Best of What's Next: Other Lives

By Justin Jacobs at 6:00 AM on December 11, 2009

Listening to the first few seconds of Other Lives’ self-titled debut, you might think you mistakenly popped in...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Tune-Yards

By Gray Chapman at 6:00 AM on December 10, 2009

With her arbitrarily-capitalized alias, painted-and-feathered concert getup and tendency to drop phrases like...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Frank Turner

By Josh Jackson at 12:00 PM on December 9, 2009

Hometown: London Album: Poetry of the Deed For Fans of: Joe Strummer, Billy Bragg, early Bruce Springsteen For someone who often gets slapped with the “folk” modifier, Frank Turner’s musical ambitions began with a rather odd inspiration—an Iron Maiden poster featuring a futuristic zombie cowboy. “I just saw that on the wall and was just like, ‘That’s the coolest thing ever,’” the London troubador says. “And then when somebody told me it was a band, my mind kind of fell apart and I started getting into music.”...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Carnivores

By Julia Reidy at 6:00 AM on December 9, 2009

With a jangly guitar lick and a far-off, echoing vocal line, Carnivores stealthily prowled into...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Taylor Hollingsworth

By Gray Chapman at 6:00 AM on December 8, 2009

Taylor Hollingsworth is in the middle of professing his love for Natchez blues artist Hound Dog Taylor when...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Ólafur Arnalds

By Christina Lee at 6:00 AM on December 7, 2009

In the last few years, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds suffered two accidents...  read more

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Best of What's Next: The Whiskey Gentry

By Cristina Martin at 6:00 AM on December 4, 2009

The Whiskey Gentry is a toe-tapping, steamrolling kind of band...  read more

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Best of What's Next: Arms

By Christina Lee at 6:00 AM on December 3, 2009

Todd Goldstein first fell in love with music as a teenager, but he didn't become a songwriter until...  read more

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Best of What's Next: The Maldives

By Gage Henry at 6:00 AM on December 2, 2009

"When it comes down to it, I'm not a very good musician at all..."  read more

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Best of What's Next: Fool's Gold

By Sean Edgar at 6:00 AM on December 1, 2009

It's a rainy night in Brooklyn during CMJ 2009, but despite the frigid, industrial malaise...  read more

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