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2011 Stories by Rick Mason

• Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit

  published November 3, 2011

  The title of Jason Isbell's third solo album, Here We Rest, was taken from the first motto of his home state of Alabama, which was long ago... More >>

• Ms. Lauryn Hill

  published April 28, 2011

  Notoriously reclusive for most of the dozen years since the release of her multiple-Grammy-winning blockbuster The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,... More >>

• Sleigh Bells

  published April 21, 2011

  The dynamic duo of Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss jingles it up with such revolutionary zest that Sleigh Bells has emerged as one of the most... More >>

• Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

  published February 17, 2011

  Pushing up the mercury with a feverish series of provocative cries, blues-textured moans and high-octane howls, Grace Potter and her roots-rocking... More >>

• Los Amigos Invisibles

  published February 17, 2011

  Conceived on the Caracas club scene in the early '90s, Venezuela's Los Amigos Invisibles essentially launched a Latin-fueled global dance party... More >>

• Greg Brown

  published January 13, 2011

  As poetic as William Blake, as raw as some old blues guy scratching away at a hand-built guitar somewhere in the Delta, Greg Brown easily ranks... More >>