Artist Ben Kweller

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Ben Kweller

By 1997, Ben Kweller’s fabled band Radish was doomed to failure by overzealous music critics who saddled the 10th-grade frontman with comparisons to Kurt Cobain. Since then, Kweller has been able to beat the rap and show off his versatile songwriting with a series of poppy, folky records grounded in unfussy piano and tambourine jangle. 2009’s Changing Horses marked Kweller’s first full-on dalliance with country, an inevitability his Texas twang always hinted at. Kweller is celebrating the self-release of Go Fly A Kite, his fifth album, first through his label The Noise Company, and presumably based on the affable frontman’s parting words with ATO.

Updated 02/02/2012