Open this week's dead-tree edition of the Scene and you'll find my feature on the history of local punk fest Freakin' Weekend. The eighth and final installment of FW kicks off tonight with a show ...

Let’s not beat around the bush. Freakin’ Weekend VIII — the last hurrah for local blog and label Nashville’s Dead’s annual pre-SXSW celebration of parochial punk gone national — was pretty weird. And ...

Bruce Springsteen’s “Born To Run,” one of rock and roll’s great statements, is a song that contains multitudes. On Saturday night in Nashville, pop-punk maximalists Diarrhea Planet offered it up as a ...

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