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As school starts back I am reminded that the year of 2011 is nearing it's end, and with that we start to look back at what music made it so special. So these are my favorites for the first half of 2011. Cults- 'Cults' I had been waiting for this album since the first single was released last summer, "Go Outside" was the perfect summer anthem and Cults continued to impress me right up to this full length. Panda Bear- 'Tomboy' Animal Collective are [...]

THURSDAY: 8/4 Summer Slaughter Tour with The Black Dahlia Murder and Dying Fetus @ Expo 5 FRIDAY: 8/5 twin cats @ headliners 8/5 Maiden radio @ Uncle Slayton's 7pm SATURDAY: 8/6 ear X-tacy After Dark: Brain TrustXERXES Coliseum SUNDAY: 8/7 Rudyard Kipling's 3rd Annual Cancer Sucks Benefit TUESDAY: 8/9 Maiden radio @ ear x-tacy 6pm -Album release show ( read review here ) Like always there is lots to do, so get to it.

for awhile I have been thinking about a 'best of the first part of 2011 releases' post, and now that we are sliding into the second half, I guess it's time to start looking back at 1ST HALF OF 2011 BEST RELEASES! Some of my favorite albums this year are remixes for some reason (Gayngs & Wugazi), and the good news is remix albums are usually free these days (and we give you the links)! and, no surprise, my favorite releases of 2011 are local releases, I think some of our local albums are blowing national [...]

One of our contributing writers Dylan, has a new album out today on bandcamp.com . it is his first release and is a 7 song EP of covers. i didn't know this, but Dylan's full name is Robert Dylan Greenwood, and he is named after Bob Dylan. So it makes since that he should pay homage to the man in which he is named after. I was named after a gravestone in a germantown cemetery, so I suppose I will one day pay homage to that man by making a similar gravestone, but hopefully not for awhile. [...]

Louisville's favorite ladies folk trio, Maiden Radio, has a new album coming out next week called 'Lullabies' and is a collection of covers and traditional classics originally recorded for band member Julia Purcell's new baby. The album is a quiet 8 songs recorded in Cheyenne Mize's attic complete with creeks and cracks that add to the theme of lulling little bitty babies off to twilight. The album starts off with an Odetta classic "Sail Away ladies" (without Odetta's howling high notes..) that will make the most sarcastic southern ex-pat nostalgic for the southeast. The album continues with one of the [...]

THURS: 7/28 teengirl fantasy @ Zanzabar 7/28 Cosa Seria @ Saints 7/28 experimental music night @ DCE FRI & SAT: 7/29-30 Kentucky Music Weekend @ Iroquois Amphitheater SAT & SUN: 7/30-31 the rumors @ horseshoe [...]

CATHERINE IRWIN (of FREAKWATER) & LOWER DENS (from Baltimore) are playing tomorrow (Wednesday), July 27th at ZANZABAR. 9 PM DOORS, $6, 21 and over. This show is presented by The Other Side of Life and Cropped Out!

"For The Love" live Hip Hop showcase was performed during the opening reception of "Summer Heat" (a show about sexuality) the newest art exhibit at Land of Tomorrow Gallery in the St. Francis Building at 233 W Broadway. break-dancers of 'For The Love' Jalin Roze (of 'For [...]

THURS: 7/21 matisyahu @ ear x-tacy 5pm/headliners 8pm FRI: 7/22 metalfest @ boondocks 7/22 Louisville Music News' Terrabeat Clultural Showcase @ The Rudyard Kipling SAT: 7/23 Summer Heat show @ LOT Gallery 7pm 7/23 metalfest part 2 @ boondocks SUN: 7/24 metalfest part 3 @ boondocks 7/24 Cosa Seria at Glassworks 9pm go on and get out there! you only live once. most likely.

Wax Fang hasn't played out in awhile. That might be why Scott Carney has been playing solo events lately. Tonight he opened for Life and Times @ Zanzabar, and just by hearing him, you almost don't realize that he isn't playing behind a full band. Looping multiple guitar sounds over top of each other to create a full mural of texture, the epic sounds we are so fond of with Wax Fang began to arise from this one man and his guitar. Scott Carney is an amazing guitarist, and the full weight of his gift is clearly visible as [...]

