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Sturgill Simpson, Phantogram, Spoon, More Join 2017 Forecastle Fest
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Getting a surprise early jump on festival season, Louisville’s long running Forecastle Fest, one of our favorite events year after year, announced its impressive 2017 lineup back in December, with an absolutely stacked bill of LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, Cage the Elephant, Run the Jewels, Conor Oberst, Modern Baseball, Beach Slang, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Farro, and…
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The Cool Kids to Play The Basement East Feb. 18 with Pell & Jung Youth
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It’s been a decade since Chicago hip hop duo The Cool Kids erupted onto the scene, their contemporary meets old school, eclectic, expansive sound primed for the MySpace generation. After gaining fast and widespread buzz with their debut EP The Bake Sale, a slew of mixtapes, and their one and only studio LP, 2011’s When Fish Ride Bicycles, the…
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Premiere New Single “Better Off” | Catch Them April 30 at Exit/In
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Indie rockers Clap Your Hands Say Yeah will release their fifth LP, The Tourist, on Feb. 24. Based on the smattering of first singles, including the recently released “Better Off,” the band appear to be rediscovering the sound that made them a staple of the ’00s indie scene with the release of their seminal self-titled debut more…
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MELD Drops Debut EP ‘H.U.R.T.’ | Catch Her Release Party TONIGHT @ The Basement
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A few months ago, we introduced you to new local singer MELD, and her infectious single “Easy on the Game.” Spearheaded by local songwriter Melanie Dewey, who teamed up with Matt Harris of Nashville livetronica band Zoogma to bring her debut EP H.U.R.T. to life, the album dabbles in pop, R&B, and alt-soul in a way that combines…
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Whissell Celebrates Debut EP ‘Old Souls, Young Bodies’ Tonight at The High Watt
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We’ve had our eye on local pop songstress Whissell since the release of her debut single “Get Free,” and, after a buzzy year, including a slew of television placements for the track, the rising singer just unleashed her debut EP, Old Souls, Young Bodies, on Jan. 27. The six song effort sees the talented artist, real name Lauren…
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Atlanta’s Wrecking Ball to Skip 2017, Return For Third Installment Next Year
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If you read our glowing review of last year’s second annual Wrecking Ball festival in Atlanta, which also served as an early farewell to the original home of long-running, famed club The Masquerade, then you already know how much we’re looking forward to its return. Originally intended to be a 25th anniversary bash for The Masq in…
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Queen + Adam Lambert to Play Bridgestone Arena Aug. 2
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Comparions to the late Freddie Mercury have surrounded Adam Lambert since the moment he first rose to national prominence in season nine of American Idol in 2009, during which remaining Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor also first joined him for a televised performance, sparking the genesis of what would become a more permanent pairing. A few…
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[REMINDER] Don’t Miss Sara Watkins w/ Liz Longley | Sunday, Jan. 29 @ City Winery
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If you didn’t make it to Bonnaroo and missed out on the Watkins Family Hour performance at City Winery last year, you have a chance to redeem yourself. Founding Nickel Creek member, singer-songwriter and talented fiddle player Sara Watson is back in Nashville this weekend for a solo headlining concert you won’t want to miss. She’ll…
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[REMINDER] Catch Chancellor Warhol w/ Zach Taylor, ESCPE, & Billy Cave | Saturday, Jan. 28 @ The High Watt
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One of our absolute favorite local musicians, and one we’ve been covering since our earliest days, multifaceted hip hop artist Chancellor Warhol released his highly-anticiapted new EP, Until the Light Takes Me, last fall, and seems to be diving headfirst into a busy 2017, teasing more new music and multimedia ventures, and celebrating a prominent national commercial…
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Coheed and Cambria to Play ‘Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV’ in Full May 3 at Marathon Music Works
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Though their first two albums earned them an unprecedented indie following, it was inarguably Coheed and Cambria‘s third full-length, the weird, sprawling, proggy, emo-tinged, spaced-out concept album Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, that catapulted the group to the national spotlight, setting the course for them to become festival…