Daoud Tyler-Ameen
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With 19 songs in just 22 minutes, Quarterbacks offers pop melodies at punk speed and a reminder that love and hurt needn't always be rendered at epic scale.
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Dean Engle follows up his acclaimed single, "Center," with 64 seconds of jangly self-reflection.
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In moments layered with contradiction, singer Addie Strei traces the outline of a lover who is at once there and not there.
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Certain musical rhythms trip us up: We try to dance or count along and keep losing our place. Two musicians explain what makes some beats so slippery, and what butter has to do with making them stick.
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Watching Cluck perform jams the senses. It's almost easier to imagine some tiny spirit in her chest is controlling the action, turning a pitch wheel with one hand and a tone knob with the other.
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Alabama-born singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield broke through to a bigger audience last year by releasing an aching, bare-bones solo album. Her follow-up album came out in March.
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At 24, Katie Crutchfield has already had multiple careers as a musician. She broke through last year with an aching, bare-bones solo album — but the follow-up, Cerulean Salt, has roots in her years playing underground punk shows.
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Zach Yudin is one of those brainy, studio-savvy musicians who can get a sound out of any instrument he picks up. On his debut as Cayucas, he indulges summer nostalgia from a healthy distance. Hear "A Summer Thing."
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Watching Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez perform is like witnessing a divination: Two solemn figures huddle over objects, stomp their feet and chant. Experience a complete Buke & Gase concert.