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Over the past few years, Richard Marsella has touched the lives of many concertgoers — often it’s quite enjoyable, but sometimes it’s downright uncomfortable.

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Nico Muhly

BY Sarah Liss

A 27-year-old Vermont-born, NYC-based wonderboy who’s something of a sensation in contemporary classical and vanguard pop circles.

Human Highway

BY Sarah Liss

Strange things happen in the dead of night in skeevy hotel rooms in the American southwest. For two Canrock MVPs — ex-Unicorn and current Islands leader Nick Thorburn, and Three Gut Records ...

Hair Police

BY Chris Bilton

Hair Police are a Michigan-based, Lexington, KY-bred, harsh noise band. Since 2001, their sonic assaults have been gnawing at the periphery of the indie-rock underground thanks to an ...

Judas Priest

If you’re a metal fan, the date of the Metal Masters tour is probably marked on your calendar. The landmark tour features Heaven and Hell (the Dio-era Black Sabbath lineup), the three-headed Energizer bunny known as Motörhead, thrash veterans Testament and ...

The Abyssinians

The Abyssinians possess the most otherworldly harmonies in reggae. The band is best known to fans of the genre as the composers of the repatriation anthem “Satta Massagana.”

Vivian Girls

Brooklyn-area trio Vivian Girls have been on an upswing for some months now, perhaps attributable to an array of singles with low print runs, as well as timely opening slots for the likes of TV on the Radio, Jay Reatard and King Khan.

Ruby Coast

Ruby Coast are charmingly jangly indie-rockers from the sleepy Aurora/Newmarket suburbs. Mark Robert Whiting, Nathan Vanderwielen, Keith Bradford and Justice McLellan all met in high school, where Justice used to cheat off Mark in math class. Drummer ...

The Dillinger Escape Plan

How unhinged can things get at a Dillinger Escape Plan show?

Matmos

Best known for their collaborations with Björk, Baltimore duo Matmos (a.k.a. Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt) have spent the past decade animating myriad fetishistic objects like a pair of campy witch doctors, turning the resulting samples into conceptual ...

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