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[Hump Day Diversion] Call The Doctor
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What’s up, nerds?! This Diversion’s for you! If you happen to be the Time-Lord-loving, Gallifreyan-writing, sonic-screwdriver-toting type, you’re no doubt going to love this week’s special interruption in our regularly scheduled music news and reviews. So what are we up to this week? We’ll give you a hint: it’s bigger on the inside –…
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[Hump Day Diversion] Dude Looks Like A Lady
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Y’all remember last week when we alerted you to the awesome that is Jenny Lewis‘s new video for “One Of The Guys” (right here) featuring some of the best drag seen outside of RuPaul’s race?. Well, this week we’ve found ourselves a little bit inspired by all this gender-bending and for today’s Hump Day,…
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Bleachers to Play Cannery Ballroom Oct. 29 with Wild Cub
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Bleachers, the new solo project from fun. (and formerly Steel Train) guitarist Jack Antonoff, have just released their debut album, Strange Desire, and, already, it’s one of our favorite records of 2014. Infectiously catchy and stadium-primed, Bleachers lets Antonoff’s guitar-laden pop tendencies run wild, landing in a territory that is distantly different from the band…
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Beck ‘Song Reader’ All-Star Compilation Announced Due Out July 29th; Includes Forecastle Headliners Jack White and Beck!
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It’s been over a year and a half since Beck released his sheet music album Song Reader, and it has been over a year since we had our two-year anniversary party featuring a bunch of Nashville artists arranging and performing these songs. Big news today though, with Warby Parker announcing an all star compilation…
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[Hump Day Diversion] The Royal Treatment
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We love covers here at No Country — Diversions, especially. From our birthday celebration focus on Beck’s Song Reader (relive the magic) to our extensive coverage of every imaginable iteration of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (recall it), we can’t resist the opportunity to revel in fresh approach on tried and true tunes. And thusly, we…
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[Hump Day Diversion] Sweet Guzheng O’ Mine
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There have been some pretty respectable covers of the G-n-R classic, “Sweet Child O’ Mine” throughout the years. Remember that jam? One of the most iconic opening riffs in rock, ever! We divert your hump day with some of the more interesting renditions.
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Watch Tegan and Sara Guest-Perform with Taylor Swift in LA | Catch Them Separately Next Month in Nashville
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Nashville country pop princess Taylor Swift recently invited Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara to perform their hit “Closer” with her at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Surprise guests are not an unusual occurrence at T-Swift concerts, but this one is especially of note because both artists, albeit separately, are coming to Nashville in about…
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TWiN | This Weekend In Nashville | 2/15 – 2/17
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Here we go again. It’s another weekend in Nashville, and your hard working asses need to get moving to celebrate. If you are a regular follower of this rag, you’d find it hard to think we would even know that anything other than East Nashville Underground is going on over at The East Room this…
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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 2.4-2.10
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As we begin a new week, here’s a recap of everything we covered last week on the site, in case you missed anything: ANNOUNCEMENT: We teamed up with Third Shift Lager and some talented friends to bring you a 10-band, 2 stage, FREE SXSW Send Off Show 3/2! NEWS: Grammy-winning artists fun. announced yet…
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fun. Announce Another Nashville Show | Grab Your Tickets NOW!
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Not one of the lucky few (thousand) who grabbed a ticket to fun.‘s upcoming Ryman Auditorium show next week before it sold out? Well, it’s your lucky day because the “We Are Young” trio have already announced their NEXT tour and Nashville once again made the cut! This time, the group will be performing…