Hometown: Livingston Members: Ashly Jane Holland, Quinton King, Russ Smith, Tom Murphy, Britt Smith, Jamey Warren Current Release: Each Little Note (2013) Let’s make one thing clear: the frontwoman’s name isn’t really Little Jane. It is, however, Jane Holland, and she’s a triple threat who sings, ...
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Hometown: Bozeman Members: Dustin Tucker, Noah Heckmann, Levi Kujala Current Release: Golden Grenade (2012) With the help of Kickstarter, Golden Grenade released their first self-titled EP in 2012. The record is classic rock with a side of blues, and in songs like Love Again and She’s Got Me, the ...
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Hometown: Bozeman Members: Brandon Hale, Mike Hoffman, Kevin Toll, Tom Day, Adam Greenberg Current Release: The Dirty Shame (2010) The Dirty Shame is an outlaw country quintet whose rough, smoke-filled-bar, highwayman numbers have all the ruggedness and questionable morality of Willie Nelson and ...
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Hometown: Bozeman Members: Weston Lewis, Matt Rogers, Joe Sheehan, Jordan Rodenbiker, Garrett Rhinard, Steve Brown Current Release: Laser Beretta (2013) In 2008, Cure for the Common formed at Montana State University in Bozeman. After graduation, the guys stuck around Bozeman, where they’ve since ...
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Hometown: Bozeman Members: John McLellan, Levi Kujala, A.J. Miller, Josh Keeh Current Release: Sellout (2011) Listening to The Clintons’ 2005 album Strange Day in Mexico, I honestly wasn’t sure if it was the same group that made the newer Sellout. It is—that’s just how much they’ve evolved over the ...
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Hometown: Helena Members: Lenny Eckhardt, Jennifer Murphy Current Release: T B & S A (2013) Lenny Eckhardt and Jennifer Murphy are not, in fact, siblings—they’re just a pair of Helena-based friends with a mad talent for combining ’80s-era psychedelia with 21st-century electro-pop sounds. They ...
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