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• Mount Moriah, 'Miracle Temple' (Merge)

  February 27, 2013 – Like a lot of bands from the American South, Durham, North Carolina's Mount Moriah sound voluntarily haunted by tradition. Their style is as traceable to Lynyrd Skynyrd as to Lucinda Williams, Southern artists who built careers by contradicting as many myths about where they came from as they embraced. …
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  Mount Moriah: Rootsy Carolina Balladeers Nod at the Old En Route to the New

  February 26, 2013 – Who: As befits two folks who met while working at a Chapel Hill, North Carolina record store, guitarist Jenks Miller and singer Heather McEntire solidified their music partnership via a time-tested method. "We made a bunch of mixtapes for each other," says McEntire, who'd been playing in punk bands back in 2007 when she met her future musical partner. "It was a lot of Gillian Welch, Neko Case, Lucinda Williams. …
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  5 Best New Artists for February '13

  February 1, 2013 – From a New York noise maven to a dream-weaving, Nashville-based guitar virtuoso to an intrepid South Bay rapper, here are five artists you should know. DAVID BEVAN, PHILIP SHERBURNE, and BRANDON SODERBERG …
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  Hear Mount Moriah's Luminous Southern-Rock Shuffler 'Bright Light'

  January 22, 2013 – Though it's been relatively unnoticed amid the flood of micro-genres washing over Tumblr dashboards these past few years, there has been a resurgence of strong, female-led acts who kick up dive-bar grime when country cavorts with punk. Along with Caitlin Rose and Lydia Loveless, there's also Mount Moriah, whose sophomore album, Miracle Temple, comes out February 26 on Merge. …
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