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Cage the Elephant Mixes Things Up with Latest Album

Cage the Elephant's 2013 album, Melophobia, was approached a bit differently than previous records. As opposed to a strict collaborative effort from the very beginning, each of the band's members started writing music individually.

Sounds 25 August 2014
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Kzoo Gets Some Chicago Love with Audiotree Music Festival

 Kalamazoo’s music scene might be battered, but it ain’t beat. Audiotree, the Chicago-based website and music company known for its stellar in-studio sessions, is bringing a well-deserved bump to town with its second-annual music festival.

Sounds 25 August 2014
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TRACK OF THE WEEK: "Anywhere (But Here)" by Vagabonds

Suddenly, at the blink of an eye, August is here and summer is fast approaching its end. With autumn drawing closer in, excitement forms as new expectations are made of what the next season will bring. Here to help with the transition is the track of the week, preaching adventure, change and moving forward.

Sounds 07 August 2014
  • Grand Rapids
  • Vagabonds
  • Discontent
  • Anywhere (But Here)
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Triumph Music Academy offers an innovative take on music lessons

Go ahead and holster your witty comparisons to Jack Black and the movie School of Rock when you are around James Hughes — he’s heard them before.

Sounds 28 July 2014
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Les Claypool's Version of Kumbaya

 Les Claypool is certainly best known for his role as lead vocalist and bassist for Primus. But Claypool is just as well known for his number of side projects and artistic endeavors, including the formation of supergroup Oysterhead, theme songs for "South Park" and Robot Chicken, a book, a movie and working alongside musicians from Tom Waits to Metallica.

Sounds 28 July 2014
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Lake Street Dive Captures the Soul of Jazz

Four jazz students with a shared love of ‘60s pop united in 2004, making a name for themselves playing dive bars in Boston and Cambridge. Ten years later, the members of Lake Street Dive are National Public Radio darlings and late-night television veterans who released their third studio album, Bad Self Portraits, earlier this year.

Sounds 28 July 2014
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TRACK OF THE WEEK: “Los Plantanos” by Bike Tuff

A fresh face in the punk scene, local rockers Bike Tuff produce authentic indie/emo/punk music that’s a little more thoughtfully crafted than is usually the case. Their latest effort, Into Shore, displays a songwriting craft and general musical ability that can be elusive for the genre.

Sounds 25 July 2014
  • bike tuff
  • los plantanos
  • into shore
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TRACK OF THE WEEK: "Alleycat Blues" by The Red Handed

The Red Handed's album combines the lofty aspirations and knotty compositions of prog with the earnestness and accessibility of indie rock: the playing is competent yet not overblown, the vocals are clean and simple (think Between the Buried and Me, not Dream Theater), and the songs are concise and compact, yet packed with enough detours to keep all the music nerds happy.

Sounds 17 July 2014
  • The Red Handed
  • Shell Shocked
  • Muskegon
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‘68 Returns to Grand Rapids to Unleash In Humor and Sadness

It was Grand Rapids in October 2013 where Josh Scogin’s former metal band, the Chariot, made its final Michigan appearance. By the following April, it’s also where his new project, ‘68, spread its wings.

 

Sounds 25 June 2014
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Just One of the Girls: Exploring the glass ceiling in West Michigan’s local music scene

For the past three years, LadyfestGR organizers Jes Kramer and Steffanie Rosalez have scoured West Michigan communities to find some of the best females to include in their lineup.

Sounds 20 June 2014
  • LadyFestGR
  • Jes Kramer
  • Steffanie Rosalez
  • Ashley Daneman
  • Bermudas
  • Lady Ace Boogie
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Venues Transform Kalamazoo Music Scene

Call it the circle of life for any local music scene — some venues are forced to shut their doors, while others invite musicians to an open stage.

Sounds 20 June 2014
  • Kalamazoo
  • Louie's Trophy House
  • Jake Simmons
  • District Square
  • Old Dog Tavern
  • Papa Pete's
  • The Strutt
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Run Boy Run "Strings" Together Its Music

In 2009, two pairs of siblings and a street busker at the University of Arizona got together and formed a string band. Two years later, they found themselves winning the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest in Colorado, joining the ranks of past winners like Nickel Creek, Dixie Chicks and even Kalamazoo's own Greensky Bluegrass.

Sounds 20 June 2014
  • Kalamazoo
  • Run Boy Run
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Inside Rick Chyme's Idea Factory

It was only a matter of time before hip hop consumed Rick Chyme's life. The rapper, (real name: Patrick Cleland) got into the genre through basketball, which he played from first grade through college at Western Michigan University.

Sounds 20 June 2014
  • Grand Rapids
  • 5iveit
  • Ricky Chyme
  • hiphop
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All That Jazz in West Michigan

West Michigan is known as a weekenders’ haven, an avenue for the arts and an artists’ retreat. Summer brings music festivals and an upswing in nightlife events from Kalamazoo to Grand Rapids and the lakeshore. Venues such as The Pyramid Scheme and The Intersection attract national caliber rock and pop acts.

Sounds 19 June 2014
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The Local Commuters: Country Roads, Driving Home

The Local Commuters: Country Roads, Driving Home

Devin Weber, frontman for Grand Rapids alt-country band The Local Commuters, admits it’s taken a lon...
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The Fray: How to Save a Band

The Fray: How to Save a Band

Nearly a decade after their last album together, multi-platinum pop-rock band The Fray weren’t dead,...
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From Stages to Sunlit Kitchens: The Avett Brothers' Journey To Rediscovery

From Stages to Sunlit Kitchens: The Avett Brothers' Journey To Rediscovery

For Seth Avett–one half of the folk-rock duo The Avett Brothers–there’s no such thing as an ordinary...
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