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Saturday Night: Hans Condor, Saigon Baby, Spanish Candles & Kindergarten Circus @ Local Honey

Fri Aug 29, 2:38 PM

With a nice breeze, a cool outfit and a few brews, the outdoor shows at Local Honey can be a real blast. We recommend the growlers at 12 South Taproom across the street for your beer-toting needs, but we can do nothing about your insistence on... More >>

Will Hoge Speaks

Fri Aug 29, 2:18 PM

After getting roughed up something awful in a traffic accident, Will Hoge has written a blog post about the incident and his recovery. Not for the faint of heart. Then comes Saturday. I’m a bit more together. I’m starting to see... More >>

Who's up for a Road Trip?

Fri Aug 29, 1:58 PM

As much as we try to keep our ear to the ground, apparently Clarksville's booming music scene somehow slipped past us. [Framing Hanley] remind me a lot of 30 Seconds to Mars, which is a definite compliment coming from a huge fan of Jared Leto's... More >>

Jessica Simpson Goes Country. Country Says, "No Thanks."

Fri Aug 29, 12:40 PM

Loretta Lynn, one of the bona fide original Queens of Country, has had one of the most prolific careers in country music. From humble beginnings as a coal miner's daughter, the legendary Lynn went on to be a multiple Grammy recipient, CMA... More >>

Features

  • Utterly Destructive
    Guess what, All We Seabees? I was sober.
    Thursday, August 28
    So it finally happened. Some dumbass kid had to come in and mess it up for everyone by putting another hole in the door at House House,... More >>
  • Bruce Springsteen, Nashville Cream two-year anniversary and more
    Thursday, August 28
    You are the Boss of meWe've seen the undying spirit of rock 'n' roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen. Many people forget that the legend of... More >>
  • Kid Rock
    Mondo Primo don't wanna act their age—and neither should you
    Thursday, August 28
    Never has music been stamped so clearly with a recommended age limit than the times we live in now. Maybe that's already pretty obvious to most,... More >>
  • So Addictive
    Aimee Mann on obsession, empathy and a broken world
    Thursday, August 28
    From the purely plaintive mid-'80s MTV hit "Voices Carry" through the mid-tempo minor chords highlighted in P.T. Anderson's Magnolia, Aimee... More >>
  • Good in Theory
    Theory 8 celebrates eight years of getting the word out
    Thursday, August 28
    Eight years is a long time in the music business—in 2000, Metallica was suing Napster, N*SYNC sold 2.4 million records in one week, Nelly... More >>
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela, My Morning Jacket, Oneida and more
    Thursday, August 21
    Fast y furiousWith all the sweaty rock shows we frequent, it's a rare treat to catch what laypeople refer to as "concerts" in the beautiful,... More >>
  • Hear the DJ Get Wicked
    Wick-It rocks the bells, keeps things fun
    Thursday, August 21
    DJ Wick-It's phone is ringing. It's been popping off ever since we first met up for a bit of Sunday afternoon crate-diggin' at The Groove in East... More >>
  • Moody Blues
    Matthew Perryman Jones' grown-up catharsis
    Thursday, August 21
    Get Matthew Perryman Jones talking about his two most recent albums, and you notice that the word "emotional" surfaces often, like some anthemic... More >>
  • The Boss Is Back in Town
    Through it all, Bruce Springsteen never lost his cool
    Thursday, August 21
    One of the more memorable running sketches from Ben Stiller's early '90s comedy series is "Tales of Springsteen," a satiric take on the Boss'... More >>
  • It Takes Two
    It's our birthday again, and you're invited again
    Thursday, August 21
    This is undoubtedly to be filed under toot-tooting our own horn, but I would be remiss, under any circumstances, toot-toot, if I did not mention... More >>
  • Angel in the Shadows
    New Kitty Wells exhibit gives props to a female pioneer and inimitable country singer
    Thursday, August 14
    Kitty Wells is an inimitable, bedrock American singer, and she dwelled in this country's post-World War II shadows like any other product of that... More >>
  • Conor Oberst, Festival, Bon Iver and more
    Thursday, August 14
    Oberst-ing with mediocrityParking on Cannery Row Friday night was unbelievably heinous. By the time we'd walked the three blocks from our parking... More >>
  • High Lonesome Sound
    How Jamey Johnson turned personal and professional disaster into one of the year's best country albums
    Thursday, August 14
    For Jamey Johnson, 2006 had its ups and downs. First, the Alabama-born singer-songwriter and his wife of four years split up. Then his record... More >>
  • Evening Becomes Eclectic
    My Morning Jacket to put down stakes at Riverfront
    Thursday, August 14
    Whatever gripes the thousands of concert junkies who made their way to Coffee County for Bonnaroo may have, a sure way to lure them into buying a... More >>
  • She and Him, Charlie Louvin, Grizzly Bear, Def Leppard
    Thursday, August 07
    Hymns and her Not even warm summer rain, coupled with lightning flashes that lit up The Gulch's looming condo skeletons like million-dollar... More >>
  • Ain't Miss Beehivin'
    After nearly self-destructing himself, Howard Tate makes fun of, prays for Amy Winehouse
    Thursday, August 07
    "Miss Beehive" leads off Howard Tate's new full-length Blue Day with a Chess Records groove made humorous by Nashville producer Jon Tiven's... More >>
  • Just Plain Good
    Treva Blomquist takes no detours
    Thursday, August 07
    If it's been said once, it's been said a thousand times: People—especially those who came of age during the 1980s and since—don't... More >>
  • Defying Gravity
    The Duke Spirit seriously rock, just not that seriously
    Thursday, August 07
    If The Duke Spirit were ever serious about being hardline analog purists, they got over the idea quickly. "It came out of necessity, in a way,"... More >>
  • Cut off and Unhinged
    Bon Iver takes bedroom music into the wild
    Thursday, August 07
    Holed up in a hunting cabin in the Wisconsin wilds, chopping pine in the dead of winter and spending listless hours hunched over his worn... More >>
  • Tracing Influences
    Grizzly Bear and David Vandervelde harken back while moving forward
    Thursday, July 31
    After everyone from record store clerks to The New York Times fawned over their 2006 orchestral folk masterpiece Yellow House, Brooklyn quartet... More >>

