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Week In Music

Monday — @Alchemy, Idkconundrum, Vito, Barren, Lukas Waste, 8th Grade Slowdance, Superposition @Dusk, Neglected Witches, Mecha, Phantom Ocean, DJ Zydrate, Rhode Crue, Hemingway, Ioneye, Bubblegum Punk Tuesday — @the Columbus Theatre, (Vote for Segal Rally) Deer Tick, Ted Leo, Manny Escobar, Orion, Aura @Nick-A-Nee’s, Marty Ballou and Friends Wednesday — @Fête Lounge, Etana, Joe Bruce …

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Interview: Newport Folk Festival’s Brown Bird

If it’s August, it’s time for the annual Newport Folk Festival, which draws 10,000 attendees and scores of musicians, staff and volunteers to modestly-sized Fort Adams State Park to enjoy legendary acts whose styles often soar beyond “folk” and occasionally even beyond definition. For the first time in NFF’s 52-year history, both days of the …

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Folk Festival This Weekend — Wear Sunblock

And a hat. Great article by Rick Massimo in the Thursday ProJo highlighting the local acts representing at the Newport Folk Festival this weekend — The Low Anthem and Deer Tick. At last year’s folk festival in Newport, Ben Knox Miller and the rest of The Low Anthem weren’t on stage — they were backstage, …

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Brian Williams And Deer Tick, Together At Last

Brian Williams has launched a new music feature–called, hilariously, BriTunes–in which the charmingly blah news anchor talks to some of his favorite new bands. (“Bar bands are best,” says his written intro on the MSNBC website.)  First up, local boys Deer Tick, who everyone in the world seems to really like and whose Dylanesque appeal …

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Is a new ‘Providence Sound’ in the works?

As Deer Tick and the Low Anthem keep writing great songs and march towards national recognition — with plaudits from critics all around — Providence is going to start to signify something a bit different to music fans: A little less new-wave and noisy, a little more “roots rock,” “pure Americana,” Waits, Dylan and Guthrie. …

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