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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 4.22-4.28
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What a week, huh? Not only did we attend some crazy shows, featuring Grammy nominees and the #1 band in America in small and unlikely settings, but we were able to hook several lucky readers up with free tickets. Keep an eye out for more giveaways coming up! If your week flew by as…
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Kickstarter of the Week: I BELIEVE IN US
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It’s clear that crowd funding is the future. In recent months and weeks, we’ve told you about several great Kickstarters from local artists. Some of those, like States and Honey Locust, are still running, and could still use your help. Crowd funding is a great way to help independent artists, creators, and dreamers make the most…
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New Wave of Bonnaroo Bands Announced! [UPDATED]
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UPDATE: We caught the lineup change in the middle of Bonnaroo’s update, so when we announced this morning, we only had the club stage bands. We’ve updated to include a handful of main stage additions as well. Good news for Bonnaroo fans, but bad news for our Bonnaroo Band of the Day feature (which…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Purity Ring
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Bonnaroo Artist | Purity Ring Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time: | The Other Tent | Thursday | 9:15PM By the time Canadian duo Purity Ring released their debut album, Shrines, last summer, they had already amassed a mountain of hype that would intimidate most bands. The young group, consisting of vocalist Megan James and producer/arranger Corin Roddick, not…
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Natural Blonde Debuts Music Video Shot Entirely on Vine
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Nashville’s Natural Blonde has just released their first music video, for the track “30th Street,” and it was made in a pretty unique way. The video, filmed last week in Boston, is shot entirely using the 6-second social video app Vine. According the band, it started as “an in the moment experiment… that turned…
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‘Ke$ha: My Beautiful Crazy Life’ Premieres Tonight on MTV
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Last month, a documentary filmmaker named Steven Greenstreet hosted a Reddit AMA, where he talked in-depth about spending nearly two years filming Nashville pop star Ke$ha with essentially unrestricted access. The culmination of that project is a new reality show, called Ke$ha: My Beautiful Crazy Life, which premieres tonight on MTV (at 11PM/10c). The show chronicles the singer in…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Swans
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Bonnaroo Artist | Swans Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time: | This Tent | Sunday | 5PM Swans‘ frontman/visionary Michael Gira said of the band’s 2010 reformation: “This is not a reunion. It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia act. It is not repeating the past… I needed a way to move forward, in a new direction, and it…
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Music on Television | 4.22-4.26
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As you may have noticed, this feature was absent from the site last week. Many late night talk shows took the week off, so we followed suit. Two weeks ago, we revamped the format just a bit. We hope it’s been more streamlined and accessible! Each band name still links to Spotify for a…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls
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Bonnaroo Artist | Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls Bonnaroo History | 2010 Stage & Time: | That Tent | Saturday | 3:30PM Originally just billed as Frank Turner, it’s unclear why Bonnaroo switched the listing to Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls on its lineup. But, in case there was any doubt, the singer will most definitely be bringing his…
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Paramore’s Weekend Home
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In case you haven’t heard, local pop rockers Paramore just landed their first #1 album; a self-titled release, and their first since 2009. It also marks the band’s first record since the departure of founding members Josh and Zac Farro. The band celebrated Paramore and its monumental achievement at the most fitting place they could think…