by Carly Schorman – It’s a sad time for musicians and music-lovers alike. These two groups, accustomed to congregating in dingy dive bars, cramped venues, and...
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Coolest Band on the Block 2019: The Exbats
The first rule of being cool is you can’t care at all about being cool. As soon as you start thinking about it, or making decisions with the direct goal of achieving coolness, you’ve lost. That’s part of what we love about The Exbats. These cats are just making music to have fun and it shows. The daughter-father team of Inez and Kenny McLain from Bisbee recorded at Midtown Island Studios with Matt Rendon and released a compilation of fan favorites earlier this year that was then released on vinyl through Burger Records. How cool is that??
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Radio Phoenix Broadcast of The YabYum Hour: The Exbats
The Exbats joined hosts Anna, Bonnie, and Garrett in the Radio Phoenix studios on this edition of The YabYum Hour. Inez and Kenny share stories about their constant touring, recording their new album at Midtown Island studios in Tucson with Matt Rendon, and even brought it rad playlist featuring songs all recorded at Midtown… with one major exception…
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3 Super Rad New Releases: The Gem Show, Wyatt Blair, + Sunn Trio
Carly brings us 3 Super Rad New Releases with The Gem Show, Wyatt Blair, + Sunn Trio…
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Best EP 2018: Bangers Ball by Weird Radicals
I have to admit. This one took me by surprise. Not the award; the EP itself. It totally came out of my left-field and smacked me in the face. And, I wasn’t the only one down here at YabYum that reported this strange phenomena…
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The Dynamic Duo Award: The ExBats
Inez McLain (drums/vocals) and Kenny McLain (guitars/vocals), the father-daughter duo behind The ExBats, definitely hit that dynamo status in 2018 by making the feistiest music in the border states…
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Harsh Mistress: All Roads Lead To This [album review]
by Jakob Casement
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As somebody who primarily enjoys listening to albums with a prominent political theme, All Roads Lead to This by Harsh Mistress offered me the ability to go in a naïve yet satisfying direction with this review. It has enough episodic energy and mood differentiation compacted into each track that it makes you want to skank one second and listen from a couch cushion the next. I was entirely engaged in the listening process from the immediate start…
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5 Rad Music Videos… Returns!
Foxtails Brigade “We Are Not Ourselves” Orangubang ft. Kalen Lander from Snailmate “Wet, Not Gross” Susan “I’ve Been Known” Peach Kelli Pop “Heart Eyes” W.A.S.H. “Get...
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