The story of the Alabama Shakes begins in a high school psychology class in Athens, Alabama. Brittany Howard, who had started playing guitar a few years earlier, approached Zac Cockrell and asked if he wanted to try making music together. "I just knew that he played bass and that he wore shirts with cool bands on them that nobody had heard of," says Howard. They started to meet up after school and write songs sitting on Howard's floor....

Wesley - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Piano Jeremiah - Drums, Yells Neyla - Cello, Piano, vox"Wesley Schultz, 9, who wants to be an artist, said, 'I spend a lot of time on my drawings and it turns out good 'cause I've been practicing a lot.'" -The New York Times, 3/15/92 Twenty years ago, Wesley Schultz saw the future. Back then, growing up in the New York City suburb of Ramsey, New Jersey, Wesley spent his days drawing side by side with hi...

Here We Go Magic was originated by Luke Temple in Brooklyn, NY after releasing two albums under his own name in the 2000s. In early 2009, Temple released his first self-titled album as Here We Go Magic that he recorded by himself on a 4-track recorder at home. He only had access to miminal equipment including a synth machine, which he used in place of a full drum kit and bass guitar. This album was much different then what Temple was releasing as a solo artist with much dreamery loops of sound a...