Daoud Tyler-Ameen
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At 24, Katie Crutchfield has already had multiple careers as a musician. She broke through last year with an aching, bare-bones solo album — but the follow-up, Cerulean Salt, has roots in her years playing underground punk shows.
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Zach Yudin is one of those brainy, studio-savvy musicians who can get a sound out of any instrument he picks up. On his debut as Cayucas, he indulges summer nostalgia from a healthy distance. Hear "A Summer Thing."
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The Best Picture nominee about two musicians nearing the end of life uses music sparingly but crushingly.
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The visual icon of The Smashing Pumpkins' landmark album is a woman of multiple personalities. On the occasion of a deluxe reissue, illustrator John Craig explains the story of the girl in the star.
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A new fan of an old record recalls first hearing the dance-punk band in high school, on a mixtape meant for someone else.
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Watching Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform is like witnessing a divination: Two solemn figures huddle over objects, stomp their feet and chant. Experience a complete Buke & Gase concert.
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Sometimes a great song comes down to an indelible moment — the bit where you can't help air-drumming or singing along. And sometimes, that moment is all you want.
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The young trio performs "But I Do" without its usual drums, synthesizers and programmed tracks. But Now, Now still aims for a saturated sound against the bright murals at Austin's "Graffiti Park."
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Guitarist Alex Chadwick explains what he was thinking when he chose 100 licks from rock history and played them in chronological order, on video, without stopping.
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In few words, "Be Good" profiles two people who love and trust each other deeply, who share their dreams and secret shames, but who would rather shotgun beers together than make out.