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Conference to feature live music, panel of music experts
By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Mar. 23, 2011In recent years, the easy accessibility of digital music has stifled the music industry.
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Musician Rachel Goodrich to perform at The Laboratory
By Benjamin Evans | Mar. 23, 2011For the last six years, Miami-based folk musician Rachel Goodrich has played quirky pop songs with her band, charming audiences by strumming a ukulele or guitar and bringing smiles to faces by doing kazoo riffs.
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Music festival to hit Live Oak next week
By Hannah Swerdloff | Mar. 16, 2011Locals tired of tapping their toes for spring don’t have to wait any longer: Suwannee Springfest is here.
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Upon setting off for national tour, To All My Dear Friends's Marc Hennessey recounts love for performing
By Benjamin Evans | Mar. 2, 2011"Eventually, it snapped in me one day: I gotta record this album, get on the road and play it for people."
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Local musicians get into their funk
By Tyler Francischine | Feb. 23, 2011Hide your kids, hide your wife. The Great Snooky Green is taking over.
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Record companies rethink strategies as music sales fall
By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Feb. 23, 2011The beginning of 2011 has signaled almost no signs of positive things to come for the future of the music business. The hope generated from bloated 2010 sales has all but vanished, as Warner Music Group hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to search out potential buyers for the company.
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Gainesville gets dazed by the dub
By Carter Lyles | Feb. 16, 2011The club doors open, and the immediate presence of the disc jockey is felt — the bone-rattling effects of the sub woofer penetrating every nuance, every movement, every breath within the tightly packed surroundings.
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AMPED wtith UF athletes: tennis player Sekou Bangoura
By Richard O. Stehli | Feb. 16, 2011UF sophomore Sekou Bangoura has been playing tennis since before most children know what tennis is. The Bradenton, Fla., native has 16 years of experience, which seems like no feat — until you consider that he’s 19 years old.
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AMPED: left-fielder Kelsey Bruder
By Benjamin Evans | Feb. 9, 2011Kelsey Bruder is a UF softball player who’s beefed up her personal music catalog since moving to Florida to attend UF.
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The Alligrammy Awards
By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Feb. 9, 2011Every year, national record executives and experts honor who they think are the best of the best in the music industry. Here, we’ve narrowed down Gainesville’s best — musicians who for the past year have unknowingly competed for awards in categories similar to those in the Grammys. For the first time ever, the Avenue presents its top picks for locally formed acts. We introduce to you: the Alligrammys.
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Philadelphia classic rock revivalist to spread no-frills rock message in Gainesville
By Benjamin Evans | Feb. 2, 2011As a rock critic, it can be tough to judge bands that appear on the surface to have transported themselves through time, bands that don't sound too much like one particular group of past musicians but instead have found a way to capture the spirit of a period in America's variegated and effectual music history. Unique from the everyday artist, these bands emanate an attitude and style that hoists listeners to a point in the past they may not know personally, but with the band's help, feel immediately connected to.
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AMPED with UF athletes: soccer player Sarah Chapman
Feb. 2, 2011Whether it’s before sleep, practice or a soccer match, UF midfielder Sarah Chapman loves her music. In fact, she has more than 5,000 songs in her iTunes library.
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Indie band Hellogoodbye plays in Gainesville
By THOMAS NASSIFF< | Jan. 26, 2011Just four and a half years ago, Hellogoodbye stood atop the pop music scene. The band's 2006 release, "Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!", sold more than half-a-million copies and hit the top spot of the U.S. indie charts - an impressive feat for a first record.
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Spin away the cash blues
By Benjamin Evans | Jan. 26, 2011Nielsen SoundScan released a report earlier this month indicating a 14 percent increase in vinyl record sales from 2009 to 2010, with 2.8 million albums sold last year. The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”, Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs” and The Black Keys’ “Brothers” topped the list in sales.
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Tune-up could be in store for local radio
By Benjamin Evans | Jan. 19, 2011President Barack Obama’s signing of the Local Community Radio Act earlier this month gave music fans hope for a future of more diversity on the airwaves. The act allows for the development of hundreds of low-power FM (LPFM) stations across the country — something that has been a long-standing feat for industry workers, as many believe LPFMs cause too much interference with commercial radio stations.
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The Boswellians to record first EP, perform tonight
By Tyler Francischine | Jan. 19, 2011For Gainesville rock quartet The Boswellians, the show must go on — even when it gets canceled.
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Los Angeles duo ready to rock original sunny state
By Benjamin Evans | Jan. 12, 2011Indie punk duo No Age cultivated their sound at The Smell, a now legendary all-ages venue in downtown Los Angeles. Since its opening in the late ‘90s, The Smell, formerly a Mexican grocery store, has produced some of the most creative, outside-of-the box bands of the last decade, including the highly acclaimed, sometimes bizarre but always entertaining noise rock band Health.
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Feeling the jam: Papadosio to spin through Gainesville
By Kat Bein | Nov. 3, 2010This Friday, Gainesville is getting a dose of one of Asheville, N.C.’s most up-and-coming rock forces, Papadosio, who have dedicated themselves to reinventing the jam band.
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Local bands need love, too, at the Fest
By Kat Bein | Oct. 27, 2010Come Friday, Gainesville will be flooded with out-of-towners from all over the world who come to take part in the famous Fest. But let us not forget that Gainesville owes its ability to host a huge indie festival due to its own healthy and vibrant local music culture. Ready to go local? Here are three Gainesville-bred acts you can’t miss at the Fest.
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Meet the Zombie Beatles: Bands we want to resurrect
By Jessica Poitevien | Oct. 27, 2010Let's take a trip down music's memory lane, back to a time when there was no such thing as Auto-Tune or "Glee" or Ke$ha. We had our one-hit wonders (anyone heard from Haddaway lately?) and our boy bands that produced a few albums then disappeared (B2K ring a bell?).
