Gannon Hanevold
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Published in Phoenix New Times on Sep. 10, 2021 When Danielle Durack was 8 years old, she told her father she wanted to be a famous singer. The conversation happened in a Taco Bell, and her father replied, “Well, if you become a famous singer, you can’t go to Taco Bell anymore.” Durack still laughs
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Sep. 18, 2024 Dierks Bentley is a 14-time Grammy Award nominee, a 27-time Country Music Award nominee, the performer of 18 No. 1 country songs and the third-youngest member of the Grand Ole Opry. But he doesn’t really like writing songs. “If I’m being completely honest with my fans,
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Published in The Alternative on Mar. 22, 2024 Of course I know that it rains in Seattle. What I didn’t know until I visited the city for the first time is how it rains in Seattle. The city’s rain comes subtly, not in a downpour. The moisture in the air seeps into your clothes, forming
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Jan. 26, 2024 Kevin Paller is calculated and calculating. You might think the 30-year-old songwriter-guitarist for Rock Island-based indie band Frozen Fructose Laundromat would be decisively right-brained. After all, Paller plucked his band’s name straight from a teenage memory, one where he drank a root beer float at a
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Published in the Phoenix New Times on Aug. 26, 2022 TJ Friga feels like Howard Dean. Yes, 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean. Dean is best known for his meme-worthy rant, topped by an iconic voice-cracking scream, after finishing in third place at the 2004 Iowa caucus. The stuttering and passionate moment took Dean off
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Aug. 7, 2024 Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis is one of my favorite places in America. It’s serene, speckled with emerald oak trees and gravel pathways, centered around a hole-in-the-ground waterfall. It’s also an anomaly. How could a park so lush and organically overgrown exist two miles from an international
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Published in the Quad-City Times on Aug. 2, 2024 JW Francis doesn’t have an address. Some weeks, he lives in his home state of Oklahoma at his grandma’s house in Sapulpa. That’s the town of around 20,000 where Daisy Edgar-Jones’ fictional “Twisters” character grew up — big news in the local papers, Francis says. Other
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Published in the Minnesota Star Tribune on Aug. 8, 2023 Lewis McCaleb is learning to wear his crown. The 25-year-old St. Paul-based musician, who performs under the name Lewiee Blaze, has been thrust into adversity and leadership his whole life, and the burden of authority hasn’t always been easy to carry. But if you see
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Published in the Quad-City Times on July 31, 2024 Mac Hanson loves to use the phrase “long walk.” The bluesy rock songwriter came back to it multiple times during our 40-minute phone interview this week. Hanson called from his car, driving past a PetCo and a Chipotle in his adopted home of Hollywood. “The long
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Published in Phoenix New Times on Aug. 23, 2022 It’s hard for Travis Matylewicz to believe what’s happened in the last four months. “It legitimately went from nothing to everything I have now within just maybe three hours,” the Tempe indie rocker, better known by his stage name Travis Stacey, told Phoenix New Times in
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