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Texas-born rocker Sterling Elza is rapidly emerging as one of the most exciting new voices bridging Red Dirt country and modern rock. Raised in a deeply musical family, Elza picked up the guitar at ...

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Nate Ruess always dreamed about deafening, distorted guitars. So, in early 2023, he went out and bought a Gibson SG and began writing capital-R rock songs. Never mind that he’d largely opted out of ...

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