Tag: nashville

  • Happy Elke Day! 

    Happy Elke Day! 

    Elke Celebrates Her Record Release as Meg Elsier Opens  As I stood outside The Blue Room, I felt my body battling both the 25-degree weather and the sheer excitement of the show that I was going to see.  Tonight, attached to Jack White’s Third Man Records, the shivering crowd was going to be let in…

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  • Beyoncé Bounced 

    Beyoncé Bounced 

    “Cowboy Carter” has been considered a reclamation of country music because it highlights Black artists’ contributions to the genre. Many folks had hoped that it would bring even more visibility to country Black artists.  Emmett Price III, dean of Africana studies at Berklee College of Music, said her album was “calling into question not only the…

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  • A Space Disco with The Weird Sisters 

    A Space Disco with The Weird Sisters 

    They are the self-described “Dance Commanders” and that aptly chronicles the status of their compilations.  Funk has collided with electronica and slammed danced with jazz and soul with punk-EDM and psychedelia ploughing into the onslaught. Are you getting it yet?  You will just have to listen for yourselves.  In fact, I implore you to dive into the…

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  • Catchfire takes you to the ‘Wild Side’

    Catchfire takes you to the ‘Wild Side’

    The rattling echo from the burning words and instrumentals stays with the listener even when the song is silenced.  It is now out there in the ethos for others to discover- for that is all that we can do.  We create and place our art in the world for the scavengers to find.  This track…

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  • Jon Bon Jovi Saves A Woman In Crisis 

    Jon Bon Jovi Saves A Woman In Crisis 

    Bon Jovi has worked with vulnerable people through his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which provides food, affordable housing, job training and social services to people experiencing hunger, poverty and homelessness. Bon Jovi also has had training in speaking to individuals during difficult situations. In February, Bon Jovi was recognized as the MusiCares Person of the…

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  • We Had the Time of Our Lives

    We Had the Time of Our Lives

    Green Day headlines their Savior’s Tour with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Linda’s The last time I went to see Green Day it was in September of 2021 in Seattle, Washington.  We were still coming out of pandemic and the world was different.  This was the first concert I was able to attend…

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  • Fresh Lemons : Nothing Canned

    Fresh Lemons : Nothing Canned

    The Lemonheads are an indie/alternative/punk band, originally from Boston, Massachusetts formed in 1986, and they were playing their two most successful albums tonight. The setlist was It’s A Shame About Ray which was constantly in my cars cassette player my senior year of high school (1992), and Come On Feel The Lemonheads (1996) which featured…

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  • The Music We Needed

    The Music We Needed

    At The East Room with Lily Harden, Emilio and Loose Bolts  This week has been a particularly hard one for American cohesiveness.  The former President, Donald Trump, barely dodged a bullet during a rally several days ago. Instead of banning together and realizing that violence is never the answer to resolving our conflicts we became more…

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