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National

Music from Coast to Coast

Broward - Palm Beach

Fire in the Bloodlines

Exploratory jazz band the Bendy Pastorius Group finds a deeper groove
Fusion. Within music, it's practically a dirty word. Though the term is intended to suggest the... More >>

Dallas

Selfishly, But Willingly

Lately, Sarah Jaffe's outdrawn the headliners she's shared bills with, and that can mean only one thing
Well, it happened again. Sarah Jaffe upstaged yet another touring act pulling through town.... More >>

Denver

Welcome to the weird, wonderful world of Bradford Cox's Deerhunter

"Everyone shits. Honestly. And everyone has fucked up things they hide. I show mine with a... More >>

Houston

Born-Again Shock Rocker (and Golfer) Alice Cooper

Spider Man
As he writes in his highly readable autobiography, Alice Cooper, Golf Monster, the father of... More >>

Kansas City

How Fred Wickham’s quest for a Waylon Jennings T-shirt led him to ownership of the country legend’s mid-’70s tour bus

Fred Wickham has two types of friends: the ones who thought he was crazy around this time last... More >>

Miami

My Morning Jacket Might Be the Best Live Band Ever

Check these guys out at The Fillmore.
I'm not sure of the exact moment when My Morning Jacket became the best live band in the world,... More >>

Phoenix

Portugal the Man brings its unique psychedelic boogie improv to Phoenix

Portugal. The Man likes spontaneity. They also like random punctuation in the middle of their... More >>

San Francisco

Tussle offers up the cream of the beat

Tussle's willingness to break rules isn't the only thing that makes it a bona fide San... More >>

St. Louis

With a new U.S. tour alongside Aimee Mann and a fresh look at their greatest hits, U.K. pop geniuses Squeeze are reunited, reinvented — and rejuvenated

When it comes to pop songwriters from the UK, several names always crop up as inspirations:... More >>

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