Zephyr Gallery will be presenting "Near and Far" An exhibition of new paintings by Matt Meers "Near" and Lynn Dunbar "Far" from August 19-September 24. Opening reception, August 19, 2011 5-9 pm with a First Friday reception September 2, 6-9pm. Matt Meers Detail. Oil on Canvas

Land Of Tomorrow Art Gallery at 3rd and broadway (in the St. Francis building) has a new show opening on saturday at 7pm, called SUMMER HEAT with over 20 regional artists including Letitia Quesenberry, Chris Radtke, Stephen Irwin, Sarah Lasley, Sarah Lyon, and myself. Summer Heat focuses on modern sexuality. Curator Joey Yates states "Summer Heat will serve as a sexual journey for the viewer allowing the gallery goer to explore their own sexuality through the works in the exhibition." The opening reception will also hold "For The Love LOT x SoS Street Art Consortium" a Hip [...]

In Preparation of the Final 2 events in the Summer 7" Series, Louisville Is For Lovers has put up the first two 7"s for order, at louisvilleisforlovers.com . The remaining copies of the limited 300 pressing are only $6 with free shipping. Second Story Man+Adventure on blue marble, and The Bad Reeds+Workers on yellow marble. R.A.D Vinyl called the series "one of the best concepts for a series I have heard" read review here . [...]

Seluah is playing tonight, July 17th, at Zanzabar with She Might Bite and DJ Matt Anthony. This will be their last show before they play 4 dates with TV On The Radio next month and will be playing quite a few songs from their upcoming full-length album. The cover is $7.

Xylos (NYC) and King Kong (Louisville) are playing the Rudyard Kipling tonite, 7/16, at 9pm. The New York Times calls Xylos " vibrant and sinister" and says singer Katy B 'sings smoothly and sweetly'. King Kong might be considered a pleasant opposite of that.. but go find out for yourself tonight at the Rud.

We know about you. you feel guilty downloading music without paying for it, but it's so easy to do, and when you think no one is looking... well, we have a solution for you. we have come across some great albums lately that the artists want you to take, and they don't want anything in return: just released thursday, Doomtree artist Cecil Otter and pal Swiss Andy have spent a year cutting and blending Wu Tang's seminal album Enter the 36 Chambers with Fugazi's landmark [...]

THURS: 7/14 tyler brant @ headliners FRI: 7/15 johnny berry @ DCE 7/15 halfway to forecastle @ waterfront 7/15 The Business and The Broken Spurs/ screening of 'The Big Lebowski' @ Executive Lawn $15 4pm SAT: 7/16 hellogoodbye @ vernon 7/16 10th Lebowski Fest - Garden Party w/Those Darlins @ Executive Strike & Spare SUN: 7/17 Seluah & Matt Anthony @ Zanzabar Get Out and Go Nuts! and if we have forgotten something, please leave it in a comment..

We have a few things to give a way right now, and today is the last day to sign up! We have TWO copies of JK Mabry's "Familiar Stranger" album to send to 2 lucky readers and TWO Tix to see Tyler Brant on 7/14 @ Headliners so leave your first name and at least last initial on the [...]

Mucca Pazza came to Headliners on thursday night, they played the show with another Chicago band Schwinntonation who seemed to be very enthused to be there, proven by the musical lesson we received about intonation, which ended up being the definition for tonality. They used different parts from bikes to execute their soft looped sounds. It was a slow performance and was a strange lead up to the main event. Mucca Pazza starts the show in the middle of the crowd, with their horns and hats running through the audience getting everyone ready for the party that was about to [...]

Last Weds, Bill Callahan, of Smog fame, played in front of a packed sweaty crowd in a small man made cavern under a hill on Lexington rd. Louisville Artist Mike Ratterman and his wife Annie hosted this small show of about 200 people in the limestone brick cavern under their home that some believe was first made to haul Cholera victims safely to Cave hill Cemetery for burial. The show was promoted by Ryan Davis of Sophomore Lounge and Ratterman, both of whom decided to keep this show quiet due to the limited space and notoriety of the headliner. [...]