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This coming Saturday, March 24, Nashville is being occupied by none other than Asher Roth. If you’re thinking of the rapper that came onto the music scene with his heavily-criticized debut “I Love College”, then I would expect to hear a chorus of crickets following this announcement. But if you’ve followed Roth in recent years [...]
As previously reported, four major concerts will take place March 1st in NYC, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Chicago, and if you can’t be in one of those cities on Thursday you can still be a part of the show by watching the concerts via live stream HERE. The live stream kicks off at 9PM EST/8PM CST/6PM PST.
Let us know what you think, after or during the show by tweeting us @thesilvertongue #PlotYourEscape.
Plot Your Escape performers:
New Orleans: Mary J. Blige and Gavin DeGraw
New York: Mariah Carey and P Diddy
Los Angeles: Nicki Minaj and Cee Lo Green
Chicago: Maroon 5 and Sara Bareilles
If you didn’t get your tickets today you’ll get another chance tomorrow starting at 9am EST by clicking HERE. Keep checking back with us for more details!
A friend turned me on to an artistic/political photographic endeavor called Self Evident Truths last week. Though it is not musical in nature, it is supported by many musicians (and artists, et al.) in the independent realm, deeming it worthy of mention. Self Evident Truths is a photography project started by iO Tillett Wright in [...]
Independent Hip Hop festival Paid Dues has announced it’s final lineup of over 20 acts slated to go down on April 7th, 2012. This year places an emphasis on crews and collectives that have caused major influential impact on the scene over the years such as Wu-Tang Clan, Odd Future, Dipset, Three-6-Mafia, Living Legends, Hieroglyphics, [...]
Saturday the 12th BRAND NEW play the Roundhouse, Camden, 7:30 Thursday the 16th Silver Tongue Recommends: M83 play Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 7:00 Monday the 20th THE BIG PINK play The Garage for the NME Awards, 7:00 Wednesday the 23rd PULLED APART BY HORSES, TENEBROUS LIAR and THE COMPUTERS play The Electric Ballroom, Camden, 8:00 Friday [...]
As announced via their official blog, up and coming Los Angeles ska/blues/rock band Johnny Got A Lighter? will be performing at Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak Studios in Hollywood, CA on February 16th. The venue and Aoki himself are heralded for jump starting the careers of notable acts such as Bloc Party, The Kills, Klaxons, MSTRKFT [...]
Since 1998, Red Bull Music Academy has brought up and coming producers, vocalists, DJs and various other artists together to learn and evolve their tools of the trade. Over the years, this international music festival/workshop has become a sought after opportunity with their annual meetings in locations such as Berlin, London, Melbourne, Toronto, Barcelona and [...]
With music’s biggest congregating events such as SXSW, Coachella, and Paid Dues just around the corner, add Guerilla Union’s Cypress Hill Smokeout Festival, one of the longest-running musical festivals (since 1998) to the list as well. This multi-genre music festival and medical marijuana expo will feature headlining acts Sublime, Korn and founding group Cypress Hill [...]
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