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Mountain Man returns with Magic Ship on Sept. 21.

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Mountain Man Announces 'Magic Ship,' Its First Album In Eight Years

11:37am August 09, 2018

by Stephen Thompson

The vocal trio's members have kept busy with other projects, including Amelia Meath's star turn in Sylvan Esso. Now, you can hear three songs from Magic Ship, out Sept. 21.

Hopesfall performing at the St. Vitus Bar in Brooklyn.

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Hopesfall's Riffs Hug Your Heart In The Pit

11:00am August 09, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

After a decade, the Charlotte post-hardcore band is back with Arbiter and its thoughtful fusion of Hum-inspired space-rock and metallic textures.

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Watch Several Dave Grohls 'Play' A 23-Minute Rock Song

10:37am August 09, 2018

by Lars Gotrich

Guitar, bass, drums, vibraphone, synths, you name it — Dave plays it.

Yowler's second album, Black Dog In My Path, comes out Oct. 12.

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Sin And Shame Swirl In Yowler's Darkly Hopeful 'WTFK'

10:18am August 09, 2018

by Marissa Lorusso

Maryn Jones confronts the burden of self-reflection on Yowler's new album, Black Dog In My Path, out Oct. 12.

Tyler Childers is featured on this week's edition of Mountain Stage

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Tyler Childers On Mountain Stage

9:34am August 09, 2018

by Adam Harris

Childers makes his second appearance on Mountain Stage with a set of tunes from Purgatory.

Altaf Mir, second from left, with his bandmates.

After Nearly 30 Years In Exile, This Kashmiri Singer Has A Hit Song Of The Summer

7:32am August 09, 2018

by Furkan Latif Khan

A love song about wildflowers is the song of the summer on both sides of Kashmir's much-disputed border, after getting a push from a popular Pakistani television program funded by a soda company.

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Aerosmith's Original Tour Van Found In Woods Of Mass. Town

6:43am August 09, 2018

Decades ago, Aerosmith drove the 1964 vehicle to gigs around New England. The guy who owns the property where the van was discovered sold it to a History Channel show for $25,000.

Trevor Powers' solo debut Mulberry Violence is out Aug. 17.

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First Listen: Trevor Powers, 'Mulberry Violence'

6:28am August 09, 2018

by Mike Katzif

The solo debut from the Youth Lagoon frontman sounds like nothing Trevor Powers has made yet — gorgeous and ornate while bleakly unsettling.

New Zealand sisters Purple Pilgrims stare forever into the middle distance with "Mirage."

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First Listen: Roy Montgomery, 'Suffuse'

5:00am August 09, 2018

by Grayson Haver Currin

Roy Montgomery's ambient guitar symphonies foreground the voices of Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr, Julianna Barwick, Grouper's Liz Harris and others.

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The Band's Robbie Robertson Looks Back On 50 Years Of 'Music From Big Pink'

3:36pm August 08, 2018

by Bob Boilen

The Band's Robbie Robertson describes how The Band's unique, honest and eclectic sound evolved in the basement of a house they called Big Pink, and the process of creating Music from Big Pink.

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