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6 items by Andy Greenwald

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  Band to Watch: Fitz and the Tantrums Put a Modern Spin on Motown | ARTICLE

  Click to listen to Fitz & the Tantrums' "Pickin' Up The Pieces" Who: Fronted and founded by studio engineer-turned-belter Michael "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, this...

  April 12, 2011 12:30 PM ET
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  Band to Watch: Pains of Being Pure at Heart Show Off a Bold New Sound | ARTICLE

  Click to listen to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's "Heart In Your Heartbreak" Who: This quartet of shy...

  March 8, 2011 8:35 AM ET
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  Artist of the Week: Yelawolf | ARTICLE

  WHO: "Rapper, Skateboarder, Drinker" is how rowdy, uber-tattooed Alabaman Michael Wayne Atha describes himself – although he records...

  December 30, 2010 2:15 PM ET
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  Band of the Week: New Traditionalists, the Secret Sisters | ARTICLE

  WHO: Sisters Laura and Lydia Rogers learned to harmonize attending church in their hometown of Muscle Shoals, Alabama — a small city with a big musical legacy. An audition with Universal Music got their demo in the...

  November 16, 2010 3:02 PM ET
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  Band of the Week: The Darkly Psychedelic Black Angels | ARTICLE

  WHO: Five trippy Austinites who mine the fertile crevices where Sixties psychedelia meets dark Seventies proto-punk. Their third album, Phosphene Dream, could double as Easy Rider"s road trip playlist.   SOUNDS LIKE: On dirges like 'River of Blood" and...

  November 1, 2010 6:22 PM ET
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  Band of the Week: Red Mass | ARTICLE

  WHO: Anybody at anytime: Red Mass is, in the words of its ringleader Roy Vucino (aka "Choyce), a "living entity" that can range in size from three to sixteen people on stage. On record, the number balloons...

  October 18, 2010 3:22 PM ET