Peter Parcek is one of the most criminally underrated blues guitarists despite having earned a BMA nomination ten years ago. While folks like Joe Bonamassa, Walter Trout, and Kenny Wayne
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The blend of the electronic and the organic on Chief Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah’s studio albums, The Stretch Music concept, certainly piques curiosity about how this septet sounds live. Furthermore,
Collective Soul is one of those bands that hold an iconic place in the 90s rock music soundscape. After “Shine” became an underground hit, their debut album Hints, Allegations, and
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Last week in an almost entirely empty H&M in downtown Chicago,, a few teenagers milled about the section marked SALE, perusing inexpensive chic clothes marketed directly at them. Over the
