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1. Features

   Talking With Robert Plant

   Touring the South, the legend talks about Led Zep and Alison Krauss. Mostly Krauss.

   By Rob Trucks

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Robert Plant is ebullient. For the first time in his life—specifically, day four of the current Raising Sand tour, celebrating his wildly successful 2007 album of the...

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   Glow: An Illuminated Art Event

   By Amanda Dillingham

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Grab your day-glo paint and glow sticks and head out to Untitled Artists Group's annual fundraiser. No, it’s not a rave, but a one-night-only art exhibit featuring work...

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   Music City Brewer's Festival

   By Lee Stabert

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Add together lots of stuff that’s not supposed to be good for you—beer, snacks, sun, cigars and loud music—and you have the recipe for a good time. This...

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   Sheryl Crow w/James Blunt

   By Lee Stabert

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Recently, it’s become difficult to distinguish Sheryl Crow the singer-songwriter from Sheryl Crow the celebrity—the one that rowed with Dick Cheney, dated Lance...

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   Silver Seas w/David Mead

   By Lee Stabert

   Published: July 17, 2008

   This Wednesday marks the final show in Silver Seas’ month-long residency at The Basement. Daniel Tashian & Co. (who used to go by the moniker The Bees (U.S.)) have been...

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   An Evening with The Floating Men

   By Chris Parker

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Guitarist Jeff Holmes and bassist Scot Evans’ partnership was born in a Furman jazz ensemble and it’s continued to blossomed from there. Originally a dogmatically...

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   Greyhounds w/The Spencer Garn Quartet

   By Sean L. Maloney

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Austin’s Greyhounds are purveyors of serious Texas thunder funk that falls somewhere between the Meters and classic pre-MTV ZZ Top. Dirty, fuzzed-out funk tones that could...

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   Bluegrass Nights feat. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder w/The Whites

   By Jon Weisberger

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Ricky Skaggs is hot, hot, hot these days, with three current releases: Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass serves up faithful recreations of the earliest entries in canon, Best...

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   She & Him

   By Matt Sullivan

   Published: July 17, 2008

   Originating as an email exchange between actress Zooey Deschanel and serial collaborator M. Ward, She & Him is ultimately the result of secret demos the Elf, Almost Famous and...

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    Apples In Stereo

    By Dustin Allen

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Original members of Elephant Six, the Athens, Ga., collective that churned out a few humble greats during the dominant grunge howl of the ’90s, Apples In Stereo reawakened...

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    The Long Players Perform London Calling

    By Sean L. Maloney

    Published: July 17, 2008

    To be honest, we were hoping the band would cover Sandinista and change their name to The Really Probably Too Long Yet Still Awesome Players, but our enthusiasm for The Clash...

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    Joe Davidian Trio

    By Jack Silverman

    Published: July 17, 2008

    The latest installment in our favorite-named concert series, “Snap on 2 & 4”—a tongue-in-cheek instruction for the rhythmically challenged—features this...

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    G.B.H.

    By Sean L. Maloney

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Birmingham, England’s G.B.H. are a classic, spikey-hair-and-bondage-pants hardcore punk band from the same leather-covered wave that gave us Discharge and The Exploited....

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    Richard Lloyd

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: July 17, 2008

    While Television's Tom Verlaine played guitar as if he were pecking on a typewriter without regard for typos, fellow axeman Richard Lloyd always had his fingers on the home...

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    Mashville

    By Sean L. Maloney

    Published: July 17, 2008

    We don’t think it’s a stretch to say that a large part of DJs Wick-it and Kidsmeal’s dramatic growth as artists and turntablists over the last year can be...

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    Hoofbeats In The Heartland: Civil War Cavalry In Tennessee

    By Lee Stabert

    Published: July 17, 2008

    What young girl doesn’t love ponies? What young boy doesn’t love guns and spies and, well, ponies? And lastly, what history-loving parent doesn’t go gaga over...

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    Closing the Food Gap

    By Carrington Fox

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Anyone who has driven the four miles from the long-shuttered Edgehill Piggly Wiggly to the gleaming Whole Foods in Green Hills knows what Mark Winne is talking about when he...

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    Marisol

    By Martin Brady

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Jose Rivera’s Obie-winning (off-Broadway) play—which originally debuted at the 1992 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville—is...

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    Grace of Isolation: Karen Kang, Jennifer Goss & Jacqulin Rognehaugh

    By Joe Nolan

    Published: July 17, 2008

    The latest event at Hanging Around once again puts the a-r-t in party, highlighting the work of three female artists as they explore themes of healing and restoration in places...

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    Trailer Kind of Love

    By Martin Brady

    Published: July 17, 2008

    Every so often, the White Trash Cafe, one of Music City’s favorite meat-and-three lunch spots, gets its theatrical freak on, inviting audiences to enjoy a “picnic...