TAKAAT Find Their Own Path Through Desert Rock

TAKAAT Find Their Own Path Through Desert Rock

TAKAAT began (and still operate) as the rhythm section to Mdou Moctar, the breakout Nigerien rock band named for its charismatic frontman. This puts Ahmoudou Madassane (guitar/vocals), bassist Mikey Coltun (the sole American in the group), and drummer Souleymane Ibrahim in the same realm as Calexico. That indie band started out as part of alt-country…

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Listen to Model/Actriz’s New Song “Diva”

Listen to Model/Actriz’s New Song “Diva”

Model/Actriz have shared a new song. “Diva” is the third taste of the New York band’s forthcoming new album, Pirouette, following “Doves” and lead single “Cinderella.” Listen to it below. “The song takes place on a date, and the song references many of the real ones I’ve been on while on tour,” Model/Actriz frontman Cole…

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Every Elliott Smith Album, Ranked

Every Elliott Smith Album, Ranked

Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his father—or perhaps more pointedly, to get away from his abusive stepfather. In high school, Smith began to go by a first name that he felt suited him more, Elliott, and recorded…

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