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  • She’s Just a Dime Store Cowgirl, but It’s Not All She’ll Ever Be

    Kacey Musgraves has experienced a meteoric rise–not just in country music, but contemporary music as we know it. She’s toured with Willie Nelson and Allison Krauss; she’s been to a ton of festivals, exposing her music to new audiences across America; and on her current press tour for Pageant Material, her latest record that dropped Read more

  • Fearless Platinum Edition: Audio

    Why Fearless Again? Why Not. You probably pre-ordered your copy of Fearless Platinum Edition from Amazon.com like I did. Amazon probably e-mailed you a coupon for this album because the industrious goods-search-engine instinctively knows how much you love Taylor Swift. So, when you received the new Fearless album with six previously unreleased recordings at work Read more

  • Greater Adoration

    TAYLOR COUNTDOWN: 2 DAYS Contrary to your belief, there are people out there who adore Taylor Swift more than I do. And they’re talented musicians. Take this one–Mary–singing “You Belong With Me” My favorite part of Mary’s performance–filled with props that Taylor, no doubt, appropriates in her real life–happens around the 35 second mark. During Read more

  • Taylor’s “Fearless” Ukulele

    TAYLOR COUNTDOWN: 5 Days Fine. Go ahead. Joke about how this 25 year-old “adult” adores a tweeny country-pop singer. Ha ha. Sure, like I said, I was a foot taller than all the other Taylor Swift fans in West Virginia. I’m hoping the demographic is slightly more vertically developed this time around. But even if Read more

  • Turn yr radio on, the program is a’startin’

    ALEX BATTLES &THE WHISKY REBELLION Any band that sings a song called “Jesus Wore Flip Flops” is my kind of band. So when I first experienced Alex Battles and the Whisky Rebellion on July 4 at the Brooklyn Museum, I knew it was love at first listen. Self-described as “roof-shaking joyful hodgepodge of honky-tonk, jump Read more

  • Countdown to Taylor at Penn State

    TAYLOR COUNTDOWN: 9 Days* On August 29, Small Hands and I are going to see Taylor Swift at the Bryce Johnson Theater at Penn State University. “Isn’t that far from New York, Nicole?” you might ask. “Why not see her locally?” If you knew anything at all, you’d realize that her Madison Square Garden Show Read more