Top 10 Metal Bands With Names Taken From JRR Tolkien Characters

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- Top 10 Metal Bands With Names Taken From JRR Tolkien Characters
- Damn hipsters: Is Atlanta falling prey to its indie cachet?
- ‘No Line on the Horizon’ by U2
- Music may lead to teens having sex according to a new study
- CBS Goes ‘Mentalist’ Against Fox’s ‘American Idol’
- RS nline Exclusive: As Mardi Gras Rages New rleans’ Music Scene …
- The seasoned men of Horse are making the best music of their life

Top 10 Metal Bands With Names Taken From JRR Tolkien Characters
The Gauntlet CA -
This list was more of an undertaking than expected. Every damn black metal band out there sounds like it was taken from Middle Earth and it seems like there is a band for every character in the writings of JRR Tolkien. But we searched from the deep seas of Ekkaia to the highest mountains of Mordor and have this weeks top 10 list. Remember this is just bands derived from characters not locations. That will be another geeked out list. AgarwaenNargothrond T? hid is name and identity and called himself Agarwaen son of ?arth.

Damn hipsters: Is Atlanta falling prey to its indie cachet?
Creative Loafing Atlanta GA -
This month the Brooklyn-based hipster handbook Vice magazine parades through Atlanta with an onslaught of publicity to coincide with the release of the new Black Lips album 200 Million Thousand on Feb. In addition to releasing The Vice Guide to Atlanta (in the tradition of popular releases like The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll) it will also co-sponsor the epic Scion Rock Fest at the Masquerade Music Park on Feb. The lineup brings 30 of the country's premier metal bands including Boris Neurosis Atlanta's own Mastodon and more together for a free concert. The idea behind the three-pronged marketing blitz is to cast a wide net over Atlanta's masses – and alert them to what's going on right in front of their eyes.

‘No Line on the Horizon’ by U2
Los Angeles Times CA -
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Music may lead to teens having sex according to a new study
Examiner.com -
There are a variety of factors that influence decisions. " Music always seem to get a bad rap (no pun intended). Rap and metal areconstantly blamed for violence in teens.

CBS Goes ‘Mentalist’ Against Fox’s ‘American Idol’
Bloomberg -
It has evolved in the past three years toinclude character-driven plots humorous dialogue and asoundtrack that includes heavy-metal music Shane Brennan theexecutive producer said in an interview. The aim has been to attract a bigger audience especiallyyounger viewers without alienating the older crowd that had madethe show popular from the start Brennan said. ?NCIS? produced by CBS has also employed cliffhangers inlate-January episodes when ?Idol? gets under way to lure backviewers Brennan said. ?Bring It n? ?I?m happy with the timeslot? Brennan said. ?My attitudenow is kind of ?Bring it on.

RS nline Exclusive: As Mardi Gras Rages New rleans’ Music Scene …
Rolling Stone -
“With zoning law enforcement limiting live music venues grudging police support for second lines and Mardi Gras Indian parades as well as dispersed neighborhoods the street-based culture that shapes the city’s music is in danger. Fortunately some people are working to keep musicians at home and employed. ”Some of those people are behind “Musicians Bringing Musicians Home IV” a benefit for the non-profit Sweet Home New rleans (SHN) which recently brought.
Related from Walterguyband: Mardi Gras in Portland

The seasoned men of Horse are making the best music of their life
Westword C -
His early work in radio helped broaden his tastes. Stone began pulling air shifts in his home town before he could drive and one specialty show in particular at KFMX a station in Lubbock where he worked after college had a sizable influence on him. “This kid was the music director and he had a six-hour metal show Saturday nights from midnight to six in the morning” he recalls. I heard shit that I had never heard before. That’s when I got hip to a lot of Death and from then on I became just this flag-waving fan of metal. And soon Stone was rocking the Rockies at a station that had been waving that same flag for years.

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