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Reckless Kelly Announces First Celebrity Softball Jam
Reckless Kelly announced their first Celebrity Softball Jam yesterday. It’ll take place Sunday, April 19 at the Dell Diamond in Round Rock, TX and will benefit Miracle League at Town & Country, South Austin Little League, and a scholarship fund for the Austin Elks. The actual game will feature national and local celebrities along with [...]
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Taylor Swift Monopolizes Top Two Spots On Country Album Sales Chart
The top two spots on the country album sales chart this week belong to teen-phenom Taylor Swift for her exclusive Wal-Mart CD/DVD combo Beautiful Eyes and her self-titled debut album. So in this case, does that make third place the first loser?
Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush describe their experience rolling over the top of their [...]Continue reading "Taylor Swift Monopolizes Top Two Spots On Country Album Sales Chart"
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A Few Albums Worth Checking Out
I’ve listened to a lot of music in the past month that’s worth recommending and have thus compiled a list of a few of the albums I have acquired myself. I’ll be doing some recommendations like this every so often just so people get a sense of the type of music I like and that [...]
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Four Brothers, Two Great Bands
Michael Corcoran has a wonderful article that he wrote for a cover story on Austin360. It’s a story of four brother who played in their father’s band as they were growing up in Idaho. The father himself was in an all-brother band as well. Later on, two of the brothers split to pursue more of [...]
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