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Battle of the Pop Stars
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Nashville’s own Taylor Swift just debuted her brand new commercial for Diet Coke, one week after Beyonce unveiled her new Pepsi ad. Swift’s spot depicts the country pop singer writing the lyrics for her hit song “22,” with a little help from fans of all walks of life (and from Diet Coke, of course). Beyonce’s ad, on the other hand, showcases…
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[Giveaway] Galactic Set To Funk Up Mercy Lounge on April 17th!
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Be still, my beating heart! Are those my boys? Are those the guys that I funked out to while drinking Abita during my college years? Is that the crew that I took the coeds to see hoping they would understand the metaphor of a name? Yep, that’s them, and I am glad they lasted…
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Five Knives Drops a New Video for “Messin’ With My Mind”
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Nashville’s Five Knives is certainly doing their part to change the national attitude about the Nashville music scene. What we originally dubbed as Nashville’s answer to Sleigh Bells is even more exciting to watch live that the previously compared electro-rock sweethearts. Five Knives live show just kills. I still remember seeing them for the…
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Jay-Z Wants You To Chill About His Trip to Cuba
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As you’ve provably heard, the royal couple of hip hop, Jay-Z and Beyonce, recently took a Cuban vacation. The trip, which was officially sanctioned by the U.S. treasury department, has stirred up some minor controversy and requests for inquiry from Florida politicians over the past week. U.S. tourism to Cuba is officially illegal, but the couple was granted a license to travel…
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Nashville Pride Celebrates 25 Years, Announces 2013 Line-Up
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This year’s Nashville Pride Festival marks the 25th anniversary of the celebration of the LGBTQI community in Music City and it’s safe to say, both the event and the community at large have come a long way in a quarter century! The 2013 festival is set to take place June 15 at Riverfront Park…
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Hump Day Diversion: Accidental Racist
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These days, it seems like you can’t pick any door in the pop culture funhouse that is the internet without discovering someone’s take on the unholy union of Brad Paisley and LL Cool J for their song “Accidental Racist” which dares to daringly, irresponsibly, admirably, or hilariously (depending on who you ask) address the…
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Jimmy Eat World Drops A New Single “I Will Steal You Back”
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Some of you might have seen our call for new contributors last night on THE Facebook. One of the responses we received was from Nashville’s Lauren Strange, and her writing sample submission was too good to pass up. Hopefully, you will be reading more from Lauren in the near future, but, in the meantime,…
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Son Volt is playing tonight at Mercy Lounge
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Would you just look at those youngsters? Just look at ’em. How many people can tell me that Son Volt is better than Wilco? The answer to that question is lots and lots. While I’m a fan of both, I love to engage in the conversation of who did it better after the demise…
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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Fatoumata Diawara
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Bonnaroo Artist | Fatoumata Diawara Bonnaroo History | Newbie Stage & Time: | That Tent | Friday | 3PM We’ve featured several Bonnaroo bands from outside of the U.S. so far, but Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara (sometimes shortened to simply “Fatou”) is the first artist we’ve covered that you’d likely find filed under “world music” in your record store.…
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States Launch Kickstarter Campaign to Fund Sophomore Album
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Last week, we told you a bit about Nashville poppy indie rockers States when we brought you an awesome Justin Timberlake cover video from frontwoman Mindy White. Just to recap, States was formed by former members of Lydia and Copeland. They exploded onto the indie pop scene in late 2010 with their stellar debut EP Line ‘Em…