Blog: Buzz Bands

Leave it to a white boy from Chewelah, Wash., with nerdy red glasses to disguise a letter addressing politics as a love song in the style of D’Angelo. In fact, it wouldn’t be a surprise if a first-time listener already mistook 24-year-old Allen Stone for the infamous soul singer. But even with heavy influences that range from Stevie Wonder and Sam Cooke to Maxwell and Prince, Stone’s self-titled sophomore album is taking him beyond the typical singer-songwriter scene. Stone’s rise from his humble beginnings as son of a preacher man in a western Washington hamlet (pop. 2,607) to [...]