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If you like to bob and pogo a bit while listening to upbeat music, The High Watt is basically turning into a bounce castle tonight. Alt-rock band Cardboard Kids are celebrating their new album release for Echo Boomer. They’re bringing along plenty of melodically talented friends, including Golden Youth, Lenachka, and Poema. This one has the…
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Sharon Van Etten is hard at work prepping the follow-up to 2010’s Tramp. To pick up steam for the May 27th release of the new LP, entitled Are We There, Van Etten released a video for the gorgeous crooner “Every Time The Sun Comes Up.” In the video, an aging horror TV host struggles with a case…
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There’s not enough secrecy and surprise anymore. When everyone knows Batman is Bruce Wayne and orders off the “secret” menu at Starbucks, I think we’re doing something wrong as a society. Fortunately, Closeup.FM and Cause a Scene recognize that. They’re sponsoring a show with k.s. Rhoads, Young Summer, Devan DuBois, and Emily Hackett at…
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24HR Records is a Nashville-based YouTube series that hand picks a team of musicians, locks them in a studio, and asks them to write and record three complete songs in twenty-four hours. All the artists selected have never met until they walk in the door. Harrison Hudson, Juliana Daily, and Timon Lance (Daniel Ellsworth…
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Last time we heard from Yip Deceiver, they dropped a slow-motion, gore-filled trip-fest of a video. Tonight, they’re bringing more funky synth sounds to The High Watt than hyphens in that last sentence. And for only $8!
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Liza Anne. Photo by Cami Rose. Liza Anne with Sam Pinkerton and Aliza Carter Band The High Watt, Nashville, TN February 21, 2014 Review by Wes Davenport Photos by Cami Rose Much has been made of Nashville’s creative community lately. From GQ to USA Today, the press raves about our artists, food, and communities.…
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Well, folks, JT Daly as done it again. The Paper Route frontman has taken the reins on a new project called JT Daly & The Blood Orchestra. His first official release under that title, called “The Blackest Bird”, dropped today. Written and composed entirely by JT himself, the single is an instrumental piece that is…
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Even if you’re not into adult-alternative roots/jam-rock, you have to respect bands like Carbon Leaf. Though the genre experienced a renaissance in the ’90s with the rise of names like Blues Traveler and DMB, it remains perhaps the most “blue-collar” domain of popular music. Blue-collar not necessarily in terms of the genre’s audience, but…
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We East Nashvillians begin the process of dragging out the boxes of flip-flops and beach chairs during the first week of June. Living in old houses, it’s very difficult to find storage space. Part of the celebration includes dusting off skeletons of last year’s brown recluse spiders–while discovering a few live ones. School is…
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This entry will launch a new series of blog entries dedicated to the musical people and places of my home-‘hood, East Nashville. Stay tuned. There will be interviews, stories, legends, rumors, and more! Tia If you have read my last artist feature about the Blackfoot Gypsies, you KNOW how much I love gypsies. I think the…