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SHOW REMINDER: Arcade Fire w/ Kid Koala & tUnE-yArDs | TONIGHT @ Bridgestone Arena!
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Months of anticipation have finally come to an end! Since first announcing Arcade Fire‘s Bridgestone Arena performance (set to take place TONIGHT) all the way back in November, we’ve been counting down the days until its arrival. The indie rock superstars, whose last Music City stop took place way back in 2010 at The Ryman, will be joined…
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Watch Brittany from Alabama Shakes Perform with My Morning Jacket on ‘Fallon’
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Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes joined My Morning Jacket, Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs, the Antibalas horns, and The Roots to perform last week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The supergroup played “Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am,” a Fela Kuti cover which Howard, MMJ, and Garbus also recently contributed to Red Hot + Fela, a benefit compilation album for…
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Bonnaroo 2012 Rundown and Photos
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It was a wild 48 hours at Bonnaroo for some of the folks over here, and I wanted to share a little of our totally ADD experience and photos with you guys. What a party! Let me just give you an idea of how hectic this was… Tune-Yards, Katie Herzig, Sharon Jones & The…
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tUnE-yArDs Releases Video for “My Country”
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It’s a day of “country” news here at “No Country”. We talked earlier about that new Diamond Rugs track “Country Mile”, and now we give you the new Tune-Yards video for “My Country”. To make the video, Merrill and Co. enlisted the help of the San Francisco Rock Project which is a nonprofit music…
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First News and Tracks of 2012
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I have 63 tabs open in 3 different browsers, and my computer… is… officially… crawling. So, here’s another installment of news and notes. Actually, right before I hit publish, I decided that I should change the name to News and Tracks. What’s that? You don’t like that title? Well, opinionated one, you are free…
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New & Notes for Nashville – December edition
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Once again, I can’t even open a webpage on my computer because I have so many tabs open. So, it’s time for me to clean off the desk. Here’s what I’m throwing into the files today. I have enough to do a Nashville edition and a not-so-Nashville edition. I’ll break those into two for…
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tUnE-yArDs, Exit/In, Friday
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tUnE-yArDs is playing at Exit/In on Friday night, and I am going to let you know why I think you should go see it. That is also the last time that I am going to spell the name of Tune-Yards with it’s (technically corrrect) “RaNsOm NoTe” caps. Why? Because it is like me trying…
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tUnE-yArDs @ Exit/in on 9/30
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We talked about Merrill Garbus’ ransom note spelled musical project tUnE-yArDs back when we were talking about Thao and Mirah. Well, multi-instrumentalist Merrill is taking her show on the road in support of her second record, w h o k i l l, and she will be rolling through Nashville with a stop at…
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Thao & Mirah & tUnE-yArDs
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Thao (last name: Nguyen, but you will rarely hear the full name…. sort of like a Brazilian footballer) is best known for her work with her band, The Get Down, Stay Down. The hyper-active guitarist and lead singer is originally from Falls Creek, VA, but is currently living and working out of San Francisco,…