After the pandemic hit, time started to move differently for L.A. indie rock band Local Natives. “It was really hard for us,” vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Taylor Rice told Revue. “We’ve just been playing music, and creating music together kind of nonstop, and living that life, really, our whole lives. Even through childhood.”

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When critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Neko Case’s house burned down six years ago, she rose from the ashes, with the release of her last full-length solo album, 2018’s Hell-On.

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Halloween, horror, and heavy metal. It’s a match made in, well, hell. It’s also the first time the three have fused together for a brand new seasonal festival taking place here in West Michigan this month.

Live music is back in full force in West Michigan, and along with that comes a new wave of bands ready to kick off their careers.

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There’s no argument that La Dispute’s upcoming show at GLC Live at 20 Monroe on Sept. 28 will be the biggest concert of their entire career.

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When Chris Carrabba songwrites, he clears his calendar.

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Musicians don’t get the luxury of planning for their big break, but for drummer Spencer York, that was a good thing. When York joined the post-hardcore band Movements a decade ago, he was merely hoping to make a name for himself where he grew up: in Orange County’s local music scene. 

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After Mikel Jollett, singer/songwriter/best-selling author, and frontman for L.A. indie rock band The Airborne Toxic Event, finished his memoir, “Hollywood Park,” he didn’t know what he’d write about next.

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There’s a cold, hard truth that to have success in the music industry in 2024, the algorithms that dominate the Internet need to work for you. For long-time Grand Rapids band The Crane Wives, they just didn’t, until one day they suddenly did.

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When Chicago EDM duo Louis The Child takes the stage at this year’s Breakaway Music Festival in Grand Rapids, expect the unexpected. 

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