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New Music Releases – 11/22/11
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Man, Black Friday must be coming up really soon. I never really thought about it before, but it seems that everyone throws out all their reissues, vinyls, and live collections for the biggest holiday shopping weekend of the year. That being said, there isn’t too much buried in the new release lists this week. …
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News and Notes 11/21/11
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It’s Thanksgiving week, and today I am giving thanks that I can restart my computer. Here are some of the dozens of tabs I have open right now. Live and Reel Presents Andrew Combs Live and Reel has released their third installment of their video recording sessions. This month includes country crooner Andrew Combs. …
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Get to Know: The Loose Hinges
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Nashville’s The Loose Hinges define an attitude. It’s as much an analogy for their “off the cuff” ideas, as it is for their incredibly diverse and playful music. This duo that can (I guess) best be described as pop has wild forays into electronica, soul, country, and folk. The one thing that is really…
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Nashville Represents in Initial South By Southwest Band Listings!
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The all-things-up-and-coming music orgy that is South By Southwest in Austin, TX published their first two listings of performers recently (and I just ran into them today). You can take a look at the first and second listing for yourself, but I wanted to give a special shout out to so-far selected Nashville acts…
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New Releases – 11/15/11
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Here we go again for another run through of this week’s notable NEW releases. As you know, I’m not dealing with reissues, vinyls, etc…. We are talking about NEW releases. Below is a list of music that might be worth some of your time. I’ve done my best to find reviews with tracks you…
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News and Notes – 11/14/11
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Chugging along again and needing a reboot. Here’s the latest edition of news and notes. The Horrors cover Bowie I was probably 15 when my uncle gave me a copy of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars. It was a hallmark in my appreciation of music. …
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Carl Broemel’s Daytrotter session
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The Daytrotter updates just keep coming this week. While the little studio (known as the “Horseshack”) in Rock Island, Il keeps pumping out great sessions by more up and coming artists than you can keep up with, there was also an announcement that they were going to have to start charging folks a couple…
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Get To Know: Gun Lake
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This has been in my email inbox for months. I first heard Gun Lake (aka Mark Fain) on Turntable several months ago, and met him right there in that little land of avatars. Luckily, I wowed him with this video clip, and from there a mutual appreciation was born. Actually, I don’t know how…