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Minneapolis indie rock band Hippo Campus –– made up of vocalist/guitarists Jake Luppen and Nathan Stocker, drummer Whistler Allen, bassist Zach Sutton, and trumpeter DeCarlo Jackson –– has grown up and into itself. Although the five-piece has been friends since middle school and put out a number of studio releases since its inception, it’s the new record, LP3, that’s the most honest portrait of who Hippo Campus is. It’s a study in the nuances of growing up — coming to terms with mortality, the confusing journey of sexuality, bottoming out, seeing decisions from the night before in the harsh morning light; finding your identity as a person and as an artist — how that can be a collision of elation and shame, painful and joyful all at once. LP3 is their strongest and most complete work yet — a freshly inked portrait excavating young adulthood and identity and, more importantly, how that personal...

Award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Jon Pardi has refined and defined a country sound that’s long on punch, power and the kind of honkytonk that gets people drinking, dancing and drowning their heartaches. His fourth studio album, Mr. Saturday Night, is out everywhere now and features his fifth #1 single “Last Night Lonely,” plus 13 more tracks steeped in losing, a little loving and what’s in between. Mr. Saturday Night follows Pardi’s chart-topping CMA and ACM nominated album, Heartache Medication, Platinum-certified sophomore release California Sunrise, and a list of smash hits including “Dirt On My Boots” (4X Platinum) “Head Over Boots” (4X Platinum), “Heartache On The Dance Floor” (3X Platinum), “Night Shift” (2X Platinum), “Heartache Medication” (2X Platinum) and more. The unrepentant Cali-tonker acclaimed by The New York Times, Cowboys & Indians, Variety, Rolling Stone, NPR and the Los Angeles Times has appeared on Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, TODAY, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Kelly Clarkson Show. Pardi recently wrapped his headlining...