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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 1.6-1.12
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January’s trucking along, the holiday memories are starting to fade, and, more importantly, concerts are gearing back up. While we look forward to another week of great live music, we finish out a week full of exciting tour announcements, song and video premieres, Bonnaroo news, and more! In case you missed anything, here’s a…
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Ke$ha Drops New Springwater-Set Music Video, Checks Into Rehab
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Nashville’s own Ke$ha has released a new music video, her directorial debut, for “Dirty Love,” a single from the Wild Child’s 2012 sophomore album, Warrior, which, as you may remember, we’ve got quite a soft spot for. Filmed at quintessential local dive the Springwater Supper Club, the video (and radio version of the single) omits one major…
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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 4.22-4.28
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What a week, huh? Not only did we attend some crazy shows, featuring Grammy nominees and the #1 band in America in small and unlikely settings, but we were able to hook several lucky readers up with free tickets. Keep an eye out for more giveaways coming up! If your week flew by as…
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‘Ke$ha: My Beautiful Crazy Life’ Premieres Tonight on MTV
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Last month, a documentary filmmaker named Steven Greenstreet hosted a Reddit AMA, where he talked in-depth about spending nearly two years filming Nashville pop star Ke$ha with essentially unrestricted access. The culmination of that project is a new reality show, called Ke$ha: My Beautiful Crazy Life, which premieres tonight on MTV (at 11PM/10c). The show chronicles the singer in…
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Music on Television | 2.18-2.22
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Once again, we’re bringing you our roundup of the best live music on television for the week. The amount of great performances can be hard to keep track of, so every Monday I’ll recap the best and most interesting of what’s coming up. I’ll be sure to give you one essential pick for each…
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2012’s Guilty Pleasures
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As a site, we’ve brought you lists of our favorite National Albums and Nashville Albums of 2012. Those picks are a pretty balanced representation of the diverse taste of our principal contributors. We’ve also got a Best Nashville Concerts of 2012 list going up shortly, which is a compilation of our favorites (since we go to…
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New Release Spotlight | December 2012, Part 1
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You might have noticed that I’ve taken a few weeks off from the New Release Spotlight feature. December’s honestly a very slow month for releases. Year-end lists are already done, award nominations are announced, and with the decline of physical media sales, the holiday gifting of MP3s just isn’t the same (though I recommend the gift…
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Music on Television | 12.3-12.7
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Here’s another new feature we’re trying out. The amount of great music on television each week can be hard to keep track of, so every Monday I’ll post a roundup of the best and most interesting performances coming up. I’ll be sure to give you one essential pick for each night, as well as…
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Wiz Khalifa and Taylor Gang, Tonight @ Bridgestone Arena
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At only 25, Wiz Khalifa has already had more career accomplishments than many artists twice his age- 4 studio albums, 2 collaborative albums, a dozen mixtapes, a top 10 album, five top 10 singles, associations with legends like Snoop Dogg and members of Wu-Tang Clan, and his own successful record label/collective Taylor Gang. What’s…
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Ke$ha and Wayne Coyne Joined Ben Folds at The Ryman on Monday Night!
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This barely shot across my radar, but I’m glad I found it yesterday. The Flaming Lips’ front man Wayne Coyne and Ke$ha joined Ben Folds on stage at The Ryman on Monday night to perform Conway Twitty’s “You’re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly”. A fan took a pretty good crowd video of that…