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Bonnaroo, Get To Know Bands, Random, Shows, Song Releases March 25, 2013 0 Comments
Posted by: Philip Obenschain

Is it just me, or is March flying by? It’s officially spring, and that means tour season is kicking into high gear. Last week brought some incredible shows to Nashville, and we can’t wait to bring you even more exciting coverage in the coming weeks!

In case you missed anything, here’s the rundown of everything we covered last week on the site:

FEATURE: This Weekend in Nashville: We highlighted our picks for the best weekend shows and events around town.
FEATURE: Music on Television: We brought you our picks for the best artists performing on television.
SXSW: We rounded up all of the SXSW press shout outs for Nashville artists.
SXSW: We recapped our adventures at this year’s SXSW.
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: Action Bronson
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: Clockwork
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: Twenty One Pilots
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: Reptar
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: DIIV
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: Milo Greene
BONNAROO: Band of the Day: Lord Huron
SHOW: Dawes played a not-so-secret show and Lightning 100 recorded it.
SHOW: White Mystery performed at Exit/In and The Soil & The Sun performed at Mercy Lounge.
SHOW: Bad Religion performed their first ever Nashville show at War Memorial Auditorium.
SHOW: We spotlighted eight great Monday night shows. Thanks SXSW!
RELEASE: Paramore premiered a new single and landed several magazine covers.
RELEASE: Vampire Weekend premiered TWO new songs from their upcoming album.
STREAM: Alt-J recently stopped by Lightning 100 to record an in-studio session.
STREAM: The Strokes made their new album, Comedown Machine, available for early streaming.
FUN: Miley Cyrus posted a video of herself twerking in a unicorn onesie.
FUN: We chronicled several musicians’ St. Paddy’s weekend run-ins with the law.

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Bonnaroo Band of the Day: Reptar

Bonnaroo, Get To Know Bands, Music Calendar, Shows March 20, 2013 0 Comments
Posted by: Philip Obenschain

Is it just us, or does the song from the Rugrats‘ “Reptar on Ice” musical immediately get stuck in your head when you hear the band name Reptar? Just us? Cool. Reptar (the band, not the cartoon dinosaur) hails from the indie rock oasis of Athens, GA (also home to previous Bonnaroo Band of the Day Futurebirds). The band’s debut, 2012′s Body Faucet, proceeded by a much-hyped appearance at SXSW, gained the Reptar a ton of buzz throughout last year, and cemented their status as the indie pop group to watch. With the buzzy guitar juxtaposed with pulsing rhythmic sensibility of Vampire Weekend, the melodic ear of Bahamas, and the occasional psychedelic tinge of Dr. Dog, Reptar are at once deliciously poppy and densely and melodically layered and smart.

Celebrate The City: Rubblebucket, Cherub, Reptar, and On and On at War Memorial Auditorium Tonight.

Music Calendar, Shows September 28, 2012 0 Comments
Posted by: Andrew Johnson

You always wonder how the band you have grown to love is going to sound live. Every show has a different vibe, sound quality, and crowd. All these can be factors that determine how good the show is.

Well I have grown to love Rubblebucket recently. And I watched their live performance of “Came Out of a Lady” on Jimmy Kimmel Live and everything clicked: the band’s energy, the live sound, the vibe, and the crowd was clearly into it. All the key ingredients impressed. Watch the video below.

Hopefully, Rubblebucket will rock it like they did during that performance. Also playing are

Cherub. Listen to “What I Want” below

Reptar. Listen to “Sebastian” below.

On and On. Listen to “Ghosts” below.

Biologically, it’s true. You came out of lady. So, come celebrate the city and your birth tonight.

Soundland filling out its schedule…

Music Calendar, News, Shows July 29, 2011 0 Comments
Posted by: No Country

Soundland (formerly known as, Next Big Nashville) is continuing to fill out the line up for the September 21-24 festival in Nashville. We first brought the news of the initial Soundland lineup to you a few weeks ago. Well, the lineup continues to grow with the addition of Foster The People, Yelawolf, Big K.R.I.T., Cults, The Low Anthem, Cheer Up Charley Daniels, The Apache Relay, Pujol, Carl Broemel, Ben Sollee, and many more.

We’ll be talking about each of these bands in the weeks leading up to the festival to get you acquainted and to help you make your decisions. So stay tuned. But, for now, you should buy your $55 all-music wristband which will get you into all of these shows. If you plan on going to more than two, then it is a deal.

There’s a 35 song playlist below with a track from most of the artists in the lineup so far. (Chancellor Warhol, Uncle Skeleton, My So Called Band, The Cadillac Black, Erick Baker, and By Lightning! aren’t in Grooveshark). Also, beware that not all of these tracks (especially the hip-hop) are exactly safe for work. Anyway, Enjoy.

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