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Show Preview: Ponderosa with Lindi Ortega at The High Watt
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Ponderosa? That’s fun to say! Back in high school, my band wrote a four part acapella called Ponderosa after getting lost on the road and being forced to stop at a Ponderosa Steakhouse. I remember wondering why musicians, with their affinity for gratifying, lyrical words, had not already championed such an awesome name –…
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[Hump Day Diversions] Pete & Pete
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Holy Petunia, Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete was awesome, wasn’t it? What started as a series of 60 second shorts became one of the weirdest and most wonderful not-quite-for-kids-but-it’s-for-kids shows in all of ever time. One of the things that made Big Pete and Little Pete so much fun to adventure with…
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New Wave of Bonnaroo Bands Announced! [UPDATED]
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UPDATE: We caught the lineup change in the middle of Bonnaroo’s update, so when we announced this morning, we only had the club stage bands. We’ve updated to include a handful of main stage additions as well. Good news for Bonnaroo fans, but bad news for our Bonnaroo Band of the Day feature (which…
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[Show Review] Quiet Company @ The 5 Spot | 4.18.13
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I had the good fortune to check out Quiet Company with Hanzelle and The Winter Sounds at The 5 Spot last week with a good friend who knows a lot more about QC than I do and so I share with you this special guest post by long-time Quiet Company fan and the all…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Purity Ring
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Bonnaroo Artist | Purity Ring Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time: | The Other Tent | Thursday | 9:15PM By the time Canadian duo Purity Ring released their debut album, Shrines, last summer, they had already amassed a mountain of hype that would intimidate most bands. The young group, consisting of vocalist Megan James and producer/arranger Corin Roddick, not…
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Natural Blonde Debuts Music Video Shot Entirely on Vine
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Nashville’s Natural Blonde has just released their first music video, for the track “30th Street,” and it was made in a pretty unique way. The video, filmed last week in Boston, is shot entirely using the 6-second social video app Vine. According the band, it started as “an in the moment experiment… that turned…
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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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Vietnam w/ Kings Of The F**king Sea | The Stone Fox | Tonight In Nashville
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It was serendipity that I’ve seen Vietnam already, and it’s dumb luck that I remember seeing Vietnam at all. Some folks at Mexican Summer sent over the New York band’s 2013 release An A.merican D.ream, so I was already familiar with the trippy nocturnal bluesy rock sound that would have Colonel Kurtz thinking twice…
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[Video] The Kingston Springs Debut “Weight Of This World”
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We are pals and fans alike of The Kingston Springs. Their new self-titled debut has played over here so much that the 1’s and 0’s of the digital download sound like a turn of the century vinyl now. If you haven’t had a listen to that record yet, then you don’t know about some…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Swans
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Bonnaroo Artist | Swans Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time: | This Tent | Sunday | 5PM Swans‘ frontman/visionary Michael Gira said of the band’s 2010 reformation: “This is not a reunion. It’s not some dumb-ass nostalgia act. It is not repeating the past… I needed a way to move forward, in a new direction, and it…