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Loving the feeling or feeling the love?

By Tranelle Maner | Feb. 13, 2019

Happy Valentine’s Day to all you lovers of life, people and all things nice. Valentine’s Day is historically a day for celebrating your relationship with your significant other and for making each other feel special and appreciated. Thankfully, over the past decade, the rise of celebrating love among people in general has increased in the world. Now more than ever, women are celebrating Galentine’s Day, which is a day for ladies to celebrate ladies. Now that the holiday is here, if you find yourself in need of a girl power pick-me-up or some mood music for that special someone, we’ve got a playlist for you.

This year’s performances include shows from Big Freedia and Japanese Breakfast.

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Changeville

By Vanessa Blankenship | Feb. 6, 2019

Changeville Music and Arts Festival is bringing around 5,000 peoplefrom all aspects of entertainment and the community to promote social change.

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Unleash your inner wild cat: Neon Liger’s 11-year anniversary

By Jackie DeFreitas | Feb. 6, 2019

On Saturday, The Wooly will hold the 11-year anniversary of Neon Liger.

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Mike Llerena & The Nerve

By Vanessa Blankenship | Jan. 29, 2019

Gainesville rock band prepares for tour.

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Q&A with The Forum

By Jackie DeFreitas | Jan. 24, 2019

Thanks to Craigslist, Gainesville’s legendary music scene welcomes a new band.

The Avenue team is obsessed with all things culture and entertainment. We want our audience to get to know us and we think one way is to share something extremely important to each of us—our music. So from now on, you'll get a playlist every week of the songs we can't get out of our heads. We hope you'll jam out to these tunes as much as we do.

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Avenue Weekly Playlist

By Tranelle Maner | Jan. 22, 2019

In 2019, it can be pretty difficult to know what music you’re missing or what artists to check out. Fear not, because the Avenue is here to give you a look into what music our staff is currently listening to on repeat.

Arrows in Action headlined at The Atlantic last Saturday and will headline a week later, Jan. 19, at Pop Punk Emo Night at The Wooly.

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Angsty days are here again: Pop Punk and Emo Night of Gainesville

By Jackie DeFreitas Avenue Staff Writer | Jan. 15, 2019

Are you already stressed about this semester? Let your emotions out and rage to pop punk and emo music Saturday night at the Wooly.

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Connect the Dots: An Artistic Collaboration

By Emma McAvoy | Jan. 15, 2019

Local artists of Gainesville will gather tonight at the Civic Media Center to represent marginalized communities.

The event this Friday will feature Florida-based artists and run until 1:45 a.m.

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Road to III Points: Gainesville

By Jackie DeFreitas | Jan. 8, 2019

The popular Miami music festival gives Gainesville a sneak peak Friday

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Upcoming concerts in Gainesville to finish out the year

By Vanessa Blankenship | Nov. 25, 2018

Robert DeLong

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The best of FEST: playlist

By Lindsey Breneman | Oct. 27, 2018

FEST is taking over Gainesville this weekend for the 17th time. With punk-rock fanatics from across the globe roaming the streets, it seems like a good time to curate some of our favorite tunes to blare when we want to headbang out our emotions. The best part? You can see every band featured on the playlist this weekend.

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The Avenue’s spooky tunes playlist

By Tranelle Maner | Oct. 4, 2018

It’s the first week of October and if you’re a major fall fan, you know it’s spooky season. Any die-hard Halloween, horror or thriller fan knows that in order to truly get into the spirit, you need to set the mood.

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Dion Dia throws successful Silent Disco party at the Civic Media Center

By Taylor McLamb | Oct. 4, 2018

Even a rainstorm couldn’t stop Dion Dia, a local music and creative collective, from bringing a refreshing twist to the nightlife scene: Silent Disco

Music lovers of all ages gathered at The Wooly to sift through countless records for vinyl treasures.

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The Wooly and Arrow’s Aim Records host Gainesville's bi-annual record fair

By Emma McAvoy | Sep. 27, 2018

Patrons bonded over some of the greatest music artists as they fumbled through vinyls

Daniel Armbruster, 33, overcame his distaste for Florida swampiness performing onstage at Flavet Field last Friday.

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Joywave overcomes its swamp hatred

By Lindsey Breneman | Sep. 11, 2018

Daniel Armbruster demanded 400 thousand retweets in exchange for a performance in Florida. He didn’t get them.

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Childish Gambino solemnly reminisces in new “Feels Like Summer” music video

By Gregory Florez | Sep. 4, 2018

“Oh, I hope we change. I really thought this world would change.”

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Skunkape celebrates its birthday with a Q&A

By Lindsey Breneman | Aug. 28, 2018

On Sept. 7, 2017, local reggae band Skunkape made its debut opening for Through the Roots at High Dive. A year later, they have a zealous fan base at each of their almost-weekly shows. I met up with the band at Downtown Billards Inc. in Ocala.

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Celebrate the birth of Queen B at The Wooly

By Tranelle Maner | Aug. 28, 2018

On Sept. 4, 2006, those numbers became etched in history as an iconic day: the release of Beyonce’s second studio album “B’Day” and the celebration of Beyonce’s birthday.

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Playlist: A VMA montage

By Tranelle Maner | Aug. 24, 2018

While the year is now more than halfway over, MTV celebrated the best of what this year had to offer in music at the VMAs.

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‘Almost Solid Light’ — The Avenue's conclusive summer playlist

By Gregory Florez | Aug. 3, 2018

This is it, Gators. The summer season is nearly over, and we’ve made a playlist to celebrate. Enjoy the last of your Popsicles and even out your suntan. Soon it will be fall, and we will all have to replace our swimsuits with sweaters.