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Floating Action w/ Natalie Prass & Bryan Cates @ The Stone Fox Tonight.
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Floating Action, the moniker for the music of outdoor sportsman and red-bearded mountaineer Seth Kaufman, features tunes rooted in adventure, nature, distant travels, biking, snowboarding, and other outdoor endeavors. But it could also be Seth Kaufman‘s personal outdoor life soundtrack, as I envision him being the quintessential outdoorsman as the star of the music videos for his songs.…
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Ill Patriot, Sexx, The Tendoor, and McKenzie Gregg & the Tangles @ Exit/In Tonight
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Ill Patriot is bang-your-head, politics-on-your-sleeve punk/hardcore music that is reminiscent of the melodic in-your-face approach of punk rockers Propagandhi, although Ill Patriot certainly has an aggressive hardcore side that sets them apart. I can see the mosh pits forming in my mind, and I’m trying to avoid them until I can’t take it anymore…
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Reverend Horton Heat w/Hillbilly Casino and Rickett Pass @ Exit/In Tonight
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Even though I’m not a modern country music fan, lately I’ve been a fan of musicians with tasteful and/or jaw-dropping chops that make their living playing offshoots of country music, which include bluegrass, Americana, Western swing, and rockabilly. Reverend Horton Heat has those types of musicians, and certainly could be called rockabilly. But they’ve taken the “rock” in…
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Flashback to Friday: Charlie Hardin, The Summer Country, James Austin Johnson @ The 5 Spot
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After a long weekend, I consider the act of trying to remember Friday a difficult flashback, not just because of the tasty, mind-numbing beverages, but also because I purposefully compounded my schedule with weekend social engagements. Hey, I like to stay busy. I started out Friday night engaged in an interesting conversation about the…
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Charlie Hardin, The Summer Country and Comedian James Austin Johnson @ The 5 Spot Tonight
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Charlie Hardin was once Charlie Murphey. Wait, he still is. But don’t confuse him with writer, comedian and actor Charlie Murphy (who starred in the Chappelle Show). If you’ve seen the two together in real life, the resemblance is uncanny. Let me tell you…. Perhaps that’s a reason for the moniker change: the similar…
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David Bazan plays Pedro The Lion’s Control w/Stagnant Pools @ Exit In
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David Bazan was the driving force and primary songwriter behind the band Pedro the Lion. Since the “break-up” in January of 2006, Bazan’s music under his own moniker has been resolutely great and probably liberating. However, in order to celebrate the vinyl re-issues of Pedro The Lion’s back-catalog and the 10th Anniversary of the band’s…
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Kaki King w/Lady Lamb The Beekeeper @ The High Watt Tonight
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Kaki King would never refer to herself as a guitar god. In fact, she considers herself a lifelong guitar student as she is always challenging herself to play something new and different on the guitar. Yet, that was how she was labeled when she first began her musical career. It’s a term that certainly makes some sense, at least…
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East Nashville Underground: Fall 2012 Rundown
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It was another amazing weekend, and another awesome season for East Nashville Underground. We divided and conquered this season, so we’ll be giving you a rundown from a few different voices. Matt took on Friday night, Jessika had Saturday day, and Andrew dragged his ass into Saturday night. It was a hell of a…
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Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day Tonight @ The Belcourt Theatre
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The Belcourt Theatre is showing the film Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day tonight only at 9:30 pm. The film features live footage of a tribute concert that Led Zeppelin did on December 10, 2007 in London’s O2 Arena for Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who died on December 14, 2006 at 83 years of age. This…
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Machines Are People Too: A Brief Interview and Show Review.
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Before Machines Are People Too (MRP2) took the stage at The High Watt last Thursday, I had the chance to ask them some questions about their band and their music. NC (No Country): How did you choose your band name? MRP2: When the band first started, it was me (Bryan Sylvester) and JJ Clark. We…