Genre Cowboys

Artists and bands whose creativity knows no bounds

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Keeping with this issue’s theme, creativity unleashed, these songs are just a small sample of the variation these artists are capable of. What makes a band last more than 2 albums? What breeds innovation? Variety.

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Cage the Elephant formed in Bowling Green, KY in 2006 and since then have tried their hand at every genre out there with equally outrageous music videos.

-Ainʻt No Rest for the Wicked- storybook garage rock

-Cigarette Daydreams

-Skin and Bones- Synth driven glam rock

-Too Late To Say Goodbye

-Mess Around

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The 1975 formed in 2002 and evolves their sound with each album. Their fourth album, Notes on a Conditional Form, is the epitome of experimentation. This album has elements of country, synth-pop, punk, and anything else you can imagine.

-Heart Out

-Give Yourself A Try

-People- Punk garage rock with predominant vocals.

-I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it- A symphonic melody dripped in synth notes and strangely patterned beats.

-Roadkill

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Dan Auerbach is an American singer/songwriter and co-founder of the Black Keys and founder of the Arcs. On top of his two bands, he has a solo career. Through these three projects, he has challenged the bounds of traditional alternative rock, blues rock, and folk-rock.

-Cellophane Angel- this sweet tune pulls one through the old streets of New Orleans on a gorgeous summer day sipping frosty iced tea. The subtle cooing of trumpets dance off the lyrics blending together and creating an ageless track.

-Heartbroken, in Disrepair

-Put a Flower in Your Pocket (The Arcs)

-Weight of Love (The Black Keys)- This power ballad sings not only of a love lost but warns of the stronghold love can have over a person. The heavy topic is matched and heightened with its wonderful guitar solos and delicious riffs and mellowed with periods of strange melodic tones with sporadic notes.

-The Lengths (The Black Keys)

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The Growlers. Wow. Talk about evolution, the Growlers have been to the depths of the sea and back. The bandʻs first three albums are a much more classic take on the surf-rock revival of today. The next four albums flow through 70ʻs funk, pop, alternative rock, and continue their contributions to the revival of surf-rock.

-Sea Lion Goth Blues

-Wet Dreams- outlaw country ballad with a consistent timing beat similar to that of hooves trotting across a desert

-Rare Hearts

-Dope on a Rope- Surf rock beats with a nostalgic tone reminiscent of an 80s disco

-Orgasm of Death

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As the saying goes, “A jack of all trades is a master of none but, oftentimes better than a master of one”.

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~Reagan Thornley with contributions from Connor Hinkle