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After last week’s Road to Roo 2017 City Finals, the month-long, bracket-style battle of the bands competition comes to a close with the State Finals tonight, April 5 at Acme Feed & Seed. Whittled down from an initial 16 local competitors, just one band from Nashville, Creature Comfort, remain standing, and they’ll compete against Memphis winners Airside (who went through a…
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After last week’s second Road to Roo 2017 semifinal round, the bracket-style battle of the bands competition inches closer to a close with the City Finals tonight, March 28 at The Basement East. Whittled down from an initial 16 competitors, just four bands remain, after two preliminary and two semifinal rounds, and those four will play longer sets…
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After last week’s first Road to Roo 2017 semifinal round, the bracket-style battle of the bands contest sees the second round of semifinalists compete tonight, March 23 at 3rd & Lindsley, before heading into the finals on Tuesday. Of the eight remaining bands from the initial 16, four were chosen at random to compete last week and tonight, and tonight’s…
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After last week’s second Road to Roo 2017 preliminary round, the bracket-style battle of the bands contest enters the semifinals tonight, March 14 with a first round at The Basement East (and concludes with the second half of the semifinals March 23 at 3rd & Lindsley). Of the eight remaining bands from the initial 16, four were chosen…
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We went over this last year, but former Battle of the Bands-style competition series the “Road to Bonnaroo,” in which three Mercy Lounge showcases resulted in three local bands earning a coveted Bonnaroo spot, came to a close after its 2015 season. However, last year, the similarly-named but very differently structured Road to Roo, hosted by…
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After weeks of intense musical competition in this year’s Road to Roo (a new state-wide event, different from the “Road to Bonnaroo” of years past, where three local bands won across three months), a champion has been crowned! Local reggae rock sensations Roots of A Rebellion defeated Knoxville based Josiah & The Greater Good last night…
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Finally, the moment of truth is at hand friends, Road To Roo comes to a close tonight at Mercy Lounge, and one coveted spot to perform at Bonnaroo 2016 will be filled. Over the past few weeks there have been battle of the bands style events all over town, with winners being chosen via a combination of…
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This year’s Road to Roo competition, different from the similar “Road to Bonnaroo” competition of years past, finished its Nashville finals phase at 3rd and Lindsley last night. Roots Of A Rebellion beat out the competition and have advanced to the state finals, set take place at Mercy Lounge on April 4. During this final round, they will be pit against the Knoxville-based finalist, who will…
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This year’s Road to Roo competition, different from the similar “Road to Bonnaroo” competition of years past, is quickly drawing to a close. Over the past few weeks, a combination of fan and judge voting has dwindled down the initial 16 bands selected down to four Nashville finalists. OJR, Kid Freud, Jess Nolan and Roots of a…
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This year’s Road to Roo competition, different from the similar “Road to Bonnaroo” competition of years past, finished its Nashville semi-finals phase at The Basement East last night. Daphne & the Mystery Machines and The Cold Stares brought their A-games, but, after the dust settled, Jess Nolan and Roots of a Rebellion have advanced to the Nashville finals,…