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A singular BoDeans is keeping the sound going
A singular BoDeans is keeping the sound going

It's been more than three years since the departure of BoDeans co-frontman Sam Llanas. The split wasn't a huge deal internally by co-founder Kurt Neumann's estimates — Neumann says he had been doing the majority of recording and tour setup work for years — but it was a seismic shift in the public life of the band. The BoDeans spent the intervening years attempting to navigate a post-Llanas landscape and a much altered music industry that, to a band that spent decades under the protection of a major label, feels like an alien planet. The BoDeans, born and raised in Wisconsin and now based outside of Austin, Texas, will drop a new album, the poppier, rockier...