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Louisville’s Forecastle Festival just took a major step at becoming a major player in the summer festival scene with the announcement of their 2014 lineup including hip-hop legends Outkast, Nashville residing Third Man honcho Jack White, and (one of our heroes) Beck (have you heard that new record yet?!?!) as headliners. The good times don’t…
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Banner By Planet Left In countries across South and Central America, this is a weekend of parades and revelry in celebration of Carnivale. In New Orleans, this same weekend takes those parades and revelry to a typically puke filled, where did I leave my shirt last night, haze of garbage, filth, and beads hanging in…
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Nashville-gone-Burger-gone-national rockers, Natural Child, are set to finish off Freakin’ Weekend in a couple of weeks, and Paste Magazine just dropped a premiere of their anticipated new LP ‘Dancin With Wolves’. We could’ve waited around for a few weeks to get you a stream, but what’s the fun in that? Right!?!? So, let’s get this…
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No Country friends, Marathon Music Works and Lightning 100, have teamed up for a full on spring time stroll down awesome lane with the announcement of their Spring Block Party. What separates this from any of the other welcome-out-of-winter parties? The stellar line up, of course including The Wild Feathers, The Apache Relay, Sol Cat,…
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Nashville’s Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes are set to host an unprecedented 24-hour long livestream to hype the release of their highly anticipated full length, Kid Tiger, which drops on March 4th. The livestream will run from 6pm on Sunday March 2nd until 6pm on Monday March 3rd, and will include a number…
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The much anticipated release of Ancestor by Nashville’s Stone Jack Jones is set to drop on March 4th via Western Vinyl, but we’ve been digging on a pre-release of this record for almost a month now. Today, we are giving you a chance to delve into the dark, edgy, emotive record a week early,…
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The Great Southern Brood may perfectly describe the sound of the debut full length release from Honey Locust. Full of ornate arrangements, the vision of primary Locusters (Jake Davis and Patrick Howell) is described as southern gothic chamber folk, but the tasteful instrumentation keeps the listener eagerly tuned in throughout. Think Beirut with less pomp and arrogance. We brought…
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Banner by Holley Maher Creative Spring seems to be creeping in, if not for the warming weather this week has brought, it is for the plethora of insane shows that are suddenly going on. Call it a fluke, call it the beginning of awesome bands swarming about the country in preparation for the madness…
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Here we go again. It’s time for the Music City Mayhem competition. Hundreds of artists submit to make the 32 spot playoff field, and from there it is all about getting the votes and hustling. Lulu Mae won the competition last year, and past winners have included Roots Of A Rebellion (2012), Eastern Block…
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For those of you diehards out there who are reeling for more rather than licking your wounds after Freakin’ Weekend, we have another DIY festival, festhau5, that is sure to tickle some of your fancies. rΔchel and paco tapes have teamed up to bring you some down and dirty DIY rock tunes over at…