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The Show On The Road Presents: Under The Radar Featuring Fantastic Negrito

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This week The Show On The Road is bringing you an episode from another podcast we think you’ll really like! This episode of Under The Radar features the truly fantastic Oakland-based artist, Fantastic Negrito.


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Under The Radar is a monthly music podcast by host and producer Celine Teo-Blockey. She’s a music journalist who writes for the longtime indie music mag, also called Under the Radar. She interviews indie songwriters and independent artists, going deep into their childhood memories and the musical milestones that have helped shape their most recent albums.

Committed to giving voice to a diverse host of artists, her guests have included gender non-conforming, Native American singer-songwriter and Black Belt Eagle Scout, Ezra Furman (who also crafted the soundtrack for the popular Netflix show Sex Education,). Other guests include Scottish band Travis and Caroline Rose, who started with an earnest country sound and evolved to electro-pop. The whole series is sound-immersive, using archival tape, field recordings, and music from the back catalogue of these artists.

Under the Radar will be back with new episodes in March 2021 and has some great guests lined up, including Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips and Emmy the Great, a Hong Kong-born British singer-songwriter.

Subscribe to Under the Radar wherever you get your podcasts to catch up on their first season and get ready for what’s to come in 2021.

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BGS 5+5: Jill Andrews

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Artist: Jill Andrews
Hometown: Raised in Johnson City, Tennessee; lives in Madison, Tennessee.
Latest album: Thirties
Personal nicknames: Jerry, Jilly, Jer

What’s your favorite memory from being on stage?

I don’t know if this is exactly my favorite, but it stands out to me as the strangest. I was at a venue in Asheville, North Carolina, playing in my old band, the everybodyfields, and there was a guy in the audience who was standing directly in front of the stage staring me down like I was his prey. In the middle of one of our slow sad ballads, he climbed onto the stage, and made a beeline for me. Just as he got within kissing distance of my face, he suddenly veered off in another direction as if being guided by some invisible puppeteer.

He was headed for a huge pile of stacked chairs in the corner of the room. He proceeded to climb them. When he was nearing the summit, they began to sway beneath him, until they could no longer withstand the weight of his body. They toppled with a loud crash and he toppled with them, all grunting and snorting. Keep in mind, this was in the middle of one of our songs. The whole room was silent. We kept singing. He was escorted out and the show went on. Apparently the whiskey was a little strong that night.

If you had to write a mission statement for your career, what would it be?

Be yourself and follow your vision.

Which elements of nature do you spend the most time with and how do those impact your work?

I love to walk in the woods. I find it to be the most peaceful place. I find energy in discovering things just below the surface of the dirt or high up in the trees. I bring that energy back home with me and it resurfaces in many creative forms: metaphors, memories, and new ways of thinking.

Since food and music go so well together, what is your dream pairing of a meal and a musician?

My favorite food is sushi. I love how vibrantly colored and how perfectly assembled it is. I love the spice of the wasabi and the sweet bite of the ginger. I think a good musical pairing with sushi would be The Flaming Lips, circa Yoshemi Battles the Pink Robots. Sushi and The Flaming Lips are both full of fanfare. There is intentional joy crafted into both presentations; confetti explosions accompany one while flavor explosions accompany the other. There is room for dreaming with both.

How often do you hide behind a character in a song or use “you” when it’s actually “me”?

Hardly ever. My songwriting basically consists of me putting my journal entries to music. I have always written from a very personal perspective. For some reason, vulnerability is where I feel most comfortable.

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Bourbon and Beyond Music Lineup Revealed

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Bourbon & Beyond, the world’s largest bourbon festival, will return to Louisville, Kentucky, on September 20-22, expanding to three days full of incredible music, unique culinary events, and unmatched experiences from the region’s best distilleries at the new Highland Festival Grounds At Kentucky Expo Center.

In total, more than 45 artists will play on three stages, including Alison Krauss, Del McCoury Band, Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, and Margo Price. The bluegrass stage will be curated by the genre’s leading authority, The Bluegrass Situation. The BGS lineup includes Greensky Bluegrass, Mipso, Amythyst Kiah, The Travelin’ McCourys, Cedric Burnside, Ben Sollee, Dustbowl Revival, Lil Smokies, Front Country, with more to be announced.

The event will be headlined by Foo Fighters, Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters (returning after originally being scheduled to appear in 2018) and the Zac Brown Band. Additional acts include John Fogerty, Daryl Hall & John Oates, and many others.

Bourbon & Beyond exclusive VIP packages, General Admission tickets, camping and hotel packages, as well as special event tickets, go on sale Friday, March 15 at 12:00 PM EDT.

The current music lineup for Bourbon & Beyond is as follows (subject to change):

Friday, September 20:
Foo Fighters, John Fogerty, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Flaming Lips, +LIVE+, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real, Greensky Bluegrass, Blackberry Smoke, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Pearl, Mipso, Amythyst Kiah

Saturday, September 21:
Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Trey Anastasio Band, Alison Krauss, Grace Potter, Squeeze, Jenny Lewis, Del McCoury Band, Samantha Fish, The White Buffalo, Maggie Rose, Patrick Droney, The Travelin’ McCourys, Cedric Burnside, Ben Sollee

Sunday, September 22:
Zac Brown Band, ZZ Top, Leon Bridges, Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros, Kurt Vile And The Violators, Margo Price, Little Steven And The Disciples Of Soul, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, White Reaper, Whiskey Myers, Southern Avenue, Caroline Jones, Dustbowl Revival, The Lil Smokies, Front Country