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Album Review: Hotpipes – Dust
In case anyone hasn’t figured it out yet, I listen to Lightning 100 a lot. In fact, I’d say that my dial stays tuned to 100.1 for 99% of the time, only turning when I don’t think I can stand hearing one more spin of “Stubborn Love” by The Lumineers.…
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East Nashville Underground Spring 2013 | Saturday Night Preview
Hell to the YES! It’s that time again, Nashville — where we celebrate another season like some indie rock pagans in a home-grown festival fit for Dionysus in skinny jeans. Spring is SPRUNG and we’re making like Punxsutawney Phil and heading underground for what is sure to be the most…
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Artist Feature: The Blackfoot Gypsies–New Sounds of Transwestern
Blackfoot Gypsies?! HELL, you must mean the Cherokee Cowboys or the Drifting Cowboys! It’s Cherokee we know all about here–Willie Nelson, Loretta, Cash, Ray Price, Elvis, Sequoyah, and our beloved East Tennessee neighbors. If you haven’t been to the TN State Pow-Wow or the Qualla Arts Festival–I personally recommend you…
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No Country Does Memphis: Beale St. Music Fest Recap & Photo Gallery
“Long distance information, give me Memphis, TN…” And Memphis in mud it was! For those of you who aren’t from the 901, Memphis in May (MIM) is a month-long festival that is made up of 4 main events, and we got to check out the kick-off event of this year’s…
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East Nashville Underground Spring 2013 | Saturday Day Session Preview
Hell to the YES! It’s that time again, Nashville — where we celebrate another season like some indie rock pagans in a home-grown festival fit for Dionysus in skinny jeans. Spring is SPRUNG and we’re making like Punxsutawney Phil and heading underground for what is sure to be the most…
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Tonight: Mercy Bell with Adrian Krygowski and James Maple
As Lightning 100’s Wells Adams prepared to hand over the 2013 Music City Mayhem crown to local family-band folk-rockers Lulu Mae, he stopped to give a special acknowledgement to runner-up Mercy Bell. “In all our years of doing this,” he mused, “we’ve never seen anyone hustle like Mercy and her crew.…
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[Ticket Giveaway] The Generationals with Brass Bed | The High Watt | May 10
It’s been almost two years since I started this little rag, and the band I’m about to talk about is one of the reasons that it ever started at all. As a transplant from a larger market, bands that pinged highly on Pitchfork (I’ll save my diatribe on that one for…
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The National w/ Frightened Rabbit | 9.8 @ The Ryman | Presale Details!
Indie post-punks The National recently announced a fall tour in support of their highly-anticipated new album, Trouble Will Find Me (out 5/20), which includes a stop at our very own Ryman Auditorium on Sunday, September 8. The group last played The Ryman in 2010, and last played Nashville at Vanderbilt’s Rites of Spring in 2011.…





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