old-school jams and Living in Extraordinary Times.
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Music, Etc.: Chuck Leavell, Renaissance Man
Chuck Leavell talks about one rockin’ night in Germany, the genius of Ray Charles and what it’s like to have Clapton and Gilmour ask you to join their bands.
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Music Etc.: Mikaela Davis, “Delivery”
Jacques Sonyieux speaks with Mikaela Davis about her latest album, selecting a producer, and where the harp sits in modern music.
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Music Etc.: Blues Traveler
Jacques Sonyieux talks with Matt Rollings, producer of Blues Traveler's 13th album, about finding the right studio, being open-minded during recording and, most of all, staying focused.
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Music Etc.: Ian McCulloch—An Echo Returns
Jacques Sonyieux talks with Ian McCulloch of Echo & The Bunnymen about black mold, why the best vocal take is always among the first three, and why the danger of covering one’s own songs is overstated.
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Music, Etc.: Notes from The Record Company
By Jacques Sonyieux. The Record Company talks about its sophomore album, surpassing expectations, and how a Fleetwood Mac song got the band out of the living room and into a commercial studio.
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Music, Etc.: Neko Case, Hell-On
By Jacques Sonyieux. "Hell-On" is Neko Case's first album in five years, which she completed after finishing up projects with The New Pornographers and her female Canadian supergroup case/lang/veirs.
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Music, Etc.: Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin – An American Odyssey
By Jaques Sonyieux. Each an acclaimed artist in his own right, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave Alvin deliver their first duo album, 30 years in the making.
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Music Etc.: Slowdive Returns
By Jacques Sonyieux. In 2014, the band got back together to play a handful of gigs, which quickly turned to sold-out festivals and then a self-titled brand new album that has since won critical acclaim all around the world.
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Music, Etc.: The Luxembourg Signal – Field of Vision
By Jacques Sonyieux. Transatlantic act The Luxembourg Signal spill what it was like recording their latest album across the ocean.
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Music Etc.: Beautiful Torchbearer
Gingger Shankar burst onto the international music scene in2004, with her emotionally compelling performances and collaborative work on the film score for The Passion of the Christ, which received an Oscar nomination.
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Music, Etc.: Letting The Music Speak
Justin Townes Earle just released his new album Absent Fathers in January as a companion piece to Single Mothers, which was released last year to critical acclaim.
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Music, Etc. : The Human Touch
This month, two-time Juno award winner Dan Mangan + Blacksmith release their new album, Club Meds.
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Music Etc: Reemergence of the Violin
Grammy-winning violinist, composer and educator Mark O’Connor released his new album MOC4 in June, part of his lifelong mission of bringing the violin and other stringed instruments back to the prominence in our culture they once enjoyed.
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New Colors at Kaleidescope Sound
Union City, NJ-based Kaleidescope Sound is a two-room facility that has been helping musicians make records since 2002.
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Music Etc.: Sound Transformer
While perhaps not a household name in the U.S., German composer and musician Klaus Schulze is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of electronic music.
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Music Etc.: Emerging from the Rubble
NEW ORLEANS, LA—Esplanade Studios opened this earlier year, staking claim as the largest studio in Louisiana at 14,000 square feet.