When Billy Corgan announced that the Smashing Pumpkins would be getting back together after their break up in 2000, I responded with immediate chagrin. I knew from the get-go that James Iha would never return to the band and that D’arcy Wretzky had disappeared into the ‘90s rock ‘n’ roll [...]
Mute Math is one of those bands that I just have never paid much attention to. I listened to their album a couple of times when it came out earlier this year but quickly tossed it aside for bigger and better things. It’s not that I thought that their self-titled [...]
There’s something to be said about having your song featured on one of the omnipresent iPod commercials. Apple has a knack for finding the most infectious songs being ignored by the general public and turning them into money in the bank. Before “1234” by Feist was tossed into the national [...]
Tennessee’s smoking ban calls to mind images of restaurants and other places where families might go with their children where smoking was a typical hazard. What has rarely been considered in the ban, however, is the law’s impact on music venues and local bands around Nashville and Murfreesboro. The “Tennessee [...]
Vanderbilt’s annual Commodore Quake is only a small fraction of the university’s homecoming celebration. A celebration that, to someone who has never gone to a school with a football team, seems incomprehensible and ostentatious. But, even if it is celebrating something that some of us will never understand fully, Commodore [...]
The 36th annual Nashville Film Festival wrapped up on Thursday, April 26, leaving the city with yet another tremendously successful tribute to film. The festival played host to over 240 films with settings ranging from the streets of downtown Nashville to deep in the tragic squalor of Darfur refugee camps [...]
Belmont may be known primarily for its music business school, but the university is quickly attempting to establish itself as a center for medical training. The latest expansion of its health care programs – including physical therapy, occupational therapy and nursing – comes in the form of a school of [...]
Hidden behind the Circle K on the opposite side of Belmont Boulevard, Spun Music and Movies operated for four years in relative obscurity in the shadow of Belmont. The store was run from the top floor of a house converted into retail space, with a new age mysticism shop occupying [...]
Anytime that you mention The Shins, it seems most writers would insert a Garden State reference, but I think it’s time that we as a people stop breaking our collective neck to connect the two. Yes, the scene where Sam handed Andrew a pair of headphones blaring “New Slang” was [...]
04/19/2012
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