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Howard Hardee

Howard Hardee is a freelance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, he has a BA in journalism and writes stories about music, outdoor adventures, politics, and the environment for alt-weeklies across the country. He is an aficionado of fine noises and has a theremin in his living room.

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The Black Lips Roll Out Album of Seedy Country Songs and Barroom Sing-Alongs

By Howard Hardee
Jan 16, 2020

The long-running Atlanta garage-rockers transform themselves for an album of seedy country music and good-time rock 'n' roll designed for barroom sing-alongs.
The Claypool Lennon Delirium Sets Out for Sea and Space on the Jam Cruise

By Howard Hardee
Jan 3, 2020

The collaboration between Primus figurehead Les Claypool and Sean Lennon will be performing on the psychedelic music-oriented Jam Cruise, which departs from Miami on Tuesday, January 7.
Futuristic Jazz Duo Twyn Returns With Raw Cuts From the Studio Floor

By Howard Hardee
Dec 16, 2019

By the standards of two accomplished jazz players such as Glueckauf and Matthews, these are simple, bare-bones songs that are intended to be less heady and more primal than their previous work together.
Third Eye Blind Embraces Modern Sounds Without Pandering to Mainstream Charts

By Howard Hardee
Nov 15, 2019

The United States of the late 1990s was "so innocent" in the eyes of Third Eye Blind drummer Brad Hargreaves. China hadn't joined the World Trade Organization and begun its rise to economic superpower; Russia was still sorting through the rubble of the Soviet Union; the 9/11 terror attacks hadn't yet upended U.S. culture, and America seemed to stand unchallenged on the world stage.
Posthardcore Veteran Cursive Returns With an Anxiety-Fueled Album

By Howard Hardee
Nov 8, 2019

Cursive frontman Tim Kasher says the 24-hour news cycle and a steady diet of surreal headlines are contaminating the stream of consciousness he calls upon when writing the emo and posthardcore group's music.

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