Benjy Eisen
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Benjy Eisen resides in San Francisco and has written about music for a number of publications including Rolling Stone, Paste and Filter. His writing has also appeared in several anthologies and his work has been nominated for several Jammy Awards.
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With just five other musicians onstage with him during his three decades as a guitarist in the Grateful Dead, Bob Weir often sounded like he was playing with a full fledged symphony. Certainly epic compositions such as 'Dark Star' and 'Terrapin Station' leant themselves to such comparisons, and the Dead's vast catalog has indeed been touched by ...
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On the heels of the best summer of his career, Michael Franti will bring his annual 'Power to the Peaceful' festival back to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on September 11. As always, the free event will spotlight a variety of social and political causes and communities, as well as just giving folks a laid back day of duty-free ...
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Andrew Bird fans who wish to catch the singer-songwriter live anytime soon are pretty much out of luck, unless they're planning on hitting up the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island this coming weekend. "Technically, I'm taking the year off, but I can't just go cold turkey from playing shows," Bird tells Spinner. "So anything I do this year has ...
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The Black Crowes have amassed a healthy -- or unhealthy, depending on your take -- amount of controversy over the years, piling their rock 'n' roll mystique high with tales of debauchery and excess. Some of those tales are tall; others are simply solid in their magnitude. It's been speculated that the band spent more than $1,000,000 on an album ...
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland just got way more than they asked for when they called up the folks at Newport Folk Festival recently, looking for tickets to this year's event. Organizers one-upped their request by inviting the band to bring their instruments and perform. One of the festival's producers, Jay Sweet, tells Spinner that "it took all of 60 ...
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Righteous Babe
Like so many artists on Righteous Babe records, singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell manages to touch upon all the classic topics -- like sex, drugs ... and numbness -- within the lyrical frame of a single song. Case in point: the new single, 'Flowers (Eurydice's Song),' from Mitchell's latest full-length release, 'Hadestown.'
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It's been a tough year for Big Star. In March, leader Alex Chilton tragically died of heart failure. And now, just four months later, the legendary power-pop group lost a second member on Monday, when founding bassist Andy Hummel passed away at the age of 59. A third member, Chris Bell, died in a car crash in 1978, five years after officially ...
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