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Morocco-born, Manitoba, Canada-raised artist Faouzia Ouihya has been making music for the better part of a decade, racking up millions of streams alongside awards for her songwriting and her powerful ...

Influenced by Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath, Rush, Herbie Hancock and The Meters, The Alive is a California rock band launched between surf and skate sessions in 2018.

“The studio is my room,” vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist Jess Allanic says. The title is a reference to the Manchester, England band carrying its own chaotic workload on its shoulders. “The ...

The forearms of Matt Maeson are tattooed with a foreboding message: “Born a sinner,” says one. “Die a martyr,” concludes the other. The statement itself may be pure rock and roll, but that was not the ...

SACRAMENTO — Orange County metalcore quartet Dayseeker didn’t plan to make a Halloween record; it just turned out that way. The band walked into a studio last year and it took this long to make ...

Shawn Robbins is an event and concert photographer, and a father of a monster truck-obsessed toddler. An active duty member of the U.S. Coast Guard and writer for the Duffel Blog (a military satire ...

Layla Bohm spent 10 years in the newspaper industry, the last eight at the Lodi News Sentinel, before moving to a desk job in the East Bay. She now lives in Portland, Ore., when she's not traveling ...

“We aim to expand the possibility of metal music and this album carries our wish to be a part of it,” vocalist and dancer Moa “MOAMETAL” Kikuchi said over email recently. “There are many artists who ...