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Tonight’s 8 off 8th at The High Watt features a slew of great bands that previously played East Nashville Underground festivals. The alumni lineup includes: Schools. They opened for Grouplove last month in Nashville. Also, check out their video for the song “Alien.” Cult Logic. On September 6, they released their self-titled EP. Check it out here. Allen…
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Nashville’s best 90s cover band, My So-Called Band, has decided to cover Weezer again. For their third annual album tribute, they’ll be playing songs from The Blue Album as well as encore songs from Pinkerton. This time, they chose to time travel back to the 90s at West Nashville’s newest music venue, The Stone Fox. These two albums are classic as…
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What’s in a name? I usually avoid the dissection of a band name. If it sounds good, it just fits and I use it without thinking about it. But this time, I had to go a few steps further. I heard the name Machines Are People Too (MRP2) through conversations of Chattanooga music lore, especially MRP2’s dance-till-you-drop…
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The Features will always be one of the psychedelic anthems of my teenage youth. The track “Kids” on their latest album Wilderness takes me back to those college days at MTSU, when I was a reckless and raging-to-music teenager. I remember head-banging and flailing my arms to The Features songs during their performance at…
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Mike Patton’s stage presence during live Tomahawk shows is just as unique as his character and vocals. He resembles a chemist on stage, concocting vocal formulas and potions that produce interesting sounds. He wears a gas mask with a microphone inside of it to produce a muffling effect, and the sound is like that…
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This weekend is action-packed like The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai. This movie obviously implies many different adventures, or musical experiences if you will. Observe: Friday The two-day festival With Your Friends kicks off tonight and also runs on Saturday. It boasts a stellar lineup with Skrillex, Pretty Lights, Nas, Santigold, 12th Planet, Dillon Francis,…
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Minus The Bear’s latest record “Infinity Overhead” suggests an atmosphere of sound options swirling in the night sky next to the stars, waiting to be harnessed and put to good use. These Seattle rockers selected the best options, or those they confide in, and carefully put them in their songs like puzzle pieces. Many…
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What more could you want on a Friday night besides Jackalope beer, Thai food, and a party? Music from these bands of course: Kansas Bible Company isn’t trying to convert you to any certain religion, but they are trying to convert the normal head-bobbing, arms-folded and skeptical audience member to an arms flailing, uncontrollable…
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You always wonder how the band you have grown to love is going to sound live. Every show has a different vibe, sound quality, and crowd. All these can be factors that determine how good the show is. Well I have grown to love Rubblebucket recently. And I watched their live performance of “Came…
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This week’s edition of Lightning 100’s Live on the Green features: The smooth panache of Fly Golden Eagle. The opening track, “2nd Hour of the Night,” on their latest album Swagger hovers smoothly, somewhere between Studio 54, disco and yacht rock. You can listen to Swagger below: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/1281991″ height=”200″ iframe=”true” /] The pop…