Please, no "Kiss a Girl" jokes when the kids are up here, k?* The big Nashvile4Africa show is tomorrow night at the Schermerhorn and features African Children's Choir, Keith Urban, Faith Hill, Big Ken... Continue reading "Keith Urban, Nashville4Africa, Les Claypool and More: Newsy Bits" >
You may have seen some news coverage on the return of layaway during these can't-afford-shit-right-now-bu t-I-still-want-it-anyway economic times. You instantly picture the layaway of yore (apparently ... Continue reading "Can't Afford Your Bonnaroo Tix? Put 'Em on Layaway!" >
International songwriting competition "SongDoor" has uh, opened its doors for submissions as of yesterday. It's an annual competition that accepts songs from all over, in all categories, with a grand ... Continue reading "Architects of Success: Don't Let the SongDoor Hit Ya on the Ass on Yer Way Out" >
First of all, watch the video above 'cuz it's got an adorable kitten trapped on a Technics 1200--maybe the greatest combination of nature and technology ever captured in flash video. Secondly, this ... Continue reading "Record Store Day: An Awesome Excuse for Kitteh Videos" >
Local funereal gloom-a-trons Nite Nite are looking for someone to gingerly reveal their drumsticks and get down to business, but like, probably in a really fey kind of way. Email them at niteniteban... Continue reading "Help Wanted: Nite Nite Needs Boom Boom" >
Toby Keith: A friend to the soldiers (though not actually a soldier)Remember the whole brouhaha last week surrounding Ethan Hawke's Rolling Stone story about Kris Kristofferson, in which he describes ... Continue reading "Apparently Someone Does Remember the Toby Keith/Kris Kristofferson Incident" >
Here's Theory 8 label head Aaron Hartley, in a guest post on the Artists Paid blog, talking about how his online presence informs and shapes his label identity: I want to be proactive online. I want ... Continue reading "Taking Twitter Mountain by Strategy: Hartley on Theory 8" >
Just like Jeebus, I'm back from the dead and ready to lay some heavy shiz on ya. It's Monday, you probably shouldn't have eaten that fourth helping of ham and it's time about time you got some exerc... Continue reading "Good Morning Campers, It's Time to THRASH!!!" >
We linked to a story claiming Jessica Simpson had been dropped from Nashville labels Columbia and Sony and as such that her future country music career was uncertain. New reports say Simpson was never... Continue reading "To Drop or Not To Drop: The Jessica Simpson Question" >
Nice and chill late Good Friday afternoon instrumental version of Wu-Tangs 'C.R.E.A.M' by the El Michels Affair who backed some of the Wu (Raekwon, GZA, U-Gold and Inspectah Deck) at SXSW. El Michaels Affair features members of The Dap Kings and Antibalas. They also have an album of Wu interpretations coming in a few weeks called Enter The 37th Chamber . This tune was featured in my Day and Night Digital section this week along with loads of other random internet things. I've updated the design too. I'm happy [...]
Consider your town owned.Prepare to get owned by Theory 8. The classy gents over at We Own This Town have just posted another podcast, and this one is dedicated solely to artists united beneath the Th... Continue reading "Fresh Tracks, Theory 8 Style: New Stuff From WOTT and Shoot the Mountain" >
The film adaptation of the story of Toby and Peter.... Continue reading "Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. Peter Cooper--The Movie" >
Technically speaking, Kris, Toby Keith has in fact worn his country's uniformI've never been quite sure what to make of Toby Keith. On the one hand, his whole redneck shtick and uber-patriotic songs l... Continue reading "Shoot the Messenger: Toby Keith vs. The Tennessean's Peter Cooper" >
Nonconformists are such, like, conformists.I've long been fascinated by fashion because it is both the ultimate armor and the ultimate vulnerability. It is the fabric that hides our naked selves, yet ... Continue reading "Exactitudes: You're So Different, Just Like Everybody Else" >
Don't use this on your next recording. (From softmachines.)Someone on a site I sometimes read recently linked to Matthew Herbert's recording manifesto, which I remember seeing a while back in a magazi... Continue reading "Do Rules Suck, or Do They Rule? (Music Dogma)" >
Guess what local musician this is?You could say this week's cover story was some 20 years in the making. It's all about the perks and pitfalls of dating musicians, something I've been doing since I wa... Continue reading "Born to Run: The Highs--And Oh So Many Lows--of Dating a Musician" >
"Look at me, I'm squinting!"* Looks like Miley "Ching Chong" Cyrus will be appearing at the Green Hills Davis-Kidd next Thursday, Apr. 9. Something to do with her book, Miles to Go. Before you sleep, ... Continue reading "Miley Cyrus, John Rich, Nylon Features and More: Use You Can Disuse" >
Last week, I had part one of the 26-song, seasonally-inspired, massive clusterfuck mix. Guess fucking what! This is part dos, just in time to send March off like a lion (or a lamb, depending on where you are I suppose). Spring rules, and I want you to have the jams I'm cranking in my car with the windows down and rims still spinnin'. Below are 15 more songs that are one million times better than the new Phoenix or St. Vincent or Lykke Li albums (or whatever the other blogs are poppin' boners for). Fuck that shit. String Band, [...]
It gets kind of rough in the back of this vehicle. Sure, local venue 12th & Porter went through some tough times--even getting shut down at one point--but those are in the past, and the new ownership ... Continue reading "12th & Porter Wants to Be Your Favorite Nashville Venue" >
The new Cortney Tidwell website is up at feverqueen.com. Her new album Boys will be out* on City Slang around the beginning of June, and you can download the song "17 Horses" over at the City Slang si... Continue reading "Cortney Tidwell: New Website, Europe Dates w/Beth Orton, Andrew Bird" >
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[News] Kanye West to Release New Album 'Yeezus' on June 18th
