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We first caught wind of Alabama Shakes in late 2011 after seeing them included in a handful of those inevitable year-end lists.

Underneath the perfectly blue Alabama skies, 35,000 festival-goers soaked up the sun and basked in the beach breeze during the third year of the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama this past weekend.

No band got into the spring break spirit of Alabama's sunny Hangout Festival quite like Cage the Elephant. SPIN's cameras caught them hanging in the sand and getting unexpectedly cute lower back tattoos...

Orange Beach Festival of Art Since the 1970s, the Festival of the Art has been the Gulf Coast's first rite of spring. The Festival is a celebration of the visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, music and culinary arts.

The massive crowds in front of the stages for performances by Alabama Shakes and Yelawolf this afternoon made one thing quite clear: Alabama is on the map for hot music.

This weekend, the Hangout Music Festival storms the beach of Gulf Shores, Alabama, for three days of sun, surf and shenanigans. Grab your suntan lotion and grease up for the 10 acts we're most excited about!

Band say they'd love to work with the former White Stripes man again

Gallery - MOBILE, Alabama -- As the University of South Alabama Commencement Band played "Pomp and Circumstance," the 1,347 new graduates of USA filed into the Mitchell Center on Saturday afternoon to cheers from family and friends.

by Selena Frye Don't be fooled by the little black dresses -- the ladies fronting bands at Uncle Slayton's Thursday night were more hellcat than Hepburn. Both Alabama Brown, opening with her band the Inside Outlaws, and headliner Lydia Loveless belied their lady-like exteriors with brash lyrics and rowdy, foot-stomping songs, mining the always-popular territory of the men who disappoint them ...

The Vaccines, Bon Iver and Jarvis Cocker are also fans of the world's hottest new band

Modest as always, Dr. Johnny Long, legendary director of bands at Troy University, graciously accepted the congratulations of the Alabama State Legislature for his long and continuous contributions to band music and for his being named the winner of the Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspiration Award in March.