By Fine Print Staff
A music column to review locally grown and produced albums. First installment includes The Hear Hums, Douglass Shields and the X-Factors, To All My Dear Friends, and FICK.
By Ellen McHugh
Bob Marley’s legacy is coming to Gainesville. The Wailers will perform Thursday at The Venue with a sense of purpose. “Over a billion people go to bed every night without food,” said Koolant, their new singer. “Every six seconds a child dies.” The band has teamed up with the United Nations World Food Programme, which [...]
By Kelley Coggins-Anton
Hey all. We’re pretty excited. The Fine Print is hosting A Night of Sensuous Sounds, A Benefit Show on Friday, July 23 at 9pm. Spend a night with us under the summer stars to the seductive sounds of wonderfully talented and generous local musical talents: rapper 2 Piece, Kiiks (http://www.myspace.com/kiiksmusic), James Austin of Eight Ghosts [...]
By Jessica Newman
Bill Bryson is one of the founders of Grow Radio, an online Gainesville community radio station with both musical and non-musical programming, as well as the former publisher of Satellite Magazine. He moved to Gainesville in 1992 and opened the Covered Dish, a music venue that operated for eight years. He was involved in college [...]
By Chelsea Hetelson
Powering through with Gainesville’s new folk-ska-punk band The acoustic guitar and trombone may seem like an unlikely pairing for a band, but the combination is somewhat organic, mixing Gainesville ska and Gainesville punk to create Coffee Project’s unique sound. And though the two-piece outfit didn’t plan on becoming a band, let alone staying a two-piece [...]
By Esteban O Sullivan
The SpringBoard dinner will take place on April 9 at the Matheson Museum, 513 E. University Ave. For more information, call the Civic Media Center at (352) 373-0100.
By Lauren Hershey
The power of one voice cannot be contained. The power of many proves immeasurable.
When Russell Robinson, the head of music education at UF, visited Kenya seeking someone to pursue music education at the university, he found someone whose voice was ready to soar: Duncan Wambugu.
By Matt Walsh
Matt Butcher is a singer, song-writer from Orlando and former UF student. He’s played with some of today’s most influential folk artists, including Conor Oberst and The Felice Brothers.
Go see Matt Butcher play at Common Grounds on March 19 at 9 p.m. and at the Reitz Union on April 1.
By Henry Taksier
“It was a war between gangs, where I come from,” he said. “We were foot soldiers… only the strong survived.” Tygur One, an underground rapper from east Gainesville, said music saved him from living the wrong kind of life.
By Travs Epes
Welcome back readers. I know I said that this post would explain the Internet’s importance, but Eric’s talk of betrayal got my cogs spinning in a different direction (as I hope it did to yours). It reminded me of watching The Power Rangers when I was a wee tyke and thinking, “High school’s gonna be nothing but drinking smoothies and beating up bad guys!” There were plenty of bad guys, but I never did find those smoothies. It wasn’t until college that I got to questioning this crazy hoax.