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Royal Canoe. Photo by Matt Cairns. Bombay Bicycle Club, Royal Canoe. Exit/In, Nashville, TN Wednesday, May 14th, 2014 Review and photos by Matt Cairns Last Wednesday may have been pretty wet, but when two internationally known bands like Bombay Bicycle Club and Royal Canoe are in town, standing in line in the rain is…
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Two American icons are performing right here in Nashville tonight. No, we’re not talking about one of those nightly Grand Ole Opry showcases, we’re talking about a night under the stars at The Woods at Fontanel with Willie Nelson & Family and Alison Krauss & Union Station! This is one of those nights you will remember forever, and getting…
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October is a long time off to plan to see a show, but this one is worth getting excited about ahead of your fun filled summer. The War On Drugs is the project of Philadelphia based songwriter Adam Granduciel, and, backed with some stellar talent (including Kurt Vile), the music wavers through varying rock genres.…
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Bonnaroo Artist | The Griswolds Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time | Sunday | TBA | 6PM Just like last year and the year before, we’re making it our mission to help you get acquainted with as many bands as we can from Bonnaroo‘s impressive 2014 lineup. In addition to main stage acts, we also want to be…
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Pulling a move out of the Steven Tyler playbook, Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl played an unannounced show for an unsuspecting crowd of less than 100 people last night at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. While no stranger to surprise performances, this one appears to have been Grohl’s most intimate yet, and featured nine…
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Bands like Deer Tick got us to pay attention to the newest crop of “under the radar” bands many years ago now. Of course, Deer Tick is no longer under the radar, and, with the plethora of media outlets and publicists today, we often find ourselves looking under rocks, brush piles, and automobiles for…
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If you have never seen Rodrigo y Gabriela, you should amend that immediately. The rhythmic up-tempo guitar virtuosos perform what is best described as a blend of latin based instrumental rock music that is heavily influenced by the band’s love of heavy metal. However, any of you that have seen the duo perform know…
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Those of you that have journeyed up I-65 into our northern neighbor know that the area around Louisville is famous for their bourbon. Forecastle Festival embraces that culture with an onsite “Bourbon Lodge” that features some of the areas finest corn-derived spirits. At last year’s festival, we were excited to be greeted upon one visit to…
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We’ve already gone through and told you all about each of our favorite acts for every day of this year’s Shaky Knees Music Festival in downtown Atlanta next weekend (May 9 -11), but being a Nashville based blog, we thought it might be nice to talk about our favorite local acts. While we tried to highlight…
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It’s been a crazy few weeks for The Black Keys! First, the Nashville (via Ohio) blues rockers announced their eighth full-length album, Turn Blue, due out May 13 on Nonesuch Records, and debuted its lead single, “Fever.” Next, they dropped title track “Turn Blue,” followed by an official video for “Fever.” Now, we have two more new items…