Celebrating the diversity of Nashville artists
Published in Fringe Radio Show.
The December 16 edition of the Fringe Radio Show with Al-D features Nick Melidis, aka DJ Rate (of The Boom Bap). During the episode the duo discuss Vitamin D, Free Delivery, the upcoming Boom Bap with Wick-It the Instigator, and the forthcoming January Nashville Fringe Festival event featuring the Grips (of G.E.D. Soul Records) and […]
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Deep Fried Five and Funkonauts will be playing a free show on Saturday, December 28th at The High Watt in Nashville, TN. There will be a live film crew, which will be filming the entire night (including everyone in the crowd!). Doors are at 9:00 pm, and The High Watt is located at 1 Cannery […]
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Published in Upcoming Shows.
While steeped in musical history, Nashville has never taken to jazz as it has other American-bred genres of music — we’ve always favored twang over trumpets. Despite the city’s hillbilly heritage, local trombonist Oscar Utterstrom seems primed to find the audience fellow instrumentalists Philip Glass and Steve Reich have enjoyed over the past few decades. […]
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Tracks featured in the December 9, 2013 episode of Fringe Radio with Al-D (featuring guests Oscar Utterstrom and Michael Whittaker). [Download MP3 file here] “Home,” the title track from Oscar’s 2008 album, Home“Prelude,” taken from Oscar’s new album, Departure“Take the High Rhodes,” from Michael Whittaker’s new album, Southern Exposure“Africa,” from Michael Whittaker’s new album, Southern […]
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Oscar Utterstrom and Michael Whittaker will be playing the Five Spot this coming December 19. Doors are at 6:00pm and the cover is $5.
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“Between sampling local funk monsters DeRobert and the Half-Truths, conscripting The Boom Bap’s DJ Rate for cuts and scratches and dropping dope rhymes over dope beats, AL-D delivers the tru-school goods with this one,” noted the Nashville Scene of Al-D’s Free Delivery in honoring it as the “Best Hip-Hop Mixtape” of 2013. “[It’s] a must-listen […]
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Video of In Mi Vida and Zasz performing at Daisy Duke’s taken by Make it Pop Creations.
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What do you get when you cross South Park, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, King of the Hill and The Ricky Gervais Show? Frankly, I’m not sure either, but you can see it for yourself at the latest installment of angel of the arts Jan Bossing’s Nashville Fringe Festival. That’s when saxophonist Chris West […]
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Video of Ponychase and El El taken by Make it Pop Creations, captured during the September 7 “Singles in September” night at The Basement.