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Taylor Swift Switched to a New Genre and to a New Backstory
9 years ago Liv Carter 4
When Taylor Swift officially moved over to pop music, she made some other changes too. She moved her main residence from Nashville to New York City and apparently some people made a big deal out of that. In a recent interview with Billboard, Swift was asked about this reaction. “There has been so much talk Read More
Who Says Trash Metal Can’t Be Combined with a Fluffy Kitten?
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Who Says Trash Metal Can’t Be Combined with a Fluffy Kitten?
Thrash metal pioneers Slayer and their crew found time for my favorite good deed of all time: saving a kitten! The band’s guitar player, Kerry King, and crew members went out for dinner the day before the performance in Indianapolis, IN. A homeless man offered the group a kitten in exchange for a dollar. Assistant Read More
WMBA Exchanges Tunes for ‘Toys for Tots’
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on WMBA Exchanges Tunes for ‘Toys for Tots’
The Women’s Music Business Association (WMBA) got into the spirit of giving last night as they held the annual Tunes for Tots, a fundraiser for Toys for Tots. Livening up the occasion at City Winery were some of SESAC’s finest songwriters, but the purpose of the evening was to help provide a memorable Christmas for Read More
Sam Hunt Deploys the Humpty Dumpty Defense
9 years ago Liv Carter 2
While I am not really a purist about music genre boundaries, I can’t help but think of Lewis Carroll’s words in Alice in Wonderland whenever I hear or read an interview with Sam Hunt. In a recent chat with Rolling Stone Country, he defended himself thus: “I do think I’m country, but your definition of Read More
Twang & Round & Big & Rich [PHOTO]
9 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Twang & Round & Big & Rich [PHOTO]
Country-rap duo Twang & Round is traversing the southeast on an extensive promo tour for their new EP, Pour Another Round. Along the way they ran into country-rap trailblazers and kindred spirits, Big & Rich! For more on Twang & Round and their upcoming appearances, please visit www.twangandround.net. Read More
Melissa Etheridge Tells You How You Should Feel about Auto-Tune
10 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Melissa Etheridge Tells You How You Should Feel about Auto-Tune
There are several debates in music that I am growing increasingly weary of. The Great Auto-Tune Controversy is quite possibly at the top of that list. Melissa Etheridge is the latest artist to weigh in. Sat atop a very high horse, she wrote a short piece for Billboard essentially explaining that if you use Auto-Tune, Read More
Well, This Is One Way to Stop Ticket Scalpers…
10 years ago Liv Carter 2
When singer-songwriter Yusuf Islam found out about the extortionate prices some people were asking for tickets to one of his shows, he decided to do something about it. So he canceled his show. New York state law requires tickets to be transferable so using a paperless ticketing system which would require concertgoers to show ID Read More
The Real Issue with Brad Paisley’s Album Leaks and/or Marketing Stunt
10 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on The Real Issue with Brad Paisley’s Album Leaks and/or Marketing Stunt
Since last week Saturday, Brad Paisley has been having fun posting various bits and pieces of his upcoming album, Moonshine in the Trunk, on social media. The whole “controversy” comes complete with screenshots of e-mails and text messages from record label execs, managers, and other players in the game, asking him to stop leaking the Read More