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Jacob Jones takes over The 615 tonight!
Lightning 100 had a change in their mission statement last year with a committment to focus more on local music, and we, obviously, support that mission 100%. One of the programs that came from that promise is The 615 which is a weekly, hour-long rundown with afternoon hosts Wells and Hammel to spotlight Nashville’s local independent music…
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Alanna Royale Wins The First 2013 Road To Bonnaroo
The competition was fierce, and the joint was packed last night for the first edition of Road To Bonnaroo 2013. The bands were bugging the crap out of fans all week with Facebook invites, and it showed when Mercy Lounge capped out around 10pm with a line stretching into the Cummins Station parking lot.…
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Third Shift Spotlight: The Patrick Sweany Interview
This Saturday is the big night! We’re teaming up with Third Shift Lager and some of our pals Electric Western Records, Elevent Productions, and East Nashville Underground for a one-night, two-stage, ten-band bill celebrating the diversity of Nashville’s independent music scene, and to send off the bands that have been selected to represent Nashville at South By Southwest 2013. The show is March 2nd, admission…
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Jay Luther Memorial Foundation Dinner Tonight at Germantown Cafe
It was a shock to Nashville when Jay Luther tragically passed last summer. The chef & co-founder of The Germantown Cafe left a mark on Nashville’s burgeoning culinary scene, and his legacy will be remembered in the Germantown neighborhood restaurant that was his passion. His partner, Chris Lowry, is hosting an amazingly generous event this evening…
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Third Shift Spotlight: The Jacob Jones Interview
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past week, you know that we’re teaming up with Third Shift Lager and some of our pals Electric Western Records, Elevent Productions, and East Nashville Underground for a one-night, two-stage, ten-band bill celebrating the diversity of Nashville’s independent music scene, and to send off the bands that have been selected to represent Nashville…
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TWiN | This Weekend In Nashville | 2/22 – 2/24
We don’t even feel like we are fully recovered from my ENU hangover, and another weekend is upon us. This is a very busy weekend for the Nashville music scene, and you should enjoy in moderation. Both because that is the safe and mature thing to do, but also because next weekend we are…
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East Nashville Underground Winter 2013 Recap
There is a good chance that your inability to remember East Nashville Underground this season wasn’t alchohol related. After tripling the number of pre-sales from the previous season, it didn’t take much of a walk up to send The East Room to capacity, and it didn’t take much to get the party started inside…
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Poni Silver (of The Ettes) Talks Nashville Fashion Week
Nashville Fashion Week is right around the corner, and, you are surely asking yourself, why is this music blogger (who has no sense of fashion) writing about Fashion Week. Well, because Poni (aka Maria) Silver, the drummer from Nashville’s The Ettes, moonlights in the fashion world, and that is surely newsworthy. Also, I’m a…
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TWiN | This Weekend In Nashville | 2/15 – 2/17
Here we go again. It’s another weekend in Nashville, and your hard working asses need to get moving to celebrate. If you are a regular follower of this rag, you’d find it hard to think we would even know that anything other than East Nashville Underground is going on over at The East Room this…
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Black Francis Wants To Be Your Valentine Tonight at Mercy Lounge
Has their been a more influential band than The Pixies? I would find it hard to argue against that, and I don’t think I stand alone in that sentiment. When The Pixies called it quits (read took a hiatus) in 1993, front man Frank Black (born with the far more regal name Charles Michael Kittridge…