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Conjuring Magic: Low Cut Connie's Adam Weiner Talks Band History and 'Dirty Pictures (Part 2)'

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If an alien landed and asked what rock 'n' roll is, you could start here.

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Sea.Hear.Now Wildly Successful in Second Year

Though my biggest complaint was about the number of people attending, Sea.Hear.Now was a superb festival experience.

Newport Folk Fest: Jon Batiste Leads Superb Finale

Another weekend at the Newport Folk Festival provides some amazing musical memories, especially the Jon Batiste-led star-studded finale.

Conjuring Magic: Low Cut Connie's Adam Weiner Talks Band History and 'Dirty Pictures (Part 2)'

Philly band Low Cut Connie's brand of un-ironic rock still gaining momentum, taking risks, and might even be one of Barack Obama's favorite bands.

Low Cut Connie Continue to Get Down and Dirty on 'Dirty Pictures (Part 2)'

Low Cut Connie's Dirty Pictures (Part 2) may concern life's losers, but it's still largely an upbeat album that exults in the fact that people and circumstances are always in transition.

Low Cut Connie: Call Me Sylvia

If an alien landed and asked what rock 'n' roll is, you could start here.

Low Cut Connie: Get Out The Lotion

Low Cut Connie: Band of action.

Tipping the Swear Jar: How mewithoutYou Used the F-Bomb to Say More Than the F-Word

Electro's Sotomayor Merge House and Merengue on "Menéate pa' mí" (premiere)

Gab De La Vega Turns and Faces the Familiar, Strange on "YYZ" (premiere)

British Soul/Blues Artist Izo Fitzroy Asks for "Blind Faith" (premiere)

Fell Runner Celebrate the Strange Dreams of an Unlikely Hero with "Jeffrey" (premiere)

The James Hunter Six's "Brother or Other" Asks to Spread the Love in a Time of Division (premiere)

Crowhurst + Gavin Bryars Demonstrate the Powers of Collaboration With "Dead Swans of Dreams" (premiere + interview)

Matt Wilson and His Orchestra Consider Memory, Mortality With "When I Was a Writer" (premiere + interview)

Robert Vincent Considers the Human "Conundrum" (premiere)

Electropop's Σtella Shares the Funky Dance Pop of "The Break" (premiere)