Seven Knockout Songs About Boxers
Decorated boxer Oscar De La Hoya retired on Tuesday, ending another chapter in the long saga of the sweet science. The announcement inspired us to create this playlist of songs about the art of beating the crap out of someone.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayShakori Hills Spring Festival returns in April
In case you haven't noticed, some of the smaller music festivals are still going down and aren't in in shambles. One such event is the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance, now in its seventh year. ... read more
Found in: NewsTodd Snider to save economy with The Excitement Plan
Leave it to Todd Snider to come up with a solution to our economic crisis. After all, who needs Congress or those old dudes from the Federal Reserve System when you've got a folk singer hippie type to solve the problem?... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTodd Snider signs to Yep Roc
Todd Snider, the self-proclaimed "tree huggin', peace lovin', pot smokin', porn watchin', lazy ass hippie," has made a move of surprising responsibility and signed to Yep Roc Records. Home to Nick Lowe, The Gourds, Soundtrack of Our Lives and many others, the North Carolina label is a fitting place for the scratchy-voiced, lyrically-gifted troubadour.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTodd Snider - "Mission Accomplished"
Todd Snider's new album Peace Queer has a title that forces you to do a double take. The fan-submitted video for the song Mission Accomplished has that same quality. You can see for yourself above. Peace Queer will be available October 14th. Related Links: Myspace Page Album Stream... read more
Found in: Featured VideosListen to Todd Snider's New Album Peace Queer
Click above to listen to Peace Queer, in stores October 14th!... read more
Found in: A/VTodd Snider tours on Peace Queer
Peace-loving Tennessee singer-songwriter Todd Snider has been captured by a band of hippies and forced to sing protest songs against his will. Well, not really, but that's the story told on the cover art of his latest album, Peace Queer, which goes on sale Oct. 14.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTodd Snider bumps Peace Queer, offers download
Todd Snider's birthday is Oct. 11, and he wants to give us a present.A free download of his latest, Peace Queer, will be availible from Oct. 11-31 on his website. The eight-track EP will be available in stores on October 14, pushed back from that Aug. 19 release date we told you about a bit ago.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTodd Snider to go Peace Queer in August
Okay, so he looks a bit like Beck, twangs and rambles like John Prine or Bob Dylan, crafts a song like Arlo Guthrie and tells a deadpan joke in the vein of Zach Galifianakis... read more
Found in: Music, NewsOh Boy To Release Todd Snider Rarities
In the five years that Todd Snider was signed to Oh Boy Records, he made a name for himself as the heir apparent to the legacy of singer-songwriters in the vein of John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker. Though he’s now signed to Universal Records (on which he released 2006 LP, The Devil You Know), Oh Boy is set to drop a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks culled from Snider’s time with the Nashville-based imprint on April 3rd, 2007. Peace, Love, and Anarchy (Rarities, B-sides and Demos, Vol. 1) will feature “Snider’s songs at first blush,” according to an... read more
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