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An Insider’s Introduction: The Sugar Thieves

July 30, 2020 An Insider's Introduction Arizona music Carly Schorman Featured Articles Interview

The Sugar Thieves came together in musical love and bluesy harmony more than a decade ago in a smokey dive bar with the fateful partnership of lead singer Meridith Moore and guitar player/vocalist Mikel Lander. Yes, it was Big Fish Pub and the year was 2006, the planets aligned to give the Valley this bastion of music from the American Heartland…

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What The Fork? Podcast Uploads a New Afterlife

July 21, 2020 Featured Articles Interview

The local (and loveable) podcasting duo of Jared Duran and Jason Keil launched What The Fork? podcast to document their love of the NBC television show The Good Place along with their growing bromance. But, after three seasons, Keil and Duran pressed pause on The Good Place while they waited for the fourth season to hit streaming for fans and picked up a new program to discuss in the interim.

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The Quarantine Questionnaire: Ryan Avery

July 10, 2020 Featured Articles Interview The Quarantine Questionnaire

Who are you and are you in a band or do you perform solo? If in a band(s), what is the name of that band?

My name is Ryan Avery (they/them pronouns). I’m in a Queer Ska band called The Terri’s — we don’t have any recordings, havent played any shows and are on hiatus because of COVID but I am one of the 4 singers in the band. I also perform solo under the name “Hi My Name Is Ryan” which consists of me just singing songs and telling stories and doing other forms of performance art…

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An Insider’s Introduction: Greg Lloyd of Prism Collabs

June 29, 2020 An Insider's Introduction Carly Schorman Featured Articles Interview

Greg Lloyd is a musician, producer, sound engineer, wrangler of creatives, and aural innovator living here in Phoenix. And, recently, he added author to his resume when he published a DIY guide for musicians on the ins-and-outs of recording. At the same time, Lloyd was working on a collaborative recording project that released a new EP. tape.in by Prism Collabs stands out as a fluid yet eclectic mix of ambient instrumentals, as innovative as the structure of the project itself, while simultaneously speaking to the many possibilities of home recording…

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