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Sleater-Kinney keeps breaking rules with album 'No Cities to Love'

Sleater-Kinney keeps breaking rules with album 'No Cities to Love'

Jordan Cissell January 20, 2015

“We win, we lose. Only 
together do we break the rules.”From the moment they groped and clawed their way to the top of the Pacific Northwest’s riot grrrl scene in the mid-1990s, those words –...

Band aims to revive classic music with Zeppelin

Band aims to revive classic music with Zeppelin

Drew Pendleton January 19, 2015

Led Zeppelin’s 1971 album “Led Zeppelin IV” will come to life in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, as the Black Jacket Symphony prepares to take the stage at the Bama Theatre.Founded by Birmingham musician...

Bridges shows '60s style

Amy Marino January 19, 2015

From Fort Worth, Texas, Leon Bridges may as well be a living, singing time capsule from the ‘60s. Initially interested in choreography, this modern-day Sam Cooke only picked up the guitar four years...

Duo set to play at Green Bar

Duo set to play at Green Bar

Kinsey Haynes January 15, 2015

10 Cent Cigars, a band from Bayfield, Wisconsin, will make its Tuscaloosa debut at Green Bar Saturday.The band formed in 2011 and their name stems from a novel by J. Edgar Rice. The band’s name was originally...

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard release album of spacey folk jams

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard release album of spacey folk jams

Jordan Cissell January 11, 2015

Yeah, yeah. Their name may sound like the title of a long-lost Dr. Seuss book, but don’t write off King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard just yet. On “I’m in Your Mind Fuzz,” this seven-piece Australian...

Pianist to perform in Moody Music Building

Pianist to perform in Moody Music Building

Laura Testino January 11, 2015

The School of Music will host guest pianist Margery McDuffie Whatley for a concert this Tuesday.Whatley, a Georgia native, completed her master’s degree in music and doctorate in musical arts for piano...

Harpeth Rising takes from classical backgrounds to write folk

Harpeth Rising takes from classical backgrounds to write folk

Kinsey Haynes January 8, 2015

Few modern bands say they do not have a genre. Nashville band Harpeth Rising fuses folk, bluegrass, rock, progressive and classical music into a sound that is considered to be without a typical 
genre...

Hard rock band to visit Green Bar

Hard rock band to visit Green Bar

Andrew Laningham December 3, 2014

When David Joiner, lead singer and guitarist of Forgotten Grey wanted to start a band, he recruited two of his friends to help him push his project forward. “I turned one guitar player into a drummer,...

Music department to put on holiday concert

Drew Pendleton December 3, 2014

Since 1969, The University of Alabama’s School of Music has performed a holiday concert called Hilaritas. The tradition will continue this year with two performances.  Featuring a performance ensemble...

LaGoons to play Red Shed

LaGoons to play Red Shed

Andrew Laningham November 19, 2014

Clark Chadwell, the bassist and vocalist for Tuscaloosa’s local jam band The LaGoons, said being a part of a band is about not taking yourself too seriously. “You have to be willing to get weird, because...

Numero Group releases two dozen tracks, many never before heard

Jordan Cissell November 18, 2014

The following 24 songs have quite 
literally never seen the light of day. Back in the late 1960s, a fellow named Jerry Riegle stuck a recording studio underground in an active limestone mine near Kansas...

Taylor Swift's new album, video strays from previous fan expectations

Noah Cannon November 18, 2014

It’s good to be Taylor Swift right now. The pop star’s latest album “1989” sold over 1.2 million copies in its first week of release, becoming her third consecutive platinum-selling debut. Factor...