Following the dissolution of Knoxville, TN's V-Roys, co-leader Scott Miller wasted no time in moving on to arguably more fertile ground. On Thus Always to Tyrants, he brings the best elements of his previous band (the raucous barroom rock and country kicks) and adds a sense of drama and history, here joined by premier talents like former Arc Angel and John Mellencamp sideman Dave Grissom (guitars) and bluegrass limelight Tim O'Brien (fiddle, vocals). At the centerpiece of the ...   [ read more ]

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Scott Miller's solo debut, Thus Always to Tyrants, was an ambitious, stylistically diverse set that fully lived up to the promise of his earlier work with the V-Roys, running from pop to hard rock to bluegrass and sounding fiery and convincing at all turns. However, for his second album Miller opted for something a bit less grand, and while he often sounds a lot more relaxed on Upside Downside (so named because it was sequenced to have a rock side and an acoustic side), he also o...   [ read more ]

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'Birdsongs of the Mesozoic started out as a side collaboration between two gods of the Boston art-punk scene: Mission of Burma's guitarist Roger Miller (who wanted an outlet for his keyboard compositions) and Erik Lindgren, who had played keyboards for an early version of Burma called Moving Parts. Adding third keyboardist Rick Scott and fellow Burma member Martin Swope on guitar, the quartet recorded an eponymous EP, a full-length album (Magnetic Flip), and then another EP (Beat of the Mesozoic), all on ...   [ read more ]

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