Valley rappers Valley Boy Choze and Galax-C of 574 Entertainment have been putting the Valley on the map as far as Alaskan hip-hop goes, and are working on putting Alaska on the map of music hotbeds nationwide.
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From out of the black holes of space and imagination, and the corners of a few local coffee shops — a strange and visionary band has been living among us for the past four years, waiting and preparing to invade the Alaska music scene.
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Veteran Anchorage recording artist Jonathan Bower considers albums ‘books he’s not writing.’ His third album, ‘Light Years’ takes the next postmodern leap, with 10 tracks not just inspired by, or derivatives of influential artists, but actually homages to the songs that made him the musician…
Emily Anderson is back in Anchorage this week from Fairbanks to sing and perform her radiant brand of music.
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Andy Ball’s parents forced him to move to Anchorage from Denver in 1999. He was fourteen. “One way that I felt like I could get back at them for moving me to Alaska when I didn't want to be in Alaska was starting a punk band and practicing in (their) garage,” he said. “It drove them crazy.”
Unknowns will play their third show at Van’s Dive Bar this Friday, January 12th. The rock and blues original outfit will also share the stage with The Spenerds, the hottest surf rock cover band you’ve ever heard. Unknowns’s drummer, Joel Ramert, plays with The Spenerds, as did bassist Greg W…
In March of last year, Dennis Gould was making his normal Saturday rounds marking tires downtown for the Parking Authority. As an employee on an off for the last five years, Gould knew just every inch of the area. So, it came as a surprise to see an unfamiliar truck in the 4th Avenue Mall lo…
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When 26-year-old Jonathan Heynen relocated to Juneau from Whitehorse, Yukon in 2008 he never expected to discover his true calling.
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This crazy band I'm in started out in the late '90s as a gimmick. An Anchorage club owner asked me to put together an "all girl band" and, distasteful as that was, I made a few calls and pulled in a classic rock guitarist, an '80s keyboard player, a country drummer and a blues bass player.
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Few bands have risen to prominence in recent memory as quickly as X Ambassadors. Hailing from Ithaca, New York, the foursome-Sam Harris, Casey Harris, Noah Feldshuh and Adam Levin-came together in 2006. Feldshuh and the Harris brothers grew up together, but Levin soon found a deep friendship…
