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Nashville 2220: Number 007

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Nick Hardy is an artist manager out of Nashville, Tenn and Social Media Strategist for Infinity Cat Recordings.  Reach him at nickjhardy@gmail.com & www.harrrdy.com

2-Stroke: It’s All In A Name

You may have asked yourself what a 2-stroke engine and the music business have in common.  I did too, and still didn’t have an answer as I launched my music blog. As blog posts passed, I began to see my writing style unfold.  For me, it’s not…

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Drew Wilson, formerly the man behind the curtain of WRVU’S “Loud Love” Show, is a punk rock connoisseur from New York City and one of the last of a generation who can say they grew up going to CBGB's. He moved to Nashville to get into radio and found a spot at the Vanderbilt station in 2008, where he put his training to use and took over the waves of Music City with the only punk rock show on the radio at the time. Now, in 2011, he's still playing the best of new and old punk, hardcore, and garage rock, and he's a fixture at the local shows as well as booking and promoting local bands, and keeping the volume turned to loud.

Loud Love: Keeping Up With All The Good Shows

One question we get a lot over here is “How do you hear about all these shows?” It makes sense, if you go to a lot of shows, you have to know about when and where shows will happening. If you want to go a lot of shows and aren’t…

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November Mix Tape of Awesomeness

Monthly music recommendations from the Sinizine.net crew.

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Nick Hardy is an artist manager out of Nashville, Tenn and Social Media Strategist for Infinity Cat Recordings.  Reach him at nickjhardy@gmail.com & www.harrrdy.com

2-Stroke: Battling SOPA/PIPA

This past week I was honored to be asked to go to Washington, D.C. on behalf of the Creators Freedom Project to talk to Congress about the potential implications of the Protect IP Act (Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA) that has been proposed in both…

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Drew Wilson, formerly the man behind the curtain of WRVU’S “Loud Love” Show, is a punk rock connoisseur from New York City and one of the last of a generation who can say they grew up going to CBGB's. He moved to Nashville to get into radio and found a spot at the Vanderbilt station in 2008, where he put his training to use and took over the waves of Music City with the only punk rock show on the radio at the time. Now, in 2011, he's still playing the best of new and old punk, hardcore, and garage rock, and he's a fixture at the local shows as well as booking and promoting local bands, and keeping the volume turned to loud.

Loud Love: Your Halloween Playlist

Back in the days when we hosted Nashville’s punk rock show on FM Radio, one of the most fun things was creating specialized holiday playlists. Not just any boring holiday albums but a themed playlist of favorites from the Loud Love archives.…

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Nick Hardy is an artist manager out of Nashville, Tenn and Social Media Strategist for Infinity Cat Recordings.  Reach him at nickjhardy@gmail.com & www.harrrdy.com

2-Stroke: I’m Proud To Be A Shark

You know who’s whooping their competitors ass in building brand identity and brand integrity?  GROOVESHARK!  Ya, I might be up Groovesharks ass but it’s hard not to when they are doing so many things the right way.  Outside of them offering…

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Drew Wilson, formerly the man behind the curtain of WRVU’S “Loud Love” Show, is a punk rock connoisseur from New York City and one of the last of a generation who can say they grew up going to CBGB's. He moved to Nashville to get into radio and found a spot at the Vanderbilt station in 2008, where he put his training to use and took over the waves of Music City with the only punk rock show on the radio at the time. Now, in 2011, he's still playing the best of new and old punk, hardcore, and garage rock, and he's a fixture at the local shows as well as booking and promoting local bands, and keeping the volume turned to loud.

Loud Love: cycling and re-cycling aging music

Last time we discussed the power of music and real, true examples of how music can actually change the world. One example we gave was Nirvana’s Nevermind album, which came out 20 years (and now a couple weeks) ago. It was an anniversary that…

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Nick Hardy is an artist manager out of Nashville, Tenn and Social Media Strategist for Infinity Cat Recordings.  Reach him at nickjhardy@gmail.com & www.harrrdy.com

2-Stroke: Audrey Spillman converts albums sales from YouTube cover

Following up on Audrey Spillman’s Reddit.com success for her YouTube video that gained 10,000 views in a matter of days; Audrey is having success again on Youtube. On October 7th she posted a Bon Iver cover of “Blood Bank” she shot…

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Laughsville with Greg Wood is a blog that highlghts the independent comedy scene in Nashville and finds common ground between indie music artists..

Laughsville: Riley Fox’s unique comedy style, spawned from Nashville’s underground scene, now showing in Knoxville

You might not have seen Riley Fox’s brand of humor — mixing a monologue-of-late-night-talk-show approach with the observational and philosophical humor stylings of Bill Hicks — but you’ll likely have plenty of opportunity in the…

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