Steve Cross To most of us grown folk, Nashville's premiere all-ages mecca RCKTWN is basically the Chuck E. Cheese of rock venues--without the beer, of course. But that's not to say it's entirely with... Continue reading "The Veronicas at Rocketown, 5/9/09" >
Saturday's "surprise guest" at the two-day parking-lot festival known as the Bamboozle was introduced with the three words "Don't," "Stop," and "Believin'," and from my vantage point in the crowd-which rendered the men muscling through four of Journey's hits onstage into something resembling very animated Berzerk robots-I thought that I was actually watching the San Francisco band collect a big, yet sorta-strange, paycheck. As it turned out, the band that I was singing along with was actually a really, really convincing tribute band . (Of course, some smart-asses out there will assert that [...]
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The Beach Boys harmonized about having "Fun, Fun, Fun". Cyndi Lauper insisted that "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun". Now, an Atlanta duo wants audiences to climb into that giant colorful teacup at the park and take a spin through 'Hey! Hey!' (Decca), the unabashedly upbeat debut album from The Love Willows – a.k.a. singer Hope Partlow and guitarist/vocalist Ryan Wilson – due for release January 27th, 2009. Watch The Love Willows video (EPK): 'Hey! Hey!', with all [...]
Chester French Chester French , moniker for the duo of DA Wallach and Maxwell Drummey , have been getting tons of press lately including a feature in Nylon , coincidence that Drummey's girlfriend just became a columnist there? Regardless, we think they're pretty rad and are excited for their debut EP, She Loves Everybody , to drop (digitally on Nov. 11th and physically the next week). Any band discovered by Pharrell Williams ( the Neptunes and N.E.R.D. ) has to be worth mention. [...]
The Love Willows caught my interest after seeing their upcoming album on a releaselist. Good stuff for everyone who likes a good pop/rock song once in a while! An Atlanta duo that wants young audiences to have fun, singer Hope Partlow and guitarist/vocalist Ryan Wilson have crafted a buoyant debut album, Hey! Hey! that is unabashedly upbeat. You might even smell the cotton candy in this collection of enjoyable pop/rockabilly tunes, like spinning through an amusement park where childlike pleasures can be found in even the simplest of rides. Not that The Love Willows doesn't speak to young adults. [...]
I don't know if it's bcause I've been sick all week, or that I'm just getting soft in my old age, but I somehow (mostly) got over my bitter disposition on this manufactured holiday and put together a mid-week mix of LOVE . The only qualifiers for this mix was that the song or artists had "love" in the name, and that the song was good. So, it's not all kisses and roses here- the whole thing starts off with the remix of A Fine Frenzy's farewell tune Almost Love r , includes Atlanta's Novah making some [...]
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