Author: Luca Hartman
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Partying with the Techno Fans: The Wombats at Newport
In 2003, a trio of musicians met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and quickly formed a band with an unusual name: The Wombats. Wombats are a marsupial native to Australia that poop cubes. I am not kidding; look it up. With their quirky band name, the Wombats began releasing music, gaining traction in…
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Circling the Drain: Soccer Mommy’s Night On North High Street
Nashville-native, Sophia Allison, better known by Soccer Mommy, took the stage at Newport on Friday, September 28th. Allison got her start at New York University, where she majored in music business, but after playing her first performance as Soccer Mommy, she was signed by the record company Fat Possum and soon dropped out of school…
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Getting Emotionally Attached to Sharon Van Etten
Singer song-writer Sharon Van Etten has been active in the music scene since 2009, but for her seventh album, she decided to embark on a new conquest: creating a band. After jamming with fellow musicians, Van Etten formed a band called Van Etten and The Attachment Theory. The new band released their self-titled album in…