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The coronavirus pandemic has impacted daily life all over the country, but Oakland, Calif. artist Thao Nguyen and her band, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down, took the hardship as a challenge. The group set to film a music video for their new single, “Phenom,” in Los Angeles (where Nguyen currently resides) in late …

Friday on “Closer Look with Rose Scott”: 0:00: An 18-mile stretch of I-85 starting in Lagrange, Georgia has been called ‘the highway of the future.’ Known as The Ray, the roadway is a testing point for pavement solar cells and allows the highway’s surface to generate clean energy.  Allie Kelly, executive director of The Ray, …

Ask most musicians what genre they play and you’ll likely get a prickly response. As one well-known, and slightly tipsy, jazz musician once told me: “If you all stopped obsessing about me playing ‘jazz’, maybe I would be playing festival stages rather than tiny clubs by now.” But while there have been meandering debates about …

The Generationals are a little more than a month away from the release of their new LP, Reader As Detective. Their latest single ‘Breaking Your Silence’ is a slice of summertime sweetness, offering airy instrumentation and sensational melodies in abundance. The song’s video, directed by Spencer Kelly, places bandmates Grant Widmer and Ted Joyner on …