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March 2015

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Brian Wilson Interview: Talks '60s Sound of "No Pier Pressure" and Why "Love & Mercy" "Brought Back a Lot of Scary Memories"

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Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson’s eleventh solo studio album, No Pier Pressure, will be released April 7, 2015 in standard thirteen-track and deluxe sixteen-track editions, each in CD and digital formats, as well as a sixteen-track 2 LP edition on vinyl. Digital preorder is available now and that provides an instant download of the lead track, “The Right Time,” featuring vocals by Wilson and Al Jardine and guitar by David Marks.

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January 2015

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Chris Robinson Interview: "The Black Crowes, to Be Honest, Became a Very Tedious Scenario"

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Chris Robinson Brotherhood

Although the rock group the Black Crowes has had a high turnover rate throughout their history, the driving force behind the band has always been brothers Chris and Rich Robinson who initially formed the band while going to Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia, in the 80s. The band has since sold over thirty million albums and is listed at number 92 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.” The Black Crowes are currently on hiatus.

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December 2014

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Charlie Daniels Interview: "The Last Thing I Would Want Is for Bob Dylan to Think I’m Trying to Interpret His Politics"

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Charlie Daniels

Born in 1936 in Wilmington, North Carolina, Charlie Daniels was raised on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands and the rhythm and blues and country music emanating respectively from Nashville’s 50,000-watt mega-broadcasters WLAC and WSM. Soon after high school and already skilled on guitar, fiddle and mandolin, Daniels formed a rock and roll band and hit the road.

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November 2014

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Jeff Bridges Interview: Throughout an Iconic Acting Career, Music Remains a Powerful Force

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Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges is the son of showbiz parents, Lloyd and Dorothy Bridges, and he made his screen bow as a petulant infant in the arms of his real-life mother in the 1950 melodrama The Company She Keeps that also featured his older brother Beau. The younger Bridges made a more formal debut at age eight in an episode of his dad’s television series Sea Hunt.

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