Some might say Playboy Manbaby is a silly name for a band, or for anything, really. But maybe that’s the point? That’s something Robbie Pfeffer, lead singer of Playboy Manbaby, makes note of about himself and the Phoenix music scene. It’s more of a happy-to-be-here type of situation. You’ll notice that in the theatrical punk […]
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Back to the Blues
After albums featuring soul, funk and gospel, Jonny Lang goes back to some of his original sounds
Jonny Lang says his current album, “Signs,” is an example of just letting an album be what it wanted to be musically. “I don’t know what will come next,” Lang said in a recent phone interview. “But yeah, this one was just the record that felt right in this season of my life.” “Signs” is the […]
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Born in the USA
The Americans are just that
Donning white cotton V-neck t-shirts with the sleeves rolled up, slicked back high-and-tight haircuts, and strumming out old-timey spirituals with a country twist, you’d be hard pressed to find a band that better embodies its band name than The Americans—unless they renamed the band Ode to Vintage Manliness. “Where we are changes the way people […]