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    PUTTING THE ‘ART’ IN ‘HEART’

    May 21, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT DORIA.
    PHOTO BY
    BRIAN COX.

    Anyone who’s met him will attest that Bert McCraken is one hell of a character: the Utah-native emo legend exudes eccentricity, his communal personality an amalgam of friendliness, hilarity and angst, with just a tinge of mania for good measure. Such rubs off emphatically on his songwriting in The Used, where he pairs acidic, brutally honest quips with an idiosyncratic whimsicality. It’s why The Used are such an extraordinary force – there are no other bands like them, because there are no other bands with Bert McCracken in them.

    Though he’s always kept The Used fairly close to his chest – ‘collaborative’ isn’t often

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