Eleven years into their life as a band, Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s Dexateens are finally starting to get the notice they so richly deserve. Formed around the core of guitarists John Smith and Elliott McPherson, the band quickly added a third guitar and set to tearing up every rinky-dink roadside bar and honky-tonk they could weasel their way into. Local heroes The Quadrajets took the band under their wing, showing the five-some the ways of the road and helping Dexateens coalesce into a three-guitar juggernaut that left many a hometown band weeping into their post-set PBRs.
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Despite Matisyahu’s recent effort to become the leader of the NY Hanukkah celebration, Yo La Tengo has that position on lock down.
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