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Zach Blumenfeld

Death Cab For Cutie Finds Beauty In Sadness At The Ryman

April 30, 2015

It’s almost like Death Cab For Cutie was born to play the Ryman Auditorium. Ben Gibbard’s lapsed ...

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Celebrating the End of Classes with Smallpools, Grizfolk, and Vinyl Theatre at Exit/In

April 22, 2015

At 3pm yesterday, I turned in the final assignment of my college career. Partially to celebrate and ...

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I Hope I Age Like Stevie Wonder

April 8, 2015

When my mom found out Stevie Wonder was coming to Nashville, she wanted me to go so badly that she ...

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Years & Years is Electrifying Britain. Next Stop, America.

March 12, 2015

  Like my colleague Brandon Bout, I made sure to catch a live show over Spring Break. ...

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Nate Banks’ Debut Single a Valentine’s Day Treat

February 14, 2015

Today belongs to the love songs.  And with his debut single "Some People," Nate Banks has made his ...

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Gentrification is taking the Music out of Music City

February 5, 2015

Nashville calls itself Music City; it’s the moniker that supposedly separates our home from ...

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Rapchat: Now YOU Can Join the Underground Rap Scene

January 22, 2015

Here at WRVU, we're all about the underground music scene, whether we're introducing you to fresh ...

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Nine Years Later, System of a Down Still “Mezmerizes” Me

November 18, 2014

It may be surprising to see a retrospective of a nine-year-old nu metal album on this blog, ...

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Shake It Off or Take It Off (of Spotify): Interpreting Taylor Swift’s Bold Move

November 4, 2014

I'm sure by now you've all heard the news: Taylor Swift has removed all of her music from Spotify. ...

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Remembering Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon

October 21, 2014

On this day nineteen years ago, four of Blind Melon's five members woke up expecting to play a show ...

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Local Acts Shine at Exit/In–Monday, October 6, 2014

October 8, 2014

Exit/In is one of Nashville's most famous and beloved venues.  One look above the bar at the wall of ...

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Periphery @Exit/In Tonight #MetalIsMusicToo

September 24, 2014

For those of you there on that fateful afternoon in Rand almost two years ago, you remember it as ...

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The Evolution of Matisyahu

September 9, 2014

Today, Vanderbilt will host its most esteemed musical visitor, excluding Rites and Quake, since ...

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Kid Freud: A Rising Vandy Band

June 2, 2014

It’s rare that you find a prodigious band coming out of Vanderbilt.  Vampire Weekend met at Columbia ...

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A First Look at the Rites of Spring Battle of the Bands

April 9, 2014

It's that time of year again at Vanderbilt.  The Student Alumni Board is passing out free shirts at ...

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Rap for a Reason: A Conversation with Shadower

March 26, 2014

It's safe to say that regardless of whether or not you think Kendrick Lamar got robbed at the ...

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Introducing…Your All-2000s Bad Music Squad!

March 12, 2014

I spent the majority of my spring break plastering the walls of a cinderblock building in the Puerto ...

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The Case Against the Star-Spangled Banner

February 19, 2014

It's Olympics time, and that means patriotism is at a relative high here in America.  So is the ...

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Super Duped: The Decline of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

February 5, 2014

If you grew up a rock music fan in the first decade of the 2000s, as I did, the Red Hot Chili ...

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Crafting the Contemporary Music Taste

January 22, 2014

Music is an inescapable fact of life.  It streams from our computers like a waterfall; it fills the ...

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Campy Music (and some other stuff)

November 11, 2013

Hey everybody, It's been one of those weekends that wasn't any sort of break from the action of ...

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