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By Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Tattoos, piercings, heroin, dreads, distorted drum machines, noisy guitars, a gallon of angst and dirt all made up the Ministry that wandered out of the Lollapalooza Generation. But in the beginning, there was a "kinder, gentler" Ministry, much more in tune with the synth-pop sounds of the early ’80s. In […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor Many a good story begins with the phrase, "seemingly out of nowhere," so, seemingly out of nowhere, Florence Welch came forth with her Machine and presented her debut recording in the summer of 2009. Welch, barely 23 years old at the time, had worked on various projects before […]
Read MoreBy Sarah Swirsky, MSW, LISW Roots and Resilience is a series celebrating artists whose stories reveal how music can help us overcome adversity, embrace vulnerability, and transform life’s challenges into creative expression. Did you know Grammy-winning guitarist and songwriter Molly Tuttle has lived with alopecia universalis since she was just three years old? Alopecia is […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor It didn't take long for Paul Westerberg to prove he was more than a drunk punk. From those very first Replacements records, songs like “Kids Don’t Follow,” “I’m in Trouble,” and “Color Me Impressed” all showed the guy knew how to write a good song. By 1984's Let It […]
Read MoreBy Dave Swanson - Summit FM Contributor The Bangles were, in many ways, a textbook example of a great rock and roll band who got sucked into the corporate system and drained of all that made them so special. Following the death of John Lennon in December of 1980, guitarist Vicki Peterson became fast friends […]
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