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A grieving son finds no justice on Rev. Maury Davis' path to redemption
By Brantley Hargrove
Published: June 18, 2009
It must be hard to watch the man who murdered your mother 30 years ago sermonize about the godly life. Ron Liles watches him gesticulate and stroll across a stage, not from a...
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Absu at The Muse
Our Evil is Eviler Than Your Evil
By Matt Sullivan
Published: June 18, 2009
In the late ’80s and early ’90s, black metal was still cutting its teeth, with the lion's share of the genre's post-Venom and Celtic Frost touchstones yet to be...
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Hot Pink Delorean at 12th and Porter
Pink is the New Back to the Future
By Sean L. Maloney
Published: June 18, 2009
They're the biggest thing to come out of Boston since Steven Tyler's lips! The most massive pronouncement since Dennis Eckersley's moustache! Spacier than Bill Lee on a...
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Billups Art Music City Mural Project
Batman Building - Night, Nashville
By Jack Silverman
Published: June 18, 2009
East Nashville's latest entry into the local arts scene, Billups Art--located behind the old Alley Cat in the alley of Woodland--will serve as a combo art space/music venue,...
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Teenage FBI Perform Guided by Voices' Alien Lanes at The Basement
Someone's Got to Tell Them Why
By Adam Gold
Published: June 18, 2009
Led by benevolent dictator Robert Pollard, lo-fi kings Guided by Voices are THE treasure-trove band for music nerds, as Pollard—who has nearly 1,000 published songs to his...
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Music City Improv at Writer's Stage
Phoenix Rising
By Martin Brady
Published: June 18, 2009
Out of the ashes of Improv Nashville Comedy Theater rises Music City Improv. Music City Improv is comprised of many of the performing members of the former company, which,...
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American Artisan Festival
Handmade
By Joe Nolan
Published: June 18, 2009
For 38 years, Nancy Saturn's American Artisan Gallery filled a niche that is becoming more difficult to discern outside of artisan hotbeds like Black Mountain, NC. Galleries...
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Summer Solstice Celebration and Family Campout
Outstanding in the Field
By Carrington Fox
Published: June 18, 2009
Celebrate the longest day of the year with the pounding of a drum circle resonating across 400 acres of farmland. The 33rd annual music festival kicks off with music workshops,...
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Rod Picott and Amanda Shires at The Bluebird
CD Release Show
By Jack Silverman
Published: June 18, 2009
Since meeting in 2006, Rod Picott and Amanda Shires have been steadily touring across the U.S. and Europe, and the significant chemistry they’ve developed is evident on...
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Hayes Carll
Brown-Headed Stranger
By Jewly Hight
Published: June 18, 2009
So far, Hayes Carll hasn’t come close to Willie Nelson’s stylistic free-ranging through jazz, Western swing and classic pop, but there are similarities between the...
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Wheels on Fire
Rollin' Down the Road
By Emily Bartlett Hines
Published: June 18, 2009
It’s difficult to describe the sound of a band like Wheels on Fire without resorting to cheap comparisons: They sound a bit like Beggars Banquet-era Rolling Stones;...
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Cory Branan
Raisin' Branan
Published: June 18, 2009
It’s been a while since the wonderfully wordy troubadour Cory Branan released an album. That’s a bummer for fans, and it also means that the only place to hear the...
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Telekinesis at The End
Not to be Confused wit Telly Savalas
By Steve Haruch
Published: June 18, 2009
The last time Telekinesis came through town, their debut album hadn’t been released yet, and the band was severely ill with something they had contracted in the seething...
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Bjork's Voltaic
Mars Voltaic
By Adam Gold
Published: June 18, 2009
Anyone who's ever seen Icelandic songstress Björk in concert will tell you that her shows are absolutely spellbinding marriages of ethereal sound and astonishing vision....
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John Vanderslice
Dandy Vandy
By Paige Richmond
Published: June 18, 2009
If there's one thing John Vanderslice knows, it's how to write a pop song. In the past nine years, he's released seven solo albums, each of them filled with catchy drumbeats,...
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Panty Raid's Tease-A-Thon and Birthday Bash
In a Wad
By Emily Bartlett Hines
Published: June 18, 2009
One would think it'd be difficult to screw up something as timelessly appealing as beautiful people gyrating in skimpy clothes. But one look at the garish g-strings, Lucite...
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Works by Courtney Ann Greenlee at The Belcourt
Subjective
By Joe Nolan
Published: June 18, 2009
If you want the inside scoop on Courtney Ann Greenlee's new show, you have to read her diary. No dear reader, we would never suggest thoughtlessly bumbling through anyone's...
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Legally Blonde the Musical at TPAC
But Who's Understudying Bruiser?
By Martin Brady
Published: June 18, 2009
TPAC's Broadway Series concludes its '08-'09 season on a potential high note, with the song-and-dance version of the movie that made Nashville native Reese Witherspoon a really...
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Lisa Gardner Reading and Signing at Davis-Kidd
Secret Thrills
By Michael Ray Taylor
Published: June 18, 2009
The latest work of Lisa Gardner, author of Say Goodbye, is a book with more twists than the Monteagle grade. Like that stretch of truck-tipping highway, The Neighbor can leave...
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Seeing Stars in Dixie at Chaffin's Dinner Theatre
Celluloid and Southern
By Martin Brady
Published: June 18, 2009
Southern charm and Hollywood history converge in Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre's major summer production. Ron Osborne's script revolves around the 1956 filming of Raintree...
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