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Tonight in Nashville – White Denim
We posted a while back about White Denim’s new album, D, which released on May 24th. Well, tonight’s your night to see them at The Basement at 9pm. Tickets are only $8 and available at the door. Get out and see live music!
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Battles playing Exit/In on 10/24
Does everyone know Battles? They are an experimental, math rock outfit out of New York. They came onto the scene in 2007, and have been steadily blowing people away ever since. They have heavy roots in experimental music with guitarist Ian Williams (formerly of math rock wizards Don Caballero), bassist Dave Konopka (formerly of…
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Thao & Mirah tonight at Mercy Lounge
Tonight in Nashville….. Don’t miss Thao & Mirah performing at Mercy Lounge at 8pm. I wrote up a post about them a little while back that you can check out here, and Brooklyn Vegan posted a bunch of photos and a video from a recent show in Brooklyn, NY . You can still get…
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The Final Bonnaroo Preview – My Best of the Rest
Bonnaroo is right around the corner, and I didn’t have time to talk about everyone that I wanted. So, I will give you a “best of what’s left” list of my picks for this year’s fest. I started my Preview Series from the bottom of the Bonnaroo lineup, so please don’t think that these…
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Chancellor Warhol – Bonnaroo Preview
A winner of the “Road to Bonnaroo” was Nashville’s own Chancellor Warhol. His unique blending of hip hop with electo-pop is something that is immediately catchy. It’s reminiscent of so much that we hear in mainstream music, but it is mixed up, original, and refreshing. It will be really interesting to see what happens to Mr.…
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Best Coast – Bonnaroo Preview
Bethany Cosentino’s Best Coast (along with multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno, and former Vivian Girls drummer Ali Koehler) has had a meteoric rise through the indie conscious for the past couple of years. Her Crazy For You album (via Mexican Summer) has brought significant critical acclaim from Spin, UK’s Guardian, and Pitchfork granted her the 39th spot in their…
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Deerhunter live – Bonnaroo Preview?
Ok, this isn’t really in the Bonnaroo Preview series that we have been doing, but, in the days leading up to Bonnaroo how could a little extra music hurt. Deerhunter is the live show tour-de-force brainchild of indie rock mastermind Bradford Cox. They are playing Bonnaroo on Thursday (6/9) from 11:30 pm to 12:45…
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Karen Elson – Bonnaroo Preview
I am not going to spend a ton of time talking about the first lady of Nashville’s new generation of music. Yes, Karen Elson is the wife of Jack White. Yes, she is a supermodel. Yes, she was a curator of her Nashville fashion boutique for a while. Yes, she is a product of…
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Wavves – Bonnaroo Preview
San Diego’s Nathan Williams started his brand of lo-fi, indie punk behind his parents house, and it was there that Wavves was born. Wavves released (confusingly) self-titled albums in both 2008 and 2009. These albums received pretty good critical acclaim, and started raising the stakes for Wavves. But, what goes up… must come down,…