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Best of What's Next: Mayer Hawthorne

For Andrew Mayer Cohen, the Motown-influenced tunes were just musical doodles...  read more

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Best of What's Next: fun.

Hometown: New York Album: Aim and Ignite Members: Andrew Dost (keyboards, guitar, vocals), Nate Ruess (vocals), Jack Antonoff (guitar, vocals) For Fans Of: Ben Folds, Queen, The Format Last year, following the dissolution of his first band, ex-Format frontman Nate Ruess made a pilgrimage idealized by young Americans long before Sinatra’s famed salute: Having overstayed his welcome in his Arizona hometown, the songwriter moved to New York to start a new life. “There’s a big difference between comfort and what you’re destined to do,” Ruess says. “I needed a change in every aspect of my life.”...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Pomegranates

Pomegranates' Everybody, Come Outside! might be the most fitting album title of the year...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Harper Simon

Harper Simon can't help being caught in the great melodious wake of his father...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band's self-titled debut twitches and writhes with capricious tempo shifts...  read more

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Best of What's Next: The Shaky Hands

At the intersection of The Shins' faux-British Invasion jingle-jangle and The Allman Brothers' raggedy Southern-fried boogie...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Clare and The Reasons

Clare Manchon embraces idiosyncrasies...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Moneybrother

Anders Wendin makes music as Moneybrother, but he's first and foremost a tourist...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Nurses

It’s an amusingly incongruous sight to see the makers of such delicate music hauling around in such a brawny boat...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Kristina Train

The soulful saunter of Kristina Train's debut Spilt Milk hints at her roots in Savannah...  read more

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