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  • Radiohead’s Five Night Stand In NYC

    You heard that Radiohead spent the last week or so in NYC, right?  They played Fallon, Colbert Report, and Saturday Night Live.  Oh yeah, they also played two VERY SOLD OUT nights at The Roseland Ballroom.  I wanted to compile all the videos of those performances into a single post…. Well, I am obviously…

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  • Arctic Monkeys & Smith Westerns, War Memorial, Tonight In Nashville

    I have seen both of these bands this year, and what do you think they had in common?  I didn’t expect much out of either, and both Smith Westerns and Arctic Monkeys turned out to be festival highlights for me.  Spin Magazine also agrees that this tour is one of the top 30 of…

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  • YUCK!, Mercy Lounge, Tonight In Nashville

    It’s a funny looking headline, I know.  But, if you haven’t heard about the band YUCK! yet, then you have probably been hiding under a rock for the past few months…  If that is the case, I’m not judging, but I’m glad I caught your attention to tell you what to do tonight in…

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  • Listen to Bright Eyes cover The White Stripes for charity

    When I first heard this, I couldn’t imagine what White Stripe’s song Bright Eyes could possibly pull off a cover of.  Then I read it, and it was the “Ah, of course” moment….  they’re covering the impossibly cute “We Are Gonna Be Friends.” This cover is for a charity album, called Cool For School:…

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  • New Music Releases for Tuesday 10/4/11

    Here’s a list of new releases this week that I think might be worth a bit of your time.  I’ve linked reviews of each, and I tried to chose sites that have some tracks you can check out.  So, read up, listen up, and then get out to your local record store to pick…

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  • Get To Know: Papa

    Did you see Girls perform last month at Mercy Lounge?  If so, I hope you got there early enough to see the opener, Papa.  These guys were awesome.  It was a high energy kind of soul music packed with pop hooks that you could immediately tell was the musical darling of drummer Darren Weiss. …

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  • Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Mercy Lounge, Tonight In Nashville

    Stephen Malkmus has been on the cutting edge of indie music for over 20 years, and is widely regarded as an icon in independent music.  In the late 80s, Malkmus brought the now infamous band Pavement into the musical forefront.  In the 90s, he was putting up solo work as well as fronting Silver…

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  • Listen to Jack White cover Hank Williams

    As part of a tribute album that releases tomorrow, Jack White will be covering the ol’ beer drenched Nashville star along with numerous other stars. You can have a listen to Jack White covering “You Know That I Know” over at Rolling Stone. The album is called The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams, and…

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  • Listen to Youth Lagoon

    So, I mentioned Youth Lagoon’s The Year Of Hibernation in my post of the best releases of last week, and, with the exception of the phenomenal new Wilco Record, this has been on the heaviest rotation around here.  I can’t even really get a feel for one particular tag?  Lo-fi? dream pop? Jonsi singing…

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  • Wilco at the Ryman TONIGHT!

    Man, I’ve been having trouble writing today.  I don’t know if it was a long week, and I am tired… or maybe I just don’t know how to talk about Wilco in a way that everyone and their father (insert dad rock reference here) doesn’t know…. or maybe I am just still mesmerized by…

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