I guess I really first noticed the huge influx of people asking for money on the corner of Broad and Memorial about a year ago. I, like many of you reading this, gave spare change and even significant amounts of money to people that I thought would benefit from what little I could contribute. Over [...]
What began as a “joke-type thing” among friends became one of the most hard-to-peg bands in Murfreesboro. It could be called Americana, sure, but I guess it comes down to some very dark country roots, band members’ backgrounds in metal that carry over and a liking for morbid-pop songwriting (Springsteen circa ’95-’05) that make The [...]
In the middle of the afternoon on July 27, MTSU’s Wright Music Building theater was buzzing with an atypical audience that was youthful and mostly female. This year’s Southern Girls Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp attendees, which include girls from age 10 to 17, sat front and center, talking to one another, but keeping an eye [...]
Amazon, who will finish completion of a million-square-foot distribution center along Joe B. Jackson Parkway this fall, will be taking advantage of a “PILOT” deal, saving the world’s largest online retailer over $16 million in local property taxes. The 1,000-plus full-time jobs Amazon will create has city officials excited, but small business owners are concerned [...]
CULTURE CRINGE BACK TO GHOUL BASH FRI, 8/24 @ 3 BROTHERS One of our favorite things about Culture Cringe events, besides the fact that this media group releases all kinds of cool stuff created by locals and themselves, is the possibility that a guy in a gorilla suit may be running around. Expect that at [...]
Friday, July 20, 4:10 a.m., Los Angeles, CA: I am being wired for sound. There are big, hot lights pointed in my eyes, a screen depicting the Los Angeles skyline behind me and a camera pointed at my face. In a few minutes, I will be addressing a live audience of millions of viewers on [...]
Concert series celebrates fourth anniversary with The Steeldrivers Three-hundred thirty-three feet below McMinnville’s surface in a large Cumberland Cavern titled The Volcano Room, there is a platform of bedrock dreamed several years ago to be a massive stage rising just feet above a ground. It is spread plentifully enough for many visitors to sit comfortably, watching and listening [...]
When indie band The Ghost Ballerinas were looking for the perfect cover for their album Play Me On the Radio, all they knew was that they wanted happy-looking art to reflect the tone of the record. Through Google, the band stumbled across the happiest picture they could have possibly found. It was called “A Double [...]