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Celebrating the release of their debut full-length, landmark, Minnesota indie popsters Hippo Campus are set to play The Basement East tonight, March 22 with Miami’s Magic City Hippies and local favorites ELEL. Though they’ve played Nashville twice the last two years in a row, more often as a supporting act, for great bands like The Mowgli’s, JR JR, and Saint Motel, this marks Hippo Campus’s biggest Music…
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After a bit of a break from music throughout the ’00s, eccentric, eclectic British glam rock icon Adam Ant mounted a comeback a few years ago, complete with the release of his sixth solo album and first in almost two decades, Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner’s Daughter, in 2013. Since then,…
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We’ve been huge fans of Waxahatchee, the musical vehicle of skilled songwriter and Alabama native turned Brooklynite turned Philadelphian Katie Crutchfield, since her lo-fi 2012 debut American Weekend, and delighted in watching her stature rise and sound evolve with 2013’s buzzy Cerulean Salt, as well as her latest, 2015’s Ivy Tripp. With a punk and folk-tinged indie sound, and…
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Against Me! w/ Mobina Galore, Typesetter The Hi-Tone Cafe; Memphis, TN March 9, 2017 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. Being the giant fans of punk outfit Against Me! that we are, we recently decided on a whim to sneak over to Memphis, to catch the group at The Hi-Tone Cafe, for an intimate affair they…
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Nashville baroque pop trio The Mute Group showed off their A/V chops with the video for debut single “Brainplate in Eb.” Now, for their latest, the band have teamed up with animator Jonathan Richter to pair the track “AEIOU” with a fascinating 3D animated video. The release went live today at at 5:28 a.m., coinciding…
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Best known for founding and co-fronting seminal Philadelphia punk group The Dead Milkmen, eclectic punk pioneer Joe Jack Talcum has been even more prolific in his solo work over the last several decades, largely opting to self-record and self-release tapes throughout the ’80s and ’90s, while also taking part in other projects like The Low Budgets. After…
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Before New Nashville was all the rage, and many, many years before our little site was even an idea, a power pop group with retro flair called Jetpack had an impressive early run, earning comparisons to fellow locals The Features (and undoubtedly influencing bands that formed soon after, like The Pink Spiders), meshing ’60s pop and rock…
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and that means just about every bar in town will have something going on to entice you to spend your night boozing away. If you need more than just Guinness to get you going though, it’s also another great weekend for live music- whether you’re looking for big shows…
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Another local band who’ve found a fast growing national audience, Judah & The Lion seem to be an ultra hot property as of late. In addition to regular spins of their hit single “Take It All Back” on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation, a two month run touring with one of the biggest rock bands in…
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Local southern blues rockers, and longtime friends of the blog, Blackfoot Gypsies recently released the debut single to their upcoming third full-length To The Top. “Potatoes and Whiskey” features more of the Nashville twang than many of their blues fried tracks in the past, and will certainly be a moment to take your breath during their…