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Art for art’s sake

Posted by Matt Rankin
|Date: November 24, 2023
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Art for art’s sake

Knoxville-based Gezellig Records specializes in niche world music For Ben TO Smith, music is a calling. F ...

Knoxville-based Gezellig Records specializes in niche world music For Ben TO Smith, music is a calling. From his salaried position as a concert production manager for Live Nation (formerly AC Entertai ...

November 24, 2023
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Railbird Recovers on Day Two

Posted by Bill Foster
|Date: August 30, 2021
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Railbird Recovers on Day Two

Words and Photos by Bill Foster Well, folks, let’s get the business out of the way first: I am happy to r ...

Words and Photos by Bill Foster Well, folks, let’s get the business out of the way first: I am happy to report that the second day of Railbird Festival in Lexington, Kentucky, was a vast improvement o ...

August 30, 2021
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Railbird’s Stellar Music (In Spite of Some Challenges)

Posted by Bill Foster
|Date: August 29, 2021
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Railbird’s Stellar Music (In Spite of Some Challenges)

Words and Photos: Bill Foster Here at Blank, we try to focus on the positives. We know very well how diff ...

Words and Photos: Bill Foster Here at Blank, we try to focus on the positives. We know very well how difficult it is to put on a festival and how hard a festival team works to provide us with a good t ...

August 29, 2021
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Melissa Etheridge Ignites Tennessee Theater

Posted by BLANK
|Date: August 23, 2021
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Melissa Etheridge Ignites Tennessee Theater

Words and photography by Bill Foster Melissa Etheridge is the first musician I ever took a picture of, fi ...

Words and photography by Bill Foster Melissa Etheridge is the first musician I ever took a picture of, first at a little bar in Norfolk, VA, in 1988 or so and then when she opened a benefit at the Sco ...

August 23, 2021
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Notaroo: Exit 111 Finds its Way

Posted by BLANK
|Date: October 15, 2019
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Notaroo: Exit 111 Finds its Way

Words by Bill Foster, Jerry Hilsinger and Mack Rains. All Photos by Bill Foster “Slayer,” the shout rang ...

Words by Bill Foster, Jerry Hilsinger and Mack Rains. All Photos by Bill Foster “Slayer,” the shout rang out randomly across a field. “Yeah! F@#$% Slayer,” comes the response from three different dire ...

October 15, 2019
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Seeing Red – Day 2 of Exit 111

Posted by BLANK
|Date: October 13, 2019
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Seeing Red – Day 2 of Exit 111

The second festival at Great Stage Park hit the home stretch midway through Saturday and by most measures ...

The second festival at Great Stage Park hit the home stretch midway through Saturday and by most measures it seems to be a success. Huge crowds watched Ghost, Cheap Trick, ZZ Top and Def Leppard, whil ...

October 13, 2019
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Railbird Hits the Trifecta

Posted by BLANK
|Date: August 13, 2019
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Railbird Hits the Trifecta

Words and photos by Bill Foster With only a few minor hiccups, the inaugural Railbird Festival held at Ke ...

Words and photos by Bill Foster With only a few minor hiccups, the inaugural Railbird Festival held at Keeneland Racing Track in Lexington, KY, was a resounding success. With a mid-sized (15-20 thousa ...

August 13, 2019
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Review: Kurt Vile & The Violators with Dylan Carlson, 7/15/18

Posted by John Flannagan
|Date: July 21, 2018
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Review: Kurt Vile & The Violators with Dylan Carlson, 7/15/18

Fresh from Forecastle appearance, Vile and company bring A-game to Mill & Mine By John Flannagan Prio ...

Fresh from Forecastle appearance, Vile and company bring A-game to Mill & Mine By John Flannagan Prior to Kurt Vile and his band The Violators taking to the stage at the Mill & Mine in downtow ...

July 21, 2018
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All aboard! Forecastle sets sail with stellar variety on first day

Posted by BLANK
|Date: July 14, 2018
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All aboard! Forecastle sets sail with stellar variety on first day

Friday • Saturday • Sunday By Bill Foster, Matt Miller and Matt Rankin All photos by Bill Foster At t ...

Friday • Saturday • Sunday By Bill Foster, Matt Miller and Matt Rankin All photos by Bill Foster At this point, the BLANK staff is such an experienced, tight-knit unit when it comes to covering mu ...

July 14, 2018
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Video Review – Twenty One Pilots At Ascend Amphitheater 8/7/16 (Go See Live Music Travel Blog)

Posted by Jordan Knight
|Date: August 08, 2016
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Video Review – Twenty One Pilots At Ascend Amphitheater 8/7/16 (Go See Live Music Travel Blog)

(Go See Live Music) Nashville: Twenty One Pilots left the stage and crowd a sweaty mess following their s ...

(Go See Live Music) Nashville: Twenty One Pilots left the stage and crowd a sweaty mess following their sold out show at Ascend Amphitheater last night. The Emotional Roadshow Tour has raged on for we ...

August 08, 2016
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BLANK’S BIG EARS GUIDE and a Keith Sweat Video

Posted by BLANK
|Date: March 30, 2016
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BLANK’S BIG EARS GUIDE and a Keith Sweat Video

There's something for everyone when it comes to BIG EARS (as long as you include a video of Keith Sweat). ...

There's something for everyone when it comes to BIG EARS (as long as you include a video of Keith Sweat). MAP AND SCHEDULE BELOW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDP_dULGfGk Go ahead and hit play befo ...

March 30, 2016
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Sloss Fest Announces 2016 Lineup

Posted by Jordan Knight
|Date: March 02, 2016
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Sloss Fest Announces 2016 Lineup

Sloss Music and Arts Festival in Birmingham, Alabama is back and just dropped one heater of a lineup. The ...

Sloss Music and Arts Festival in Birmingham, Alabama is back and just dropped one heater of a lineup. The two-day music festival that takes place at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark on Saturd ...

March 02, 2016
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Organically Grown with {@Bonnaroo365}

Posted by Jordan Knight
|Date: January 29, 2016
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Organically Grown with {@Bonnaroo365}

Bonnaroo draws people from all over the world. On one magical weekend in June, on an old farm, in the mid ...

Bonnaroo draws people from all over the world. On one magical weekend in June, on an old farm, in the middle of Manchester, TN, 80,000+ people gather for a make shift family reunion. Instead of a bloo ...

January 29, 2016
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Industrial Strength: A look inside the first ever Sloss Festival

Posted by John Flannagan
|Date: June 30, 2015
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Industrial Strength: A look inside the first ever Sloss Festival

If you’re looking for an easy two-day city festival in one of the most unique back drops of any festival, ...

If you’re looking for an easy two-day city festival in one of the most unique back drops of any festival, look no further than Birmingham, Alabama’s inaugural Sloss Fest. The Sloss name is taken from ...

June 30, 2015
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The War on Drugs Comes to Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis on Spring 2015 Tour

Posted by Jordan Knight
|Date: March 01, 2015
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The War on Drugs Comes to Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis on Spring 2015 Tour

The War on Drugs are bringing their critically acclaimed "Lost In The Dream" tour to Tennessee. Stops wil ...

The War on Drugs are bringing their critically acclaimed "Lost In The Dream" tour to Tennessee. Stops will include Knoxville at The Bijou on 3/31, Chattanooga at Track 29 on 4/1 and Memphis at Minglew ...

March 01, 2015
| by Jordan Knight

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