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Best of 2014: Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Small Town Heroes"

Best of 2014: Hurray for the Riff Raff - "Small Town Heroes"

There was a time, before Hurray for the Riff Raff had built anything close to a national audience, when frontwoman Alynda Lee Segarra and longtime fiddler/drummer Yosi Perlstein would hop trains, busk on street corners, crash with scruffy, activist punk kids, and perform at an annual queer and trans

Sunny Sweeney: You Had to Go and Prove Yourself

Sunny Sweeney: You Had to Go and Prove Yourself

Sunny Sweeney is grinning, leaning across the conference table at her publicist’s Music Row office to display an image on her phone. She’s pulled up her website and navigated to a particular T-shirt she sells as merch. “There it is,” she declares. The photo shows a black tee

Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show have never been the type of band to shy away from rough-and-tumble subject matter such as drug use and grinding poverty, whether in songs written by group members or in 1920s jug-band numbers they've made their own. On the band's first two

Tab Benoit - Keeping his roots well-watered

When Tab Benoit discarded the piloting education his parents had financed, he wanted to reassure them he was a young man with artistic conviction and a good head on his shoulders. That was 1989, and he was 20. "They weren't real happy with me, put it that

Grayson Capps - Truth is stranger than fiction

Some of Grayson Capps' songs are hard to believe. One listen will leave you wondering whether he's a storyteller with one hell of an imagination, or someone who has lived an awfully colorful life, brushing up against the south's most eccentric characters. He's