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Get To Know: Battle Avenue
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Music is very cyclical, and you constantly find artists recycling sounds into modern versions of older ideas. That is exactly what I thought of when I first heard Battle Avenue. It’s a growling rock and roll that grabs bits and pieces of the 90’s grunge sound with an updated sound that is full of…
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Get to Know: Luke Roberts
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After a crazy pleasant autumn around here, it has now been raining here for the past three days straight. That can quickly change your mood. It makes it hard to want to leave the house. It makes me want to hole up. Hole up and find a good quiet record to listen to. We…
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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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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…
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Get To Know: Best Friend
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I’ve talked a lot about new Nashville bands, and most tend to have a fairly similar RAAAAWK quality. There is a lot of great punk and rock coming out of the garages of Nashville, and there isn’t anything wrong with that. But, it was a nice change of pace when I recently heard Nashville…
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Get To Know: Papa
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Did you see Girls perform last month at Mercy Lounge? If so, I hope you got there early enough to see the opener, Papa. These guys were awesome. It was a high energy kind of soul music packed with pop hooks that you could immediately tell was the musical darling of drummer Darren Weiss. …
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Get to know: The Coasts
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I don’t know why it has taken me so long to write this “Get to Know” post. The new album by The Coasts has been in heavy rotation over here. I was sent a link to one of The Coasts songs, and, as soon as I finished listening to that song, I bought the…
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Band of Horses’ Tyler Ramsey’s Solo Work
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It’s a gray, rainy day here in Nashville, and I celebrated the college football kickoff a little too much yesterday. So, it’s a perfect day to mellow out to some Tyler Ramsey. You probably already know Tyler as the guitarist for Band of Horses, but you may not have heard his solo work. If…