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Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk)

by Eric Swedlund Toronto songwriter Tony Dekker leads Great Lake Swimmers, an electrified folk orchestra striving for the same agelessness that's carried decades of roots music. New Wild Everywhere finds Dekker writing with a troubadour's restlessness, filling his songs with elemental and natural imagery—fire, wind, storms, animals, wounds, dreams and desires.…

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Femme Fatale Show, Club Congress, May 11 by Eric Swedlund Phoenix singer-songwriter Lonna Kelley is a longtime favorite at Club Congress—but she's taking a different road with her new band. Make My Baby is more of a collaborative effort—with three female singers, right out front—than Kelley's alt-country bands Broken Hearted Lovers and Reluctant Messiahs.…

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Top Ten in Music

The 17th Street Guitar and World Music Store's top sales for the week ending May 11, 2012 1. Summerdog…

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Nine Questions

Lisa Healey by Mel Mason Lisa Healey is a Boston native who moved to Tucson seven years ago. A desk jockey by day, at night, she can be found at live music venues around town taking photos of bands and musicians.…

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GSol: Mythic Images: Live at Café Aquí (Self-released)

by Jim Lipson If you're looking for something mainstream in terms of songs with melody lines, lyrics and a semblance of structure, this is not the record for you. Throw in a Joseph Campbell reference to help flesh out the title, and you begin to get the sense this is not something you're going to hear on the radio ... unless you've managed to find an obscure free-form station to keep you company on an all-night drive.…

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TUCSON WEEKLY'S RANGE

Mexico City Kitchen Rocks the Spelling World

You don't have to spell correctly to make awesome food, as proved by this delicious Facebook post sent out this afternoon by local food truck Mexico City Kitchen:

Thank you everyone for you support. We are located at main n 6th street.…

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Beer + Crepes = Awesomeness

Dragoon Brewing Co. holds its official grand opening tomorrow, Friday, May 18, and food truck Animal Farm will be in the parking lot. Then, as if that isn't awesome enough, on Saturday, May 19, more tasting room hours and this time food truck Planet of the Crepes will be there.…

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Gustin Reichbach is Like Any MMJ Patient ... Almost

New Yorker Gustin Reichbach went through hell when his doctor diagnosed his Stage III pancreatic cancer three years ago.

Aggressive chemotherapy left him battered almost as badly as the cancer itself.…

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Tammies 2012: The First Round!

Survey ends May 30 at 11:49 PM.

Hey, local-music fans! We need your help to determine Tucson music's best bands and releases over the last year.



The Tucson Area Music Awards (TAMMIES) honors those musicians, professional and amateur alike, who make our local music scene great. It's a tough job at times, and we want to give credit where credit is due.



Please fill out as many categories on this ballot as possible (if you have an informed opinion, that is)--but fill out…

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Posted by Tucson Area Music Awards on April 26, 2012 at 11:04am

Soundbites: Festivals, benefits and CD releases

THIS WEEK'S FESTIVAL NEWS

Two weekends ago, it…

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Posted by Tucson Area Music Awards on April 26, 2012 at 11:03am

Soundbites: Spring Club Crawl! Saturday!; TCC Arena, not as bad as you think; and more

MUSIC EVERYWHERE!

The busiest concert season in…

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Posted by Tucson Area Music Awards on April 19, 2012 at 10:03am

Soundbites: CLOSE TO COACHELLA—BUT NOT TOO CLOSE, RETURN OF THE HOSE, CRITICS' DARLINGS UNITED!, ON THE BANDWAGON

CLOSE TO COACHELLA—BUT NOT TOO CLOSE

In Tucson, we've gotten used to being the recipient of touring acts stopping in town for a gig on the front or back end of the South by Southwest festival in Austin each March; frankly, we're pretty spoiled by it.

This year, a similar thing is happening in April. For the first time, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival has scheduled its…

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Posted by Tucson Weekly on April 13, 2012 at 3:00pm

Random Search results - can be fun !

Just for yuks, I searched the site for Pink Floyd because a new member wrote that PF was his favorite band (see top of page, right, search area).

Got a surprising number of results back for Pink Floyd. Try it.

Perform your own search on the site for bands, songs, whatever suits you  - and add matching members as friends. Just a networking thought.

Peter Bakke, Tucson area music fan…

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Posted by Tucson Weekly on April 5, 2012 at 11:30am

Soundbites: A great Saturday for music in Tucson; Sitcom rapper hits the Rialto; and more!

SUPER SATURDAY

Let's face it: There are no slow…

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Posted by Tucson Area Music Awards on April 5, 2012 at 11:12am

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