by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer For the second time, a half dozen of Tucson’s most interesting bands took the trek to Cowtown Keeylocko this past Saturday...
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Tucson Portraits: Mariah McCammond
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer Mariah is more than first meets the eye. Yes, she’s a harpist who plays at the street fair, at Café...
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Tucson Portraits: Burning Palms
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “I guess we just reached that point where we were just like ‘fuck it,’ we reached the edge of the cliff,...
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Tucson Portraits: Billy Sedlmayr
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “You can’t take stuff back, man. You can’t change it.” Billy Sedlmayr is sitting in his tiny midtown apartment, smoking a...
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Tucson Portraits: Gabriel Sullivan
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer Gabe Sullivan, all in black, met me at the Tap Room at Congress and ordered a mezcal (his girlfriend had instructed...
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Tucson Portraits: Matt Baquet
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “I see everyone taking a more serious, professional approach to things, and I hope that the shit that’s happening for Prom...
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Tucson Portraits: Andres Parada of Human Behavior
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer Andres Parada is battling his demons in the public sphere. But they aren’t the sad and well-worn demons that have harried...
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Tucson Portraits: Matt Rolland of Run Boy Run
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “You’re appropriating me? I’ll take it. I think of myself as a Tucson musician now.” So says Matt Rolland, a founding...
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Tucson Portraits: Chris Pierce
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “I’m totally self-taught,” Chris Pierce explains. “Everything that I know about the instrument, everything that I know theoretically, I’ve either learned...
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Tucson Portraits: Jordan Prather of Commercial Appeal
Jordan Prather is tired of waiting around. Faced with the prospect of marketing his new electro-pop project, Head Over Heart, in a city without much of...
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Tucson Portraits: John Melillo of Algae and Tentacles
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “I want to play with everybody, all the time, as much as I can.” This is John Melillo’s musical credo. And...
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Tucson Portraits: Laura Kepner-Adney
by Bob Hanshaw Contributing Writer “The story of my winding up in Tucson could fill up an entire article,” says Laura Kepner-Adney, and it may well...
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