Pornaoke at the Pegasus Lounge: A confusing, degenerate, enlightening...
After hearing about it for years, I finally got down to the Pegasus Lounge on a recent Wednesday for its infamous weekly Pornaoke night. CL has covered Pornaoke before, and even recognized it with a...
View ArticleAn Earful (Local Edition): WMNF nixes news for music, Merchandise play French...
Afternoons with less news and more music. That’s the gist of a SaintPetersBlog story detailing upcoming programming changes at WMNF 88.5 FM. The post cites a note distributed to interested programmers...
View ArticleThe Fuzz Factory brings underground sounds to Gulfport
Amid the surge of alternative venue spaces that have materialized in the local scene over the past few years, The Fuzz Factory is a name that keeps coming up time and time again. Co-founder John Freda...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Singer-Songwriter Night Anniversary Soiree and...
Three cheers to WMNF It’s the Music/AfterNooner host and sometime local music appreciator Amy Snider, who’s provided an intimate singer-songwriter showcase for rising talent and vets alike every...
View ArticleWatch Elvis Costello, Jim James, Marcus Mumford + more play lost Dylan songs...
The New Basement Tapes — a supergroup composed of Elvis Costello, Jim James, Marcus Mumford and others — dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to play a few songs from Lost on the River: The New...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Harpeth Rising, SALES, Clockwork Indigo & more
Lots happening in live music on this Fri., Nov. 21. Breakdown below.Harpeth Rising Crafting folk-Americana tunes with classically-trained chops and chamber music sensibility – bowed, strummed and...
View ArticleThis weekend in live music: Tampa Heights Music Festival
Lots of live music on tap this weekend before Thanksgiving. A breakdown below...SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22The Whiskey Gentry, The Higher Choir, Will Quinlan A few Atlanta-area roots-hued acts share the New...
View ArticleCharles Bradley, SPoT’s 22-year anniversary & Jackson Browne lead latest...
As Showvember starts coming to a close, the concert calendar keeps on swelling, reminding us that our disposable incomes won’t get a break in December or 2015 for that matter. There were a ton of show...
View ArticleNew Music Monday & Tuesday (Nov. 24-25): Rick Ross, Circa Survive, The Postal...
The last week of November proves somewhat light, perhaps because of all the special Record Store Day Black Friday releases due out later this week. More on those later. In the meantime, info and links...
View ArticleBenjamin Booker named in Rolling Stone’s “Hot List,” announces December 5...
Right now, Benjamin Booker is in Germany wrapping up a month-long European jaunt. His next tour — a quick whip through Australia and the UK — kicks off on January 31, but hometown fans will get one...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Anberlin Final Tour
After more than a dozen years of nearly non-stop recording and touring, Winter Haven alt rock quintet Anberlin is calling it quits: “We don’t want to fade out. We want to end with hugs and celebrate...
View ArticleTonight in pre-Thanksgiving live music: Santoros & Psychomagic, ODS Drunken...
It's the day before Thanksgiving and you know what that means: time to get down with your bad self. Because, you know, you've got Thursday off. Theoretically. Live music highlights below...Santoros...
View ArticleRise of Saturn CD Release Party this Saturday; track preview, “Nah Son Part...
More than three years after the release of Sex, Drugs and Comic Books, funky prog-hop fusion quintet Rise of Saturn has completed a follow-up EP, Enceladus Transmissions, and it sounds pretty damn...
View ArticleGratitude for good tunes: a dozen holiday albums out in 2014
This holiday season, I’ve been feeling particularly thankful for the high-quality indie record shops in town offering a welcome sanctuary from the standard-issue post-Thanksgiving shopping procedure,...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Cracker, Teach Me Equals, Christian Martin & more
A nice fatty calendar for this post-Thanksgiving Friday. Breakdown below.Cracker with Megan Jean & The KFB, Have Gun, Will Travel The post-grungy alt rock project co-led by Camper Van Beethoven...
View ArticleCL Holiday Auction 2014, week 3: Ukulele package, interview your favorite artist
Over the last five CL Holiday Auctions, CL readers have helped us raise $85,000 to benefit The Children's Home, which has been serving Bay area children and families via prevention and outreach...
View ArticleThis weekend in live music: Microgroove 3rd Anniversary Party, Every Time I...
Get your music on this weekend; breakdown of noteworthy happenings below...SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29The Porch Sessions CD Release Party with RedFeather, Radarmen A truly unique aural experience amid...
View ArticleTonight in live music: Crowbar at State Theatre
A band that’s been hailed as one of the most influential to come out of the New Orleans metal scene, Crowbar pushes a mud-caked Southern-crushed marriage of sludge, stoner and doom sounds full of...
View ArticleNew Music Tuesday! (December 2): Wu-Tang Clan, AC/DC, Mary J. Blige & more
Here comes the first week of releases for December and it's a light load this week. Info and links for the ones you want to know about most below, plus some other ones you may not have heard of (but...
View ArticleElvis Costello is coming to Clearwater
I can't admit to being more than a passing fan of the man, but I can appreciate his undeniable impact on modern rock n' roll and I am almost as excited about the announcement of Elvis Costello's new...
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