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Catch State Champs w/ Hit The Lights, Tiny Moving Parts, Let It Happen & Northbound | TONIGHT @ Rocketown!
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It’s summer, school is out, and life is good. What better way to celebrate the season than with the pop punk tour of the summer? The Shot Boys of Summer Tour is hitting Rocketown’s White Room tonight, July 30. Locally-loved New Yorkers State Champs are headlining the tour, and just released a hot new single from their sophomore full-length due…
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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 12.2-12.8
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Last week was an exciting week for music news. We covered lots of new show announcements – including our very own No Country Presents: Christmas Caroling Show – and even covered our annual Bonnaroo Rumors. In case you missed anything, here’s a recap of everything we covered last week on the site: NEWS: Rolling Stone announced…
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No Country in a Nutshell: The Weekly Recap | 1.21-1.27
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It’s been another great week for the site. We can’t thank you guys enough for visiting and reading and supporting everything that we work so hard on! We’ve got plenty of great show and album coverage coming up this week, tons of new Bonnaroo information, and an announcement that we can’t wait to make!…
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Conflict Erupts at Rocketown Following Statements on Stage (UPDATED with New Information)
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UPDATE: A previous version of this story was entitled “Band Assaulted at Rocketown for Dedicating a Song to a Gay Friend.” We’ve changed the title to better reflect the situation as we’ve gathered new information. The original title and article are still representative of the events that transpired, as best we understood them when we received reports Saturday night, but new…
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Wes Breedwell, Employee Fired from Rocketown, Issues a Statement
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Wes Breedwell, the employee fired from Nashville venue Rocketown on Monday for his social media activity along with wearing a shirt for the band Hostage Calm bearing the message “I Support Same-Sex Marriage” has finally spoken out for the first time since the incident. Prior to this evening, Wes’s only acknowledgment of the event came in…
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Multiple National Artists CANCEL Their Upcoming Tour Dates at Rocketown (UPDATED)
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Prominent up and coming pop punk groups The Story So Far and Man Overboard had scheduled a Nashville date at Rocketown as part of their upcoming “Suppy Nation” national tour. In light of yesterday’s firing controversy involving an employee named Wes Breedwell, the bands have pulled their show from the venue. Here’s the announcement, as posted on The Story…
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Rocketown Fires Employee for Promoting Equality
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We wanted to present this story as objectively as possible. We’re going by the facts we could gather, and from what we learned from the sources available. We reached out to both Wes Breedwell and Rocketown, and, as of publishing, have not received a statement from either party. Here are the facts: Rocketown is a non-profit,…