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Get to know: Beaten Awake
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I just found a new band thanks to a tweet from The Black Key’s drummer, Patrick Carney. Beaten Awake is an Ohio band who was coming up around the same time and place as Ohio-to-Nashville superstars The Black Keys. It’s not hard to imagine that these guys spent some time listening to records together,…
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New Best Coast song
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Bethany of Best Coast just released a new song from her someday to be released second LP as a thank you to her 50,000th follower on Twitter. I guess if I want more Twitter followers, I should start writing catchy pop songs…. ah, I digress. Listen to the new track “How They Want Me…
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Dear Soundland, Please invite GIVERS!, kthnxbye
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Dear Soundland, I just had an idea! Why don’t you invite GIVERS to your festival? I saw them at Bonnaroo, and they were awesome! They are such an upcoming, fun band, and provide the perfect sounds for a summertime festival like yours! Have you heard their happy, little debut album In Light? It’s really…
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WU LYF
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Why can’t I stop listening to this WU LYF album? WU LYF (an acronym for “World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation”….. well, that sure clears it up) is a post-rocky sort of band out of Manchester, England. They are an emerging British buzz band who interacts (by design) very little with the press. They have…
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The Glitch Mob covers The White Stripes
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Did you see The Glitch Mob roll through Nashville’s Exit/In a couple of weeks ago? Maybe, if you were lucky enough to get tickets to the sold out show. Have you seen The White Stripes lately? No, because they aren’t around anymore (*sob*). Well, thanks to the magic of computers and the internet, you…
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Washed Out covers Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game
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Rising chillwave star Washed Out (aka Ernest Greene) is following up the release of his much hyped debut LP, Within and Without, with a cover of Chris Isaak’s sultry classic “Wicked Game”. The Sub Pop Records signee got his start in rural Georgia recording songs in his bedroom, which is exactly where his songs…
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Generationals live on KEXP
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Remember when I went off about The Generationals show at The Basement? When they opened for rising superstars Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., and The Generationals actually were the highlight of the night. They are still touring the country along with another rising star Gardens & Villas, and, on Wednesday, they were in Seattle for…
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Live Tom Waits album
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The music blog, Aquarium Drunkard, has put up a link to download a live Tom Waits album Never Talk To Strangers. Tom Waits is hands down one of my favorite artists of all time. I once learned that he was playing in Radio City Music Hall for a benefit concert for New Orleans after…
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Mona’s new Daytrotter session
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Do you know about Nashville’s own Mona? Well, if the predictions are correct, you are going to know about them very soon. Mona is blowing up in the UK right now. They were long listed in the BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll (a UK poll of bands that are about to get huge). Past…
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The Black Keys finish recording new album
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The Black Keys have finished recording a new album according to Spin Magazine. This will be the duo’s seventh full length, third album produced by Danger Mouse, and the first to be fully recorded in Auerbach’s new Nashville recording studio. Though temper your expectations for an Attack & Release/Brothers part III. Auerbach says the…