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MUSIc
they muck through the tedium for that one moment of glorious chaos
COLOR
Black, white, and infinite shades in between
BLACK AND WHITE
MUSIc JOURNALISM
MUSIC JOURNALISM
Alexis Sallee and the 'Definition of Resilience'
At an early age, Alexis Sallee discovered that if the world was dominated by images, she preferred to be enveloped in sound.
Glorious Chaos: A Day in the Life of Buckcherry
Wearing simple, black-rimmed glasses, tight black jeans and a pair of black New Balance sneakers, Josh Todd does not draw so much as glance from the motorists gleefully making their way home after another work week. Three hours later, he will shed his anonymity and take the Alaska Airlines Center stage as the lead singer of the platinum-selling rock band, Buckcherry.
Astoria State's Danny Resnick ascends to rockstardom
Now covered in bold tattoos, including a large firebird across his throat, it's hard to imagine Astoria State's Danny Resnick sitting down to play classical piano.
Atmosphere has been creating hip-hop since the 90s
Atmosphere's Sean Daley didn’t have it easy growing up. The offspring of a forbidden teenage romance, Daley grew up a poor white kid in one of Minneapolis’ impoverished neighborhoods.
Alaska’s own Portugal. The Man reflects on 15 years Outside.
If you ask Zach Carothers and Eric Howk how they’ve been able to avoid the pitfalls of celebrity, they’d tell you it’s because they never forgot where they grew up and the music scene they helped create.
Social distancing efforts fail at Alien Ant Farm/Saliva show in the Mat-Su
Hours after Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz released Covid Emergency Order 15, hundreds of music fans flocked to nearby Palmer for the Rock in the Last Frontier concert.
Local musicians to play benefit concert for baby girl stricken with rare disease
As a videographer, Dan Redfield has a special connection and understanding of light. So, when he noticed that his newborn daughter, Ava Rose, was no longer responding to lighting changes, he suspected something wasn’t right.
Che Apalache ain't your mammy and pappy's fiddle music
Although ensconced in Spanish culture, Che Apalache’s Joe Troop soon found himself deep within an expat community of Argentinians who fled their country during the wake of Argentina’s Great Depression.
Dropkick Murphys, Shinedown and Slightly Stoopid take varying roads to the Alaska State Fair
As seemingly disparate as their backgrounds may be, many of the acts share a remarkable similarity that is rare in today’s music industry. They’ve all stayed together for over two decades.
Inside the life of Anchorage cover bands
The life of an Alaskan cover band is full of smokey bars, drunken dancing and a whole lot of rocking out to classic music.
The Return of Watsky
At 32-years-old, Watsky has released five full-length albums, written a New York Times Bestseller, appeared on Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and performed at the Kennedy Center three times. He’s also the same guy who briefly shutdown the Van’s Warped Tour in 2013 after taking a harrowing stage jump from 35-foot high rigging.
Why the caged bird sings
As Alaska’s only dedicated facility for housing female prisoners, Highland Mountain Correctional Center (HMCC) is already unique within Alaska’s Department of Corrections. In 2016, HMCC introduced another pioneering program—the Lullaby Project.
Baa Baa Black Sheep: Lullaby Project brings music behind prison bars
Each passing moment brought the female inmates closer to the reality that when the last song was sung, their children would go home and the prison doors would slam shut behind them.
August Burns Red breaks the mold on metal stereotype
Wearing a gray hoodie over a plaid button up with jeans and flip-flops, JB Brubaker looked more guy next door than metalhead, as he helped set up the sound stage at Anchorage Community Works on Saturday.
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