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I love Christmastime. The cheer, the spirit of giving, the decorations, the friends and family. I also love Christmas music, but I feel like there’s a big disparity in quality between old and new Christmas tunes. Let’s be real, most of the Christmas records that get released today (and even throughout the past couple of decades, honestly) are…
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I love that I live in a city where we have initiatives like Nashville Sunday Night and Musician’s Corner and the marriage of these two entities is a holy union indeed. Lightning 100’s weekly live radio broadcast helped me to feel like a part of the music scene back when I wasn’t even old…
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If you like live music, then you obviously like free live music too. Lightning 100 had quite a bit of news yesterday, and more of that to come in a follow up post. But, the highlight was their stellar Live On The Green lineup announcement. We have a couple of more spots to fill,…
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The fine folks we know as Diarrhea Planet are giving away their set from last weekend’s Diarrhea Planet. You can grab it at their Facebook page, or I’ve attached the link here for you. Enjoy what Austin is enjoying this weekend…. Live music!!!
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How did one of my favorite bands slip onto a calendar without me knowing. I scour calendars, blogs, websites, and twitter all day long looking for bands to get excited about, and somehow I missed this announcement?!? Blitzen Trapper is coheadlining with Dawes and opener The Smoke Fairies at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge on October…
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The good folks over at We Own This Town have released a mixtape (volume 46) of Nashville bands that are worth listening to right now. You can download it for free, so head over to their webpage to check it out. Nice job, guys! A listing of the bands, tracks, album, and upcoming shows…
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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